first spotted by Android Police<\/a>, which reported that video calling had become available on WhatsApp\u2019s recent beta builds for some users. I tried installing version 2.16.318 (451462) on a couple of different Android phones and found it to work just fine.<\/p>\nCall quality was fine, but I noticed a bit of lag even on a 50Mbps Wi-Fi network. Of course, WhatsApp is likely to address that; it asked for quality feedback on video calls, so hopefully it\u2019ll take that into account before making the feature available on stable builds.<\/p>\n
With more than a billion users already on its network, WhatsApp could effectively ruin the game for Google\u2019s single-purpose app Duo, which only does video calls at the moment.<\/p>\n
For that matter, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been steadily improving its product in the past few months, adding features like user tags in group chats, the ability to\u00a0draw and add stickers to images a la Snapchat and support for placing calls and composing messages with Siri on iOS devices. It\u2019s even testing a public chat feature\u00a0that could become available in the near future.<\/p>\n
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Source: The Next Web<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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