Few days ago Facebook acquired WhatsApp in $19 billion it has already updated once to improve privacy. and now it is planning something really big. The giant messaging service has more than 450 million monthly active users 70% of which are active on daily basis. Today Jan Koum, the CEO of WhatsApp has announced that WhatsApp is now bringing voice communication by the Q2 of this year. As we know WhatsApp is a cross platform mobile messaging app including the iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry.
WhatsApp allows users to send and receive messages, photos, and other information and is a best alternative to text messages or SMS. More than 50 billion messages per day are received and sent on WhatsApp now. This amount of messaging is not far behind the global text messages sent and received. More over more than 1 million users are joining WhatsApp daily so at this point adding Voice communication will really be helpful and it will take the messanger to a whole different level.
In an interview by TechCrunch with the CEO he said “We use the least amount of bandwidth and we use the hell out of it,” he said. “We will focus on simplicity.” “Voice will come to Android and iOS first and then following on some Nokia and BlackBerry phones”.
We are really excited to see voice communication on WhatsApp. Are you?