WhatsApp will no longer support BlackBerry, Nokia S40, Windows 7.1, earlier Android versions

By the end of this year, WhatsApp users on BlackBerry, including BlackBerry 10, will no longer be able to use the instant messaging sevice.

By Myolisi Sikupela

3 Mar 2016

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In addition to cutting support for the BB OS, WhatsApp will no longer be compatible with Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, Windows Phone 7.1 and earlier versions of Android, Android 2.1 and Android 2.2

The Facebook owned IM announced that these devices and platforms will soon be incompatible with the platform, owing to their inability to offer the kind of capabilities that WhatsApp needs to expand its app’s features in the future.

The company, which recently turned seven years old, now has one-billion monthly active users, meaning one in seven people in the world are now on WhatsApp...

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