WhatsApp, with its humble roots at a time Nokia mobiles were dominant, has now become embedded in the lives of almost every mobile user. Facebook knew the future of the inter-platform messaging service when it paid big cash for its ownership.
WhatsApp made available a web-based interface to augment its mobile application. Thus, having your WhatsApp with your work computer is as easy and discreet as opening a new web browser tab. The advantages of the web interface include the convenience of a physical large keyboard to quickly type messages, upload work files.
This convenience should not be overlooked as WhatsApp has become the tool of choice among colleagues in offices, with remote teams.
If the users of WhatsApp could ask for something which they find missing from their mobile app, it would be voice and video calls, to individuals and conference.
A website, WABetaInfo, maintained to look into the upcoming updates of WhatsApp has observed the in-progress implementation of voice and video calls, which obviously cost nothing more than the Internet data being used.
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The website has looked under the hood of the newly released WhatsApp update (updating to version 2.2043.7) and found implementation of the features, which were marked as being in beta stage of software development.
Beta stage in software development is used to mark those functionalities which have their features completely implemented but have many known and unknown bugs, speed or storage issues, and may crash or result in user data loss. Due to these reasons, a beta stage software is never released for general usage.
“We have already announced that WhatsApp was working on Calls. Today we are happy to announce new details, provided from the WhatsApp Web 2.2043.7 update! WhatsApp is considering the idea to offer Voice and Video Calls in the next few weeks, even if the development is in a beta-stage”, reports the website in an update.
The website claims that the feature should be made available in a few weeks from now, so we can expect by early November.