WhatsApp apparently has decided to give us
their Christmas present in the Year of the Monkey. This by throwing a monkey wrench
at the Video Calling world!
So
says German site MacerKopf,
which has leaked photos suggesting that WhatApp will be introducing Video
Calling as reported in the article “WhatsApp
is reportedly adding video calls soon”, published December 23 2015 by
Napier Lopez, The Next Web.
The
leaked feature shown in German site MacerKopf screenshot is allegedly taken
from version 2.12.16.2 as noted in “WhatsApp
to launch new video calling feature”, published December 26, 2015 By News
Desk, The Pakistan Tribune.
Along
with version 2.12.16.2 update will also come with a tabbed conversation feature
that'll allow multiple user chats as noted in “New
WhatsApp messenger to introduce video calling, tabbed chats”, published 26
December 2015, MaltaToday.
This
mimics the tabbed browsing feature that's in most modern browsers.
How WhatsApp Video
Calling in 2016 - Apple's FaceTime, Microsoft's Skype and Google Hangouts
competition
Looks
very simple and plain, but it'll give IM Apple's FaceTime, Microsoft's Skype,
Google Hangouts and other some serious competition as noted in the article “Massive
WhatsApp Update Starts Google, Microsoft, Apple Attack”, published December
26 2015, by Gordon Kelly, Forbes.
This
900 million strong IM will also be a huge challenger to the Telecom Providers
in Jamaica, who are already actively blockings WhatsApp as noted in my blog article
entitled “Digicel
and FLOW Block WhatsApp - How Jamaica makes money from IXP via VoIP Cloud
Servers, SIP and MVNO”.
So
expect University students such as those at MICO University to still keep using
WhatsApp Voice Notes and Voice calling but on Wi-Fi as noted in my blog article
entitled “@WhatApp
Voice Calling comes to Version 2.12.1 - How Wi-Fi Calling by Proxy coming to
Jamaica with Features to Boot”.
That
is, if they haven't blocked that as well as noted in my blog article
entitled “Internet
blockade at MICO - How to use VPN and Proxy to access blocked websites”. Hoping
to see this soon on Google Android, as it means Video Calling Will go
mainstream in the Year of the Monkey!
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