All the above OS are old except bb10, even Microsoft has stopped most updates for windows 7.1 and Android 2.1 is obviously outdated not to talk of symbians

TechPill:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but i just have to inform you that WhatsApp- A popular messaging app, will be discontinue on Blackberry and Nokia operating system this year 2016 ending to be precised.

Earlier this week Whatsapp celebrated its 7th years anniversary with its 1 Billion Active users, instead to break a bad news on such a good day, the team decided to wait till on Friday when they announced that: the app will soon be discontinued on BlackBerry and Nokia devices running those company's operating systems.

Yes! that include the Blackberry 10 device, Though the new Android-powered Blackberry Priv slider phone might probaly survive this heat because it was built with Android OS.

According to WhatApp Announcement



The Nokia S40 discontinuation will deeply affect developing countries like Nigeria because most people still uses old Nokia phone. The like of Nokia asha 200 and 203, Nokia 6100, 6200, Nokia c2 and c3 just to mention a few. I know most of us still love our old nokia phones. WhatsApp suggests "upgrading to a newer Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone" if you want to keep on using the service — if not, you'll need to find another messaging service by the end of the year before the service got discontinued.

So do you think this is necessary? please use the comment box

Source: http://www.techpill.net/2016/02/whatsapp-will-be-discontinued-on.html

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abegeee we go resume 2go na

Thank God I never forget my 2go password.

We must be mindful how we interepret information. The bulletin says they will end support, all users will still be able to use the applications but will not get the regular updates for the product. A practical example is Windows XP which has reached end of support life but still you can still install and use the operating system on any PC. So you will continue to enjoy whatsapp but to enjoy newer features, you will need to change your device. Thank you for reading my opinion.

Roidatom:
Wow! Google's way of controlling the market. They may soon consider to restrict it to Android phones.

Google has nothing to do with WhatsApp, Facebook owns WhatsApp.

Roidatom:
Wow!
Google's way of controlling the market.
They may soon consider to restrict it to Android phones.

Bro, Whatsapp is not owned by Google. The reasons they adduced have merits!

Roidatom:
Wow!
Google's way of controlling the market.
They may soon consider to restrict it to Android phones.

Wetin concern google with whatsapp, abi u no c android devices for d ones wen dem go discontinue?

TechPill:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but i just have to inform you that WhatsApp- A popular messaging app, will be discontinue on Blackberry and Nokia operating system this year 2016 ending to be precised.

Earlier this week Whatsapp celebrated its 7th years anniversary with its 1 Billion Active users, instead to break a bad news on such a good day, the team decided to wait till on Friday when they announced that: the app will soon be discontinued on BlackBerry and Nokia devices running those company's operating systems.

Yes! that include the Blackberry 10 device, Though the new Android-powered Blackberry Priv slider phone might probaly survive this heat because it was built with Android OS.

According to WhatApp Announcement



The Nokia S40 discontinuation will deeply affect developing countries like Nigeria because most people still uses old Nokia phone. The like of Nokia asha 200 and 203, Nokia 6100, 6200, Nokia c2 and c3 just to mention a few. I know most of us still love our old nokia phones. WhatsApp suggests "upgrading to a newer Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone" if you want to keep on using the service — if not, you'll need to find another messaging service by the end of the year before the service got discontinued.

So do you think this is necessary? please use the comment box

Source: http://www.techpill.net/2016/02/whatsapp-will-be-discontinued-on.html

CC: lalasticlala, Seun

[img]http://3.bp..com/-6J11Ibbh9FI/VtJDfL-eoEI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/zjCYGfHY7gY/s1600/whatsapp%2Bfor%2Bnokia%2Band%2Bblackberry.jpg[/img]

.....? What's mean of all this

This is Facebook obviously trying to kill WhatsApp cos I myself prefer WhatsApp to Facebook anytime... Lolz both of e'm sucks anyway

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Roidatom:
Wow!
Google's way of controlling the market.
They may soon consider to restrict it to Android phones.

google owns android

Please o they Shouldn't do that now...they should please doing it in order by rule of law. If a person want to download it. They should ask one or two question.

chimah3:
Lol. Y evil

Vic o na ur role model Abi lol

charix:
Sad. The funny part is I still got an update for my S60 phone earlier today.
I pray this rumour's a lie because Whatsapp coupled with long battery life is the only reason I still hold on to my old Symbian device.

same reason i still use my nokia E6 plus ease of typing even with the screen light off or while not even looking at my keyboard.

Why worry when you can use the android version of whatsapp on a bb10??

happney65:
omolola15 wait Hope my Nokia Lumia is not a part of this sha?

Upgrade your lumia to 8.1 that'll solve it.

charix:
Sad. The funny part is I still got an update for my S60 phone earlier today.
I pray this rumour's a lie because Whatsapp coupled with long battery life is the only reason I still hold on to my old Symbian device.

same reason i still use my nokia E6 plus ease of typing even with the keypad light off or while not even looking at my keypad.

Nonsense, they can go ahead. 2go dey there to replace you.
Nonsense, once again.

happney65:
omolola15 wait Hope my Nokia Lumia is not a part of this sha?

Lumia version 8.1 and above won't be affected.

#TeamLumia

LordReed:


Google has nothing to do with WhatsApp, Facebook owns WhatsApp.

hello, Facebook and whatsapp are two different companies owned by the same person. so Facebook doesn't own whatsapp. they are each accountable for their operations. happy Sunday.

2kurupt:
Lets face it, aside blackberry 10 all the other platforms mentioned are dead and can't support top notch features of current whatsapp versions.

I guess they want to unify the feature set of whatsapp across all platforms & letting go of seemingly outdated platforms is one of the ways of achieving that.

so why were they boasting of cross platform? they should have left them behind and continue with their updates on the present devices

pendusky:
This means the much hype about BB will die

or whatsapp would loose out

Muafrika2:
It's a very bad move. I think Facebook bought Whatsapp just to kill it, as it was making Facebook obsolete. This Will Make It Stop Growing.

Then Facebook will soon introduce a Whatsapp like feature to try and take its market.

This is not true. How can you kill something you invest so much on?. The reason why they're ending support for the said mobile devices is because they want to optimize the app and the only way to do this is to end support for obsolete technologies. If you're an app developer then you should know about this. When you choose to develop an app that support lower version of operating systems, then you should know that some great features that you might want to include in your app may not be possible. It's just like opening a word document written in office 2007 with Office 2013, you'll notice that the document is open in compatibility mode, meaning that some features may be disabled just so you can view the document in a newer version of office.

Kezifils:
Enough time for all bb lovers to abandon bb os and port to Android or ios

port to where? android.and iPhone that suck data on per sec billing

Who use BlackBerry nd Nokia phone these days,.. Pls advice them to switch to 2go....

thamoswonder:
Blackberry don enter one chance. After giving out rights of BBM to all devices, they have been ditched

which kind dirty.one chance.or na whatsapp go suffer

Alejhandro:
I think I know d reason behind it. But not to worry, because a new massaging app for those devices may b on d way. Trust Nokia naa abii Microsoft

which one do you think?

Bluezy13:
That doesn't stop whatsapp usuage...

it will especially in third and second world countries

priscaoge:
Nkea bu ezigbo njo ahia For those using d aforementioned devices, oya make una port to other devices

because dey pluck moni shey? even now fone don deer now for market

Panshow:

This is not true. How can you kill something you invest so much on?. The reason why they're ending support for the said mobile devices is because they want to optimize the app and the only way to do this is to end support for obsolete technologies. If you're an app developer then you should know about this. When you choose to develop an app that support lower version of operating systems, then you should know that some great features that you might want to include in your app may not be possible. It's just like opening a word document written in office 2007 with Office 2013, you'll notice that the document is open in compatibility mode, meaning that some features may be disabled just so you can view the document in a newer version of office.

Thanks for the explanation. But how come Facebook does not select phones? They seem to have the capacity to include all phone users but they choose not to.

honorbule:


Not Google .....facebook. I hope this guy's are not trying to sell whatsapp to us...what'sapp and whatsapp pro..

how please explain?

Dottore:
Who still uses those, especially BlackBerry. Microsoft has stopped labelling their windows phones Nokia. They ate now Lumia this Lumia that.

alot of persons still do

asuustrike2009:

or whatsapp would loose out

80% BB users likes Whatsapp more than BB, so BB will loose out instead coz they will abandon BB and buy android