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WhatsApp Video Calling Is Here, Optimised for India’s Connectivity Issues

srijita
Last updated: 2016/11/15 at 6:54 AM
By srijita 3 Min Read
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WhatsApp Video Calling Is Here, Optimised for India's Connectivity Issues

 

Starting today, WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app in India, will let you make video calls; just like FaceTime and Skype, the calls will be free, though if you aren’t on Wi-Fi you may have of coure to pay for cellular data usage, depending on your plan. WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum said in an interview to Reuters that video calls will be rolled out to 180 countries within hours after the feature is introduced at the event in India.

WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, also announced that it has over 160 monthly million active users in India, making the country its biggest market. WhatsApp says the new video calling service is optimised to work in regions like India, where users often struggle with poor Internet connectivity. “[…] we want to make these features available to everyone, not just those who can afford the most expensive new phones or live in countries with the best cellular networks,” WhatsApp added.
“We’re obsessed with making sure that voice and video work well even on low-end phones,” Koum said.

The feature is being gradually rolled out to all WhatsApp users worldwide on iPhone, Android, and Windows phones. WhatsApp had rolled out the video-calling feature to select users via the WhatsApp beta app on Android and Windows last month, when some users in India and other countries got access.

The video feature will work just like WhatsApp voice calls – when you press the little phone button on a person’s profile, WhatsApp will ask you if you want to make a voice call or a video call. WhatsApp video-calling will be available to all users running the latest version of the app, and if you are running a previous version, you are advised to update to the latest one. If you don’t see the WhatsApp video calling feature, you can get access by following these steps.

A company representative told NDTV that WhatsApp video calls, just like messages and voice calls, will be end-to-end encrypted, which means third parties like law enforcement agencies cannot listen to your conversations.

With the addition of video calling, WhatsApp will compete with the likes of Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft-owned Skype, and Google’s newly launched Duo – among others – for a share of the video calling market. WhatsApp started as a text messaging service, and as its popularity grew, it has added features like voice calling – introduced in March last year – and now it has added video calling.
[“source-ndtv”]

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srijita November 15, 2016
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