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WhatsApp adding features competing with Zoom

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is joining the competition for the attention of people locked up at home during the pandemic. The company announced it is introducing voice and video calling feature on its desktop app.

This means users can use big screens competing with  services for remote working like Microsoft´s Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and so on.

The company said users will be able to use desktop screens for calls in both portrait and landscape mode, and the calls will be end-to-end encrypted. (bit.ly/3uW3Y0r)

”Voice and video calls on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted, so WhatsApp can’t hear or see them, whether you call from your phone or your computer. We’re starting with one-to-one calls on the WhatsApp desktop app so we make sure we can give you a reliable and high-quality experience. We will be expanding this feature to include group voice and video calls in the future.”

“Throughout the last year we’ve seen significant increases in people calling one another on WhatsApp, often for long conversations. Last New Year’s Eve, we broke the record for the most calls ever made in a single day with 1.4 billion voice and video calls”.

 

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