History

• WhatsApp Inc., was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton as well as Jan Koum, both previous staff members of Yahoo!. After Koum and also Acton left Yahoo!

• In September 2007, the duo travelled to South Americaas a break from job.

• presented Koum to Igor Solomennikov, a developer in Russia that he had found on RentACoder.com. Koum virtually right away chose the name "WhatsApp" considering that it seemed like "exactly what's up", as well as a week in the future his birthday, on February 24, 2009, he included WhatsApp Inc

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Basic Features

Additional feature (comparing with Facebook messenger)

Whatsapp Web WhatsApp was formally made available for PCs with an internet client, under the name WhatsApp Web, in late January 2015 with a statement made by Koum on his Facebook page: "Our internet customer is merely an expansion of your phone: the web browser mirrors chats and messages from your mobile phone-- this indicates all your messages still survive on your phone". The WhatsApp customer's phone have to still be connected to the Internet for the browser application to work. All major desktop browsers are supported with the exception of MicrosoftInternet Traveler. WhatsApp Internet's interface is based upon the default Android one.As of January 21, 2015, the desktop computer variation was just offered to Android, BlackBerry and also Windows Phone individuals. Later, it also added assistance for iOS, Nokia Collection 40, and also Nokia S60 (Symbian).

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Platform Support

After months at beta phase, the application at some point released in November 2009 exclusively on the App Shop for the iPhone. In January 2010, assistance for BlackBerry mobile phones was added, and also consequently for Symbian OS in May 2010 and also for Android OS in August 2010. In August 2011 a beta for Nokia's non-smartphone OS Series 40 was added. A month later support for Windows Phone was included, adhered to by BlackBerry 10 in March 2013. In April 2015, assistance for Samsung's Tizen OS was added. • The oldest device capable of running

WhatsApp is the Symbian-based Nokia N95 released in March 2007.

• In August 2014, WhatsApp released an update to its Android application, adding support for Android Put on smartwatches

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