But it apparently feels like the Facebook owned company doesn't like to keep its former OS relations intact any longer. The Canadian smartphone maker has a small share of the global smartphone market, but its users were actively fighting against the decision.
The WhatsApp-support-for-mobile-devices" target="_blank">blog post advised "dumb-phone" users to upgrade to a newer Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone before the end of 2016 to continue using WhatsApp. The beta app is now available at Google Play Store.
Shifting away from the operating systems that helped bed in the service, by the end of the year Nokia and Blackberry is being left behind. Some of the platforms through which Whatsapp is withdrawing support are BlackBerry 10, Nokia Symbian S60, Windows 7.1, and Android 2.1 as well as Android 2.2.
The best chance for you to check out all these changes is downloading version 2.12.498 of WhatsApp. In the meantime, it would be a good idea for existing Blackberr y users to switch to an equally effective alternative, especially if they do not wish to switch platforms. As per statistics WhatsApp is a part of 99% Android, Windows 8 and iOS device. It also added that they are working actively to explore alternative ways for Blackberry users once the support of WhatsApp Messenger for Blackberry ends in late 2016. WhatsApp's decision might not have too much effect on BlackBerry users since Blackberry plans to use Android as its mobile operating system soon.
More than 90 percent of South Africans have a mobile phone, according to 2014 data from the Pew Research Center. Today BlackBerry has approximately 1% of the market, but in 2009 it was a world-leading smartphone vendor.
Apart from this, users will also be shown up with the similar type of message when they send the text messages to any of their groups.
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