The saga of Whatsapp on Windows Phone has always been fueled with much hate since the app never really worked well out of the box and was always buggy. Having grown massively, Whatsapp left Windows Phone users to a sub par experience when compared with other platforms. The streaming API was hacked up and meddled with music playback and messages stopped refreshing inside the app occasionally. Annoying customers to the core, the app still has only a 3 star rating on the Windows Phone Store, but a new huge update to the app changes everything, again. Fixing all the problems that the app is known for, the company has provided the much needed huge update and looking at the early review, it seems all the major outstanding issues have been fixed.
Here is a quick list of changes on the new version of whatsapp –
Initiate voice calls from within the app
Background API allows you to play music
Proper Emoji
Fixed notifications for users
Users can now see smileys on the double wide tile
Fast resume (If the app is open and you click on the incoming notification it opens as fast as on Android)
On start-up, it now asks if you want to back up your …
Whatsapp finally gets a huge update on Windows Phone, now with background agent and proper Emoji!
The saga of Whatsapp on Windows Phone has always been fueled with much hate since the app never really worked well out of the box and was always buggy. Having grown massively, Whatsapp left Windows Phone users to a sub par experience when compared with other platforms. The streaming API was hacked up and meddled with music playback and messages stopped refreshing inside the app occasionally. Annoying customers to the core, the app still has only a 3 star rating on the Windows Phone Store, but a new huge update to the app changes everything, again. Fixing all the problems that the app is known for, the company has provided the much needed huge update and looking at the early review, it seems all the major outstanding issues have been fixed.
Here is a quick list of changes on the new version of whatsapp –
Initiate voice calls from within the app
Background API allows you to play music
Proper Emoji
Fixed notifications for users
Users can now see smileys on the double wide tile
Fast resume (If the app is open and you click on the incoming notification it opens as fast as on Android)
On start-up, it now asks if you want to back up your …