Being recently purchased by Facebook for the incredible amount of 19 billion dollars, Whatsapp also received a great feature along with its last updated. The Whatsapp app now lets you pay for your family or friends or any of your contact’s Whatsapp subscription.
I am sure that you already know the features Whatsapp brings. It is, in fact, a cross-platform mobile messaging app that lets you send free text messages to all of your friends. The app is completely free of charge of the first year, and thereon, you need to pay for a subscription of $0.99 per year in order to use the messaging app.
Whatsapp is available for the following mobile OS: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and Symbian platforms. In the same time, for those who want to get rid of a small keyboard and a small screen, they can easily start using Whatsapp on their computer, with the help of Bluestacks. This Android emulator allows us to download, install and run pretty much any mobile app and game right on our Windows and Mac computers. In this way, we can easily use Whatsapp for PC.
As I mentioned earlier, the latest Whatsapp update brings us the possibility to purchase a subscription for any of our contacts. When you think about the fact that you will avoid high costing text messages and voice call bills, I am sure that the amount of nearly a dollar will seem very affordable.
In case you are interested to surprise one of your friends, family or contact with a free Whatsapp subscription for a year, here I what you need to do to purchase it:
- Open Whatsapp and go to Settings.
- Here, search for “Contacts”.
- In the contacts menu, you will find the option of “Pay for a friend”. In this option, tap on “Choose a contact”, to pay the subscription fee.
Here, you have the possibility to choose to pay for 1 year, 3 years or 5 years subscription fees of your friends of family members. As I mentioned earlier, the 1-year extension cost $0.99, while the 30year and the 5-year extensions cost $2.67 and $3.71 respectively. You can pay for these fees through Google Wallet or PayPal.
The update is more than welcomed since Whatsapp has more than 44 percent share among other smartphone messaging apps. Whatsapp has almost half billion users all around the world, and along with the Facebook purchase, the company intends to pass the I billion users limit n a very short span of time. The update also helps push forward the messaging app in the right direction.
Along with the “Pay for a Friend” feature, the update also brought a couple of interesting features such as new privacy settings for last seen, profile picture and status. Also, a new Camera shortcut for quicker picture sending was added, and as rumors suggest, Whatsapp also plans to add voice services to its users by the second quarter of 2015.
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