Saturday, July 9, 2016

6 improvements come in Whatsapp (and yes, video calls arrive) – Strategy & Business

By: eleconomista.com.mx

Although still in the development phase, the new version of WhatsApp is a key objective: that users become or remain as its essential everyday tool. To achieve the the instant messaging service with more than 1,000 million users, plans to draw on new features that dazzle users.

With the update of WhatsApp, the application will seek to increase the level of competition other applications.

Facebook bought 2014 shares of WhatsApp for an amount that was around US $ 21,800 million, at the time the application was only 600 million active users worldwide, but Mark Zuckerberg decided to keep the technical team.

Since the acquisition of the development team WhatsApp application and its infrastructure as business has grown considerably. It is also true that developers have advanced in the rate of application update, with innovations applied to virtually all fields. However, WhatsApp intends to focus its efforts on the leading platforms, so new features will help them stay in the race

Here the list of improvements that some media have leaked on the internet.:

WhatsApp will feature video call

it is hoped that this function the application will plant face two giants: Skype (Microsoft) and Hangouts (Google). In the interface will contain a menu where the user can choose to make an audio call or a video call using the front camera phone. There are filtered images showing the interface for video calls.

Before you share a photo, you can edit

The photos may be accompanied by text, forms and effects like arrows, circles and shadows. WhatsApp will have six new icons to edit pictures, according Neurogadget. With this attack, in a way, one of the most successful features of Snapchat.

finally be GIFs

WhatsApp will have support for animated images ( GIF) so users only have to copy the URL that contains the GIF and WhatsApp represent the image in the conversation, preferentially as published in the newX web. Currently does open files of this type, but as if they were videos, so you have to download before you can view them.

You can share songs

yes, the platform never seems to stop sharing what you’re listening through Spotify, but you can do from Apple Music iPhone. Although different US media indicate that users of the messaging application can share songs with different groups, provided they are connected.

Emojis bigger

the update will add larger Whatsapp “emoji” so that users can continue to share emotions easily, with an image. The “emoji” have become important in the communication of users of these services, so that an increase in size should have a good response from the public.

Groups will remain unchanged

it is expected that administrators group do not have to add guests to contact lists, also participants can be added via links, QR code or via NFC. There will be public groups, and Telegram and also may summon a person within a group, which will answer directly.

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