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Funny you should say that. WhatsApp became popular worldwide in part due to supporting such a vast amount of devices; including what would be known these days
by koyote 5y ago
Funny you should say that.
WhatsApp became popular worldwide in part due to supporting such a vast amount of devices; including what would be known these days as 'feature phones'. It even works on some of Nokia's 'retro' phones such as the 8110.
- jmg_ 5y agoUnfortunately it seems post-Facebook acquisition they ended support for (at least some of) those platforms. https://blog.whatsapp.com/whats-app-support-for-mobile-devices https://blog.whatsapp.com/whats-app-support-for-mobile-devic...
- HWR_14 5y agoI'm just thrown by your statement. No feature phone I've purchased has had the ability to use WhatsApp, so what are you talking about? Feature phones tend to come with a few preloaded apps, if that, full stop. Many come without the ability to run any apps at all. Maybe some feature phones have access to a app repository and some WhatsApp client could exist there? Or are you thinking you could have a web interface was if the feature phone includes a basic webbrowser?
- koyote 5y agoI mentioned a feature phone in my post that currently supports WhatsApp. Back in the early years, it used to support Nokia feature phones (not anymore of course) running their S40 operating system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_40). Accessing WhatsApp from the web is also of course always a possibility.