Thoughts about my free iphone app - WhatsApp
May 20, 2014, 8:16 pm
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May 21, 2014, 8:35 am
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I am not talking about voice/video chat; I only use it for group or 1-1 MMS. WhatsApp is very smooth and works very well with pictures and group txt. I am not even sure if Skype could group txt, but Skype message notification doesn't seem to work most of the time unless you have Skype running in the background. Facebook works better at least with the notification, but you need to setup Facebook account. Oh well it is what it is.
May 21, 2014, 10:10 am
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I don't understand why WhatsApp cannot be installed on iPads. We have a family of mixed iPhones and Android phones and we all use WhatsApp to group chat. But most of us also got iPads. iMessages go to both iPhones and iPads, so why can't WhatsApp do the same? Facebook Messenger can do the same thing and Facebook owns WhatsApp now.. so why can't WhatsApp run on iPad without going thru jailbreak or a weird process of using ifunbox?
I think it's purely because your WhatsApp account is based on/linked to your cellphone number. iPads and other wifi or even most LTE tablets don't have the telephony bits to to verify with WhatsApp with your cellphone number. They would need to add some other form of account login for you to use it on multiple devices.
May 21, 2014, 12:27 pm
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I think it's purely because your WhatsApp account is based on/linked to your cellphone number. iPads and other wifi or even most LTE tablets don't have the telephony bits to to verify with WhatsApp with your cellphone number. They would need to add some other form of account login for you to use it on multiple devices.
May 21, 2014, 1:08 pm
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All they have to do is to TEXT another code to my phone number and I could just enter it on the iPad app. It is what they will have to do if I switch phone right? I am not trying to set up a new account on the iPad.. just want it to have the same Whatsapp account as the iPhone. Kind of like iMessage goes to both iPhone and iPad using the same account.
Jul 19, 2014, 10:33 pm
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just came across this thread. wow, all this time WA was created by an FTer and didnt even know. congrats Jan and co!
have a story about how profoundly impactful this app alone has been on some people's lives. my sister for example upgraded her iPhone 3G to a 5S last Fall merely to use WA. she was late to the game and new WA updates caused older devices to not be supported any longer for new installs/accounts. and she was tired of using the iFunBox workaround lol so she went ahead and splurged on a new iDevice JUST to use WA (in her own words.)
have a story about how profoundly impactful this app alone has been on some people's lives. my sister for example upgraded her iPhone 3G to a 5S last Fall merely to use WA. she was late to the game and new WA updates caused older devices to not be supported any longer for new installs/accounts. and she was tired of using the iFunBox workaround lol so she went ahead and splurged on a new iDevice JUST to use WA (in her own words.)
Aug 25, 2014, 8:40 pm
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Aug 25, 2014, 9:29 pm
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This post has had a lot more comments in the past few months than it did when it was originally posted
Apr 22, 2015, 9:59 am
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I just received my first Whatsapp voice call today. Both parties downloaded the latest IOS update today and the call was between Australia and France. The Australia side was on WiFi and the French side on 4G. The quality was perfect. ^
Apr 22, 2015, 12:38 pm
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cool, glad it worked well. we are still in the process of rolling out VoIP on iOS and still have a lot of VoIP improvements to make.
Apr 22, 2015, 12:49 pm
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But other than that, it seems the fundamentals are fine as far as I can tell.