Owners of mobile phones based on Windows Phone 7 can now breathe easy: the popular application WhatsApp has already landed on the Marketplace (the store of downloadable utilities dedicated to the Microsoft operating system for smartphones).
As in the rest of the platforms where it already works, WhatsApp for Windows Phone 7 is released for free, giving the option to communicate with other users who use the same application through push instant messaging. In other words, it works like a traditional program, with the exception that the notifications on the screen behave, for practical purposes, as we receive an SMS message from a lifetime (but without billing for each block sent).
The application allows us to send messages to all phones that have WhatsApp, regardless of the operating system in which the application is installed. Thus, users who download WhatsApp on their Windows Phone, will be able to communicate with others that operate with Android, iOS (iPhone) or Symbian.
The only requirement that users must meet to download and install WhatsApp on their Windows Phone is to have the latest version of the system, called Mango. There is already a version swarming the network for those who want to install it manually in some compatible terminals (such as the HTC 7 Trophy), and it is said that in France, devices that work with this platform and have Orange firmware would also be available. the gates start to update.
In any case, you can use a beta (a version of tests) of WhatsApp for Windows Phone 7 (the current version, not the one we know as Mango), although does not have all the functions that we would meet in the final edition this utility does offer many of the possibilities that the famous multiplatform application will provide.
The arrival of WhatsApp was called into question when Microsoft first announced the purchase of Skype and, later, the indirect acquisition of GroupMe. With this, it came to be thought that those in Redmond would bet on their own mobile messaging system, although they have finally chosen to develop a joint strategy, combining a dedicated application (while remaining multiplatform, such as Skype) with a program present in other ecosystems.
