WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for short messaging system (SMS).

WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia, and Yes! Those phones can all message each other! Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same Internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends. You don’t need a PIN (like BBM) for the person you want to “whatsApp”; you only need their phone number. Off course, both of you must have whatsapp installed on your smartphones.
In addition to basic messaging, WhatsApp users can create groups, send each other unlimited images, video and now voice messaging. Earlier today, someone told me she sends approximately 90 WhatsApp messages daily; fascinatingly, she only has five (5) contacts on her list. So, can you imagine people with as many as 20 contacts? Ooh! La! La!
A small application coming from two former Yahoo employees is now one of earth’s largest and most popular messaging systems. Here are some amazing numbers on WhatsApp progress
WhatsApp was handling ten billion (more than the world’s population) messages per day as of August 2012, growing from two billion in April of the same yearand one billion in October 2011. Do you think WhatsApp has done to SMS on mobile phones what Skype did to international calling on landlines? I genuinely think so!
As of August 6, 2013, yes, last Tuesday, WhatsApp has over 300 million active users, and 325 million photos shared each day.
With all the texting that people do these days, it’s naturally taken a messaging app to re-introduce the act of using our voices to communicate.
WhatsApp, the increasingly ubiquitous global messaging app, has launched voice messaging, a new feature that will let users record and send audio files with one tap on their smartphones.
The messaging company, which has about 45 employees and is based in Mountain View, California, USA, confirmed a report in that the service would allow users to press and hold the microphone on their keyboard to send a voice message, a bit like using a walkie-talkie.
WhatsApp also said it had reached an extraordinary 300 million global monthly active users, surpassing 20 million monthly active users in four countries: Germany, Spain, Mexico and India.
Push-to-talk messaging as it’s technically known was a pet project of WhatsApp co-founder who worked closely with the company’s engineers over the last six months to fine-tune the feature. It will be pushed out to WhatsApp users across all platforms and devices in the next few days.
Certain languages such as Chinese are very difficult to type. For some people it’s easier to send a quick voice message… and it’s more fun and expressive. Don’t you think so? Imagine we sending a creole voice message “aye bai, yuh don yet, aahwehyudeh?”
WhatsApp also allows users to send video files; so could more seamless video messaging be a next step? Depends on what users want and how the industry evolves, WhatsApp will definitely improve various ways of messaging.
For a company that has gained so much traction among users, it has collected relatively little in venture capital funding: just $8 million from an initial funding round led by Sequoia Capital in 2011, and nothing more since. The company says it is profitable.
Once voice messaging has rolled out, WhatsAppfounders and engineers will focus on developing other features such as photo sharing, etc.
So, friends it is clear to us, mobile phones and its platforms are taking over the social media, the market, the way we communicate, so we my hear about a device and application that can send messages as to how our mind thinks, we think it, the device types and send it…how wonderful technology is, more we live the more we see and now the more we can talk with whatsApp.