Our ever lovely Whatsapp is now available on the Web. Please read along...


To provide you with a richer communication experience, WhatsApp is now accessible both on your phone and your computer. WhatsApp Web is a computer based extension of the WhatsApp account on your phone. The messages you send and receive are fully synced between your phone and your computer, and you can see all messages on both devices. Any action you take on the phone will apply to WhatsApp Web and vice versa. At this time, WhatsApp Web is available only for Android, Windows Phone 8.0 and 8.1, Nokia S60, Nokia S40 Single SIM EVO, BlackBerry and BB10 smartphones.

WhatsApp Web is not another WhatsApp account. When you use WhatsApp on your computer and your phone, you are simply accessing the same account on these two devices.

There are a few minimum requirements to enjoy WhatsApp Web:

You need to have an active WhatsApp account on your phone.
You need to have a stable internet connection on both your phone and your computer.
You need to use the latest version of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Opera as your web browser.
To get started with WhatsApp Web you must first pair your phone and computer:

Visit web.whatsapp.com on your computer.
Open WhatsApp on your phone and go to Menu > WhatsApp Web.
Scan the QR Code on your computer.
From your phone, navigate to WhatsApp Web to view your Logged in computers or to logout from an active WhatsApp Web session.

Culled from http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/web/28080003


Photo credit: Me, i had to erase my contact details.

My personal experience on the new whatsapp web;

1. All your chats on the web app will appear on your phone (for those of you that want to be hiding chats sorry you cant)

2. Once your phone goes out of data coverage, your whatsapp web will not work.

3. Once you delete a chat from whatsapp web, it gets deleted from your phone immediately.

4. The only interesting part for me is the QRcode scan where you will be required to use your whatsapp on your phone to scan the QR on your computer screen and whazzzam... you get logged in immediately.

5. Please also note that you need the latest update of whatsapp on your phone before you can use web. The recent version has whatsapp web under "settings" menu


Enjoy!!!

Thanks

alienvirus:
Thanks

You are welcome. Give it a try...

Still having to make sure both devices are connected to the internet is still a drawback. Why can't I simply access my whatsapp account when my phone is not functioning or out of reach?

Cool

Exactly, I am drawn back by this alone. Why have both devices to be synced before i can chat. At least if they had made it such that i can chat on web and when my phone is connected to the internet, then the messages can sync.

well i hope they will modify this and come with something more appealing.

dragnet:
Still having to make sure both devices are connected to the internet is still a drawback. Why can't I simply access my whatsapp account when my phone is not functioning or out of reach?