The new year is just around the corner, and the WhatsApp announcement will force millions to abandon their plans and buy a new phone to access WhatsApp. The application recently celebrated its 7th year anniversary and as soon as the celebrations ended the notice rolled out about the discontinuation of WhatsApp on several phones including those with Windows 7. After launching in 2009, WhatsApp was supported by several Operating Systems, these include even some basic phones. While some mobile phones got a software update, others couldn’t support new software and hence retained the old operating system in the mobile and in turn leaving WhatsApp in the basic application form.
WhatsApp has released a list of devices that wouldn’t support the application in the future. The devices that will not have WhatsApp facility from 2017 are the handsets with Android 2.1 and Android 2.2 versions, Windows phone 7 and iPhone 3GS and also iOS 6.
In a blog post, WhatsApp released a statement saying, “The Apple App Store was only a few months old. About 70 percent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia. Mobile operating systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft – which account for 99.5 percent of sales today – were on less than 25 percent of mobile devices sold at the time.”
BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10, Nokia S40 and Nokia Symbian S60 were originally a part of the list. But WhatsApp later decided to support these operating systems till June 30, 2017. Most of the applications launched recently, provide an update on the changing operating system. And also some applications cannot be downloaded in older operating systems. Every day human life has started depending on virtual apps not only for shopping but also banking, ticketing, and movies. So all those with the old operating system based mobile phones, it is time to get an upgrade and get your access to WhatsApp.
