WhatsApp will allow free calls before summer
At the Mobile World Congess in Barcelona, the most important fair of the year in which the main brands present their new space for the applications that fill said terminals with possibilities. The person in charge of one of the most publicized and widespread did not want to miss this event. We are referring to Jan Koum, CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp, who has participated in one of the conferences dropping one of the headlines of the day: WhatsApp will have the possibility of making calls in the second quarter of the year
Thus, during his speech, in which he discussed the rapid change in the business model and current technology, he hinted at the next step for the the world's most widespread messaging application In this way, stating that the arrival date would be for before summer, the The application will give voice another chance by including user-to-user calls over the Internet A logical step in the evolution of WhatsApp that would allow it to get rid of a large number of competitors like the application Viber, which defended itself in the market for its calls VoIP and its new service Viber Out of calls to landlines, compared to WhatsApp
Koum has not specified more details about this function. Only that it will arrive at first both the version for iPhone and Android for before the summer, with the following terminals on the list being Nokia and BlackBerry in the future still undetermined.However, the characteristics of these calls are not known, nor how they will be integrated into the application. And we must not lose sight of the fact that users already have the function Push To Talk, a useful way of sending voice messages, but which is still a unidirectional channel.
Some media dare to predict that, after the purchase by Facebook, this new function could arrive as an additionfor which we would have to pay Something to which WhatsApp we are not used to, always betting on the simplicity. However, new subscription model is suggested to be able to make use of these calls. Something that of course has not been confirmed and that for the moment are nothing more than rumors after the new alliance Facebook-WhatsApp
However Koum has emphasized at various times in his speech that the courier service, in the same way that has happened withInstagram, remains independent In fact, its has not changed one iota privacy policies or its operation Although apparently it is not enough for the supposed four million of users that some media calculate that migrated to Telegram after the ruling suffered last Saturday, plus those who fear that their privacy will be violated after the entry of Facebookon stage.
What is clear is that WhatsApp continues to be the preferred messaging tool for the majority of users smartphones Specifically, there are already more than 465 million users all over the planet, of which 330 million are daily users, according to the media outlet TechCrunch
