Revelation: WhatsApp lets Blackberry, Nokia and other smartphones – EN Official

One of the most popular chat apps, WhatsApp, will leave working the Blackberry in some Nokia’s and many other smartphones. In a statement, the company that manages the messaging service explained that the equipment does not have capacity for updates

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If you use WhatsApp a Blackberry preparing to stop to have:. by the end of this year the messaging service will cease to function

in addition to BlackBerry devices, the app will help work on some Nokia devices (such as S40 and S60) and on devices with Android 2.1, Android 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1.

in a statement posted on the website, the company that manages the WhatsApp (one service purchased by Facebook for two years) justified the decision with the “lack of capacity” of devices to withstand updates

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“When we started in WhatsApp 2009, the way people used smartphones was quite different than it is today, “said the company, noting that then Apple had just released the App Store” about 70 percent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems developed by Blackberry and Nokia. “

over these seven years, technologies have evolved and apps too, so the smartphone then as the Blackberry,” do not have the required capacity so that we can expand resources of our application in the future. “

Those who want to continue using WhatsApp will need to purchase a smartphone” Android, Apple or Windows latest Phone before the end of 2016, “added the company, in the same statement .

the messaging service, which has more than one billion active users, was created in 2009 by Jan Koum and Brian Acton, who sold WhatsApp to Facebook for 19 billion dollars, about 17 , 4 billion

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