WhatsApp Voice Calling Feature Pushed Back To Early 2015 due to Technical Hurdles

Earlier this February ,WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum revealed plans to offer voice calling in its app by mid-2014 during Mobile World Congress. That date came and went and we never heard nothing about the matter, until now.

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 In the course of a presentation at the Mobile World conference, He discloses that establishing a calling service isn’t exactly easy. The development team has to overcome a number of technical difficulty to bring voice calling to WhatsApp.
One of the issues the executive indicate is the fact that WhatsApp doesn’t have access to all of the microphones on some smartphones.While not a major issue, it does make noise cancellation a tricky measure.

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 He also said they are still trying to figure out how to compete with poor cell reception, an issue that will no doubt cause complications in developing markets where 2G EDGE networks are still the norm.

The executive clarified that WhatsApp won’t compete with Facebook’s own Messenger app, primarily because the latter is based on Facebook friends and runs on desktops. WhatsApp, for the moment, is a pure mobile app.

The announcement on voice calling in Whatsapp took place earlier this year just days after Facebook agreed to buy the mobile messaging service for $19 billion. The purchase was completed earlier this month. At present, WhatsApp has more than 600 million active monthly users with plans to eventually cross the 1 billion active user mark. With financial support and infrastructure from Facebook,
 Koum said they’re now able to focus entirely on growth.


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