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Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by Areolad: 10:49am On Nov 12, 2016 |
WhatsApp is to end support for a number of operating systems including Blackberry 10, Nokia Symbian S60 and Windows Phone 7.1. The company said it wanted to focus development "on the mobile platforms the vast majority of people use". Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which is used by a billion people worldwide, will stop working on the named operating systems by December 2016. But it will still work on Blackberry's latest smartphone which runs Android. Legacy Most of the operating systems that WhatsApp is dropping support for are legacy operating systems, which are no longer updated or installed on new devices. The exception is Blackberry 10, which was launched in January 2013 and is still being developed by Blackberry. Blackberry 10 was launched in January 2013 However, the operating system has failed to gain traction with smartphone users and now accounts for less than 1% of the market. There had been speculation that the handset-maker would wind down support for Blackberry 10 after it released a smartphone running Android, and closed its "Built for Blackberry" programme for app developers. But the company told the BBC: "BlackBerry is committed to our BlackBerry 10 operating system, and we work closely with developers to create and deploy solutions to bring apps to our consumer and enterprise fans. "While the app landscape continues to evolve, our commitment to BlackBerry 10 and our developers is unwavering. "We are actively exploring alternatives for BlackBerry users once support of WhatsApp Messenger for BBOS and BlackBerry 10 ends in late 2016." The full list of operating systems WhatsApp will stop supporting is: Android 2.1 and Android 2.2 Blackberry OS 7 and earlier Blackberry 10 Nokia S40 Nokia Symbian S60 Windows Phone 7.1 "While these mobile devices have been an important part of our story, they don't offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app's features in the future," WhatsApp said in a blogpost. "When we started WhatsApp in 2009... about 70 percent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia." The firm said mobile operating systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft accounted for 99.5% of sales today http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35686613 |
Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by DaddySLY(m): 10:50am On Nov 12, 2016 |
if na curse...i reject am |
Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by Areolad: 11:10am On Nov 12, 2016 |
DaddySLY: Wake up, you've been dreaming 1 Like |
Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by lonelyisland(m): 11:22am On Nov 12, 2016 |
got this msg from mtn this morning...
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Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by Joshkid(m): 11:28am On Nov 12, 2016 |
lonelyisland:what's your phone's model? |
Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by lonelyisland(m): 11:51am On Nov 12, 2016 |
Joshkid:windows 8.1... i just went through the phone section and i saw that it's for windows 7 and secondly mtn is sending it to all there ntwrk users |
Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by Joshkid(m): 12:29pm On Nov 12, 2016 |
lonelyisland:another case I heard was that the guy was using infinix hot note lollipop but mtn sent him the same msg because he's using bb imei |
Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by directonpc(m): 12:41pm On Nov 12, 2016 |
Why panic when you can get a super android phone like Xiaomi-redmi 4a for an affordable price. |
Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by donMIG(m): 3:26pm On Nov 12, 2016 |
No b only me dem send d msg abi...thank God My fone na android 5.1 na....wasnt mentioned....but yet i got d msg From mtn sef ooo....dia papa Whatsapp oo or no whatsapp we go still keep in touch....fucktards! |
Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by donMIG(m): 3:28pm On Nov 12, 2016 |
Joshkid:lol So accurate but i suppose its not me I have a rooted infinix hot note android 5.1...rcvd d msg today |
Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by Dandsome: 6:45pm On Nov 12, 2016 |
Areolad: Thank God am still married to my Tecno phone |
Re: Your Phone Will No Longer Support Whatsapp In December by KingBelieve: 3:46am On Nov 13, 2016 |
I no fit buy phone for January because of Whatsapp, no I can't 1 Like |
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