Nice one. Now one can have meetings with more colleagues, easily too

WA should overhaul the UI not increasing number of Video call participants

Call conferencing

BusinessInflux:
WHATSAPP, The American freeware, cross-platform messaging and Voice over Internet Protocol (IP) service owned by Facebook has gone a step further, making it possible for its video call feature to admit as much as eight people simultaneously in a call.

Users of Android and iPhone can now add twice the previous number of people allowed in a video call on WhatsApp.

Facebook, the parent company of WhatsApp disclosed the latest quirk in a Video Call News last week. According to the report, the Video Call upgrade is now accessible for iOS and Andriod device users running the newest model of the application.

The new quirk on WhatsApp, which at the moment is the most actively used messaging application with over 2 billion users around the globe, provides a more suitable substitute for other Conference call platforms like Zoom, Houseparty, FaceTime, as well as Skype.

Nevertheless, though WhatsApp still dawdles with some of the big players in the game like Google Duo which allows 12 calls at a time; Google Meet with as much as 100 people for private users and 250 for business and educational purposes; Apple's FaceTime allowing 32 callers and Zoom permitting 500 callers on priced premium, the messaging app-WhatsApp is now in the category with Houseparty allowing 8 callers as well.

Also, the video call upgrade on WhatsApp is not exempted from the end-to-end encryption security that the app adopts to prevent externals including WhatsApp itself from viewing or listening to personal conversations. With the issues of cyber hacking, this upgrade is just right on time.

While the world is on lockdown from the Coronavirus pandemic, video call applications and platforms have become a basic necessity for catch-ups with family and friends as well as for business and educational communications.

WhatsApp's parent company, Facebook also recently introduced Messenger Rooms on Facebook which allows for shared videos and text conversations by a large group.
Contacts outside and across the Facebook family of apps such as Facebook Messanger, Instagram and WhatsApp can be drafted to Messenger Rooms allowing for as much as 50 persons to communicate at the same time.

Messenger Rooms can be created on Facebook Messenger or Facebook itself, either the application or website version. The highlight of some of Messenger Rooms' features includes the use of Augmented Reality (AR) to adjust on-screen looks, 360-degree backgrounds that include a giant ball pit, a black hole and more, adjustable lighting mode to improve video calls.

https://businessinflux.com/2020/05/01/whatsapp-video-call-upgraded-to-8-calls-per-user/

Are you serious?

Good one

After this corona period,many business will be badly affected.
Some will break Even, many will loose their job.
Computer scientists will take over.

Great development from th Facebook team

Ok

happy new year

Old news

I could see alot are contestin 4 FTC,.....see wot dey typin jst to b 1st........A J T Y OK OK OK

Zuckerberg trying to compete with Zoom.

Same thing with his new Facebook Messenger Rooms

That man is a shameless tech copycat.

Roon9:
I didn't even know I could add one more person sef

u won't believe I didn't know too

Good development.

bolaayenimo:
They want to compete with Zoom

Which one is zoom abeg?

Data syphon

i am just so fortunate to be born in this generation..ask me y..cos by next century or in a better explanative term in the year 2100 the difference in scientific exploitations or advancement wont be more than 15% apgrades compare to the reverse..

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Long over due self, they were really slow on this development.
Good they made it sha

good and nice

Is It Not Vanity In Line ?
We Can Now Run Up And Down The World Without Contact,

obaro85:
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idiot.
common gerara here

Nah data go suffer for all this.

been off what's app 4 almost 3years nah! am good ....ovoko

temmypotter:
Well, it's what Mark is, I used to Adore the guy but these days he is coming across more like his critics paint him, a poacher and copy machine.

For Crissakes! Zoom has been out there forever, suddenly because there's a boost in the need for remote conferencing and zoom seems to be finally making some nice Buck, Mark wants to benefit and in so doing destroy Zoom, watch it, Facebook might make an acquisition offer for zoom and if they don't bend, baba will do what he's done to Snapchat to them

The only true Innovative genius we have in the world today is Elon Musk! A revolutionary who appears once in every 100 years, the remaining big tech CEOS are sellouts. Full stop

......larry Page

Nice �

I see people comparing Zoom and WhatsApp...

I believe they serve different purposes.

Zoom is quite official and used by many coys for interviews, meetings, trainings etc. Zoom is more centralized, you have a host thay controls what happens.

WhatsApp isn't that way. You wanna quickly call some of your friends and gist? WhatsApp is your guy.

So I don't see a need for any comparison. Zoom accommodates about 50 people in a room. There are even breakout rooms in Zoom.

What exactly is bad in WhatsApp updating their app? For Christ sake, it is a business.

Good development..
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