If you thought that saving your iPhone or Android for years was going to make you a special person, it’s time to let go of that idea or start to contemplate that your old smartphone and will only be an object more collection, as from December 31 You will not have access to your WhatsApp account if your operating system is very old.
The instant messaging platform has decided to withdraw support for Windows Phone 7, iOS 6, Android 2.1, Android 2.2 and all those iPhone that can not be upgraded to iOS 7, so you have to take advantage of these Christmas dates to purchase a smartphone more recent.
According to WhatsApp statistics, these mobile operating systems accounted for 99.5 percent of worldwide smartphone sales, and now stand at less than 25 percent of devices sold.
During the last year, WhatsApp has been updated with new features to include video calls, end-to-end encryption of messages, possibility to put text in bold and italic, send GIFs, among other things.
These new features do not work on older devices; Therefore, the messaging platform will no longer support older ranges.
As we said a few days ago, users of BlackBerry, BlackBerry 10 and Nokia Symbian S60 will still have a chance to enjoy WhatsApp until June 30, 2017.
