WhatsApp will stop working on old smartphones
Evolution has a price, and some users of WhatsApp will begin to pay for it from 2017 when they can no longer use this application. And no, it does not mean that the messaging application will cost money again, as it did in its origins, but rather that will stop giving support for older mobiles. No possibility of updating them or sending messages to them.And it is that having an updated application and an outdated mobile is not only contradictory, it is also insecure, inefficient and, starting next year, unfeasible for WhatsApp
Thus, WhatsApp will start notifying users with mobile phones Android 2.1 and 2.2 , as well as owners of the Nokia S40 and Symbian S60, the BlackBerry devices and terminals Windows Phone 7.1, which, “unfortunately, after December 31, 2016, you will not be able to continue using WhatsApp on this phone as it will no longer be compatible with WhatsApp” A message that is now ready to be sent to all these users to alert them of the policy change.
Although the news is not really new, since the intentions of WhatsApp were published in form official last April, now take on an irrefutable character.Thus, although WhatsApp had already informed about the need to stop supporting these terminals in order to continue advancing in its history , now it's your translation platform telling us how you will remind users of the application that they have to change mobile if they want to continue using this messaging service.
The message has been seen on the WhatsApp translation platform, where volunteer users apply their linguistic knowledge to translate each button, default message and option available in app. A good source of news that informs about what is to come, and that in this case is the announcement of the inevitable
This message reflects the end of support for said mobiles Something that will prevent the use of the application, completely cutting the relationship with the service and presumably preventing the sending and arrival of new messages, photos, calls and other communications.However, another message variable seen in this translation platform would also show an elink to an information page so that the user can find out which mobiles and platforms do have WhatsApp support A simple help to know where to start when changing mobile
Now this WhatsApp ad shouldn't scare off too many users. And it is that, taking into account only the platform Android, the versions 2.1 and 2.2 only are present in 0, 1% of active mobile phones today, according to some reference websites. Something that should not affect too large a number of people. For its part, the Symbian platform from Nokia and BlackBerry have long since been left aside by the market itself, as has Windows Phone 7.1, whose percentage of users is negligible.
In short, a necessary evil to allow WhatsApp to continue evolving And it is difficult to increase security barriers and continue creating new features when you have to think about platforms that have become outdated and relegated to a very small number of users.
