News by: Jared Peters 24th Feb 2014
As we all know that Facebook had bought the WhatsApp, and here comes the new announcement from WhatsApp under new management from Facebook, has shifted course slightly on its 2014 roadmap. At MWC this year, CEO of the company, Jan Koum, announced that WhatsApp users would be seeing a new feature rolled out in the next few months: voice calling.
Voice calling will initially become available to Android and iOS users in Q2 of 2014, with BlackBerry and Windows Phone users seeing the addition later on in the year. They didn’t reveal any details about how the voice calling would work, but it’s very likely that it will work like WhatsApp’s normal messaging service in that users will get a free trial period, then have to pay 99 cents per year to keep using it. Of course, if that is the plan, it’s still as cheap as ever.
So far, it’s looking like Facebook plans to keep WhatsApp separate, but continue to drive new features for the app. Voice calling is just the first step, and I imagine we’ll see more news from the company later this year.
