“We want to be the twenty-first century communication,” insists a spokesman for the California company to announce the news. WhatsApp is updated and like their top competitors, and Line WeChat allows voice calls.
is true that already could send voice messages as notes, ie was asynchronous communication. This is more like Viber or Skype, also at Google Hangouts. Calls are included within the one-dollar fee (about 79 cents) a year to charge for its use.
The operation of this new option improvement over existing voice notes. The mechanics are very similar to a walkie-talkie: you press the record button while talking and sent to lift your finger. When you receive a message, just download, the weak point of this new-and heard. It is fast but not enough to be a natural and fluent conversation.
“This new option allows you to communicate in real time with friends or family, are in the next room or thousands of miles away,” said El Pais through posts by Whastapp. The service will be installed gradually in the next 24 hours on all platforms it works: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Nokia and BlackBerry.
talk option adds to the announcement of figures which will surely be multiplied after the improvement. Every day more than 11,000 sent millions of messages and received more than 20,000. The photos continue to reign, are the most sent: 325 million photos shared every day.
company with only 45 employees, has more than 300 million active users worldwide. Spain is a country star, exceed 20 million monthly active users. As in Germany, Mexico and India.
Despite its success, its implementation is very irregular and not the first global messaging service, according to GlobalWebIndex, which measures the use of these applications between, according to them, the 969 490 million smartphones that exist in the world.
This index considers instant messaging services such as Google Maps, then, is the number one ranking, being used by 54% of the population with smartphone. Ovi Maps to Nokia is used by the 9% and 11% ranked. Apple Maps gives no data.
The second would be for Facebook, with 44% and the third, YouTube (35%), followed, surprisingly, G+ (30%). The first application pure and instant messaging only for Weixin / WeChat, in fifth place, with 27% of users thanks to its presence in China, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
sixth is for Twitter (22%), followed by Skype and Facebook Messenger. Ninth place is already in use WhatsApp, implanted in 17% of smartphones. And the tenth to Instagram (11%), also owned by Facebook. Its direct competitor in videos, Vine, is ranked 17th, with only 2% of respondents answered that they have used in the last month ..
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