In 1995, Shigetaka Kurita created for the mobile internet platform of NTT DoCoMo a heart-shaped symbol among the mobile optionss Pocket Bell. And given its enormous reception, this led Kurita to search for ideas among symbols and elements of Japanese culture such as Kanji or manga to develop a set of 176 characters. In this …
They are working on Facebook to provide WhatsApp with increasingly useful functions and turn it into a complete service. In fact, the application has a version for companies and another for the rest of the users and it seems that there will soon be a new bridge between the two features. It will all be …
The more free time you have is when you tend to use social networks the most, and summer holidays are an ideal time for this. But it also happens that there are those who want to do the opposite and use the mobile phone as little as possible, in order to truly disconnect from day …
At first it was only for text messages, but like any successful application, WhatsApp had to learn to diversify and expand its capacity, becoming able to send multimedia files such as photos, videos, audio images and even text documents and others. But, hasn’t it ever happened to you that you’ve received a message with content …
Speed seems like the keyword in today’s digital age. Internet, telecommuting, mobile applications, everything seems designed with the idea of doing things faster, more efficient, more effective. For this reason, for about a month, WhatsApp implemented a couple of tools in its application to help users chat with those who matter most more quickly. New …
Smartphones have made it possible to have all kinds of functions in one place. Games are the least of it, if you have good tools you may not even need much more to do your job. But when we talk about communication, social networks and messaging apps are necessary and having at least the essential …
At the beginning, WhatsApp only allowed you to send messages. But little by little the app was expanding its range of functionalities. And nowadays sending multimedia files, be it photos that we have in the phone’s gallery, freshly made with the function that opens access to the camera, downloaded images or videos, is common. Send …
The mobile phone has gone from being a secondary element that we carried with us only for emergencies – the beginning of the end for phone booths – to becoming an extension of ourselves. And that is demonstrated in that each person personalizes it to their liking, from the wallpapers to the melodies, the tones, …
WhatsApp is one of the best applications that you can have installed to communicate with your contacts. In addition, you can send any type of content to your friends, from links to videos, but not all versions have the same options to work. This happens with the W photo editorhatsApp that will now also come …
It all starts first by receiving an SMS message from WhatsApp technical support -or at least that’s what they say-, to communicate that your phone number, the one you have linked to your WhatsApp account, has been registered in a new account. WhatsApp wants to know if the person they are addressing is the owner …
When you send a photo or image through the private Instagram chat, you can schedule it to be deleted as soon as the recipient sees it, or when a few minutes / hours pass. This feature has been on Instagram for years, but not on WhatsApp. In the messaging app, when you send an image, …
Almost always above WhatsApp in terms of news, Telegram is usually always the first to release new or expand limits that the Facebook app then seeks to reach. And although, curiously, it has been incorporated late into the subject of video calls, it has just established a standard that WhatsApp will cost it a priori …
For a few years -2018 to be exact- the WhatsApp application implemented a function to let the user know that the text message they had just received in a chat window had been forwarded. In other words, it comes from another conversation and not from the one you are having with the contact of that …
You are on vacation, or you just want to enjoy your weekends. Be that as it may, you don’t want to hear WhatsApp notifications from certain contacts and groups, or see the notice with the number of unread messages in these chats. But at the same time you do not want / can go out …
The usual way to talk to someone on WhatsApp is to ask for their phone number, put it in the phone book and open the messaging app. But there are several alternative ways to avoid this. And if you need to send a message to a person who is not your regular contact, and / …
WhatsApp Web it is an account extension on your mobile phone. In this way, the messages you send and receive on your PC and your smartphone are synchronized and you can see them on both devices. It is not exactly installing a program like Telegram does -something that can also be done by installing the …
A mobile, a phone number, an account. This is how WhatsApp has always been since its premiere. And if you want to have two WhatsApp accounts on the same terminal, it is possible using two SIM cards -or a virtual e-Sim-, which again points out that the messaging application can only be used at the …
In digital language you have two options to send an emotion: either you send a video or gif or you use an emoji. The answer is clear to many and it is a clear ruling in favor of the emoji. But maybe on some occasion you have thought if at some point we understood emojis …