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WhatsApp



Application: WhatsApp
Owner: WHATSAPP INC.
Category: Communications
Available On: Android, Apple, Windows, Blackberry, Nokia
Official Website: http://www.whatsapp.com/
Price: 0.99 USD  /  0.52 GBP for Apple App Store
         Free for Android, Blackberry, Windows, Nokia
         Prices may vary, check in stores 
Brief Summary: A mobile messaging app     exchanging messages without having to pay for SMS




"WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia and yes, those phones can all message each other! Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends."

Not Official Video
This particular messaging application could be the one which breaks the barrier of high price sms messaging.

               THE GOOD:
Pretty much a lot of this is free, that is except for the iPhone version. But even with the 0.59p charge, it really is worth it. You can do everything in this app. You can send messages, photos, videos and current locations (maps) to other connected friends. You just select the group that the admin had started and start texting away. Isn't that just fairly simple! It is also pretty fast as shown in the non-official video by frackulous (the prices at the end of the video are wrong). You can add a group/individual icon so people can recognise you straight away. You can also change the background. Isn't it a great application?

               THE BAD:
A few problems though... Only the group administrator (i.e. the person who started the group conversation) is allowed to add people, no-one else. A lot of the comments in the stores point out this pretty early on but it still hasn't been resolved. There can be a lot of hassle actually connecting to friends/adding a friend into the conversation. Also, the videos have a restriction/time limit approximately 1 minute only if I remember or sometimes, the videos don't even work!

               THE VERDICT
Overall a great app but still needs a bit of tidying up...

               THE RATINGS

Averaging out all the stores, the general public gave this app a 4/5.
You thought that this was a great app but still needed a bit more to reach 5/5

I would give this application a 4.5/5.
Again, a great app just the group administrator problem which drags 0.5 down.

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Anthony Cheng


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