WhatsApp Messenger

WhatsApp is a messenger application for iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Symbian. It offers features like Blackberry Messenger (or fully imitating?). Okay, imitating or not doesn’t matter, but we can free ourselves from the exclusivity of BlackBerry Messenger.

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But, okay, we’re gonna go to it deeper through this post.

 

Identification

While Blackberry Messenger uses Blackberry Device PIN for identifying each user, WhatsApp will use your phone number (including country code) to identify yourself. This lead some concern, but it’s okay, if you’re not too exhibitionists and want to use it among your friends, this is still okay. However, there’s a way to make a fake PIN. Google it, I don’t want to share it.

Adding Users

WhatsApp will check your contacts and checks the number. If the number already on WhatsApp’s database, your contacts will be shown on the WhatsApp. If you want to add users, simply add new contacts on your phonebook.

Display Name

iPhone users will know your custom display name, but other platforms not. It will use your contact’s name for display name.

Send Statuses

WhatsApp supports send statuses just like BBM. If you see Clock, the message is being sent to the reciepent. If you see checkmark, the message is sent to the server. If you see double checkmark, the message is sent to the reciepent device, but not indicating the message already been read. If you see cross (X), it’s simply failed.

Deactivibility

There is no way to deactivate WhatsApp. You may force kill to close WhatsApp, but WhatsApp will spawn again and check your connection. This drains your battery, actually. When you re-enable Mobile Data after being disabled or opening WhatsApp after task-killed, it will push all message sent during your inactivity. Be sure to update your status to “unavailable” or something before doing this.

Account Subscription

Some claims that WhatsApp is free, actually not. WhatsApp Account subscription is free for a year, and then if you mind to continue, you can pay 1.99 USD for 2 years subscription. Cheap, and this is to help them keeping their infrastructure alive. You can pay from PayPal and Google Checkout.

Interested?

If you interested, you can go to http://www.whatsapp.com to download. And, you can check WhatsApp FAQ for detailed info about using WhatsApp.

CORRECTION: WhatsApp for iPhone is not free. It costs 0.99 USD. Still cheap…

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