Whatsapp is undoubtedly the most widely used instant messaging service. Its that social glue that holds all the family and friends together regardless on what platform they are on. Whatsapp has been on Blackberry for a long time. However, when Blackberry 10 was announced, Whatsapp cleared the air saying that they weren’t looking to support the new OS. Back in December, somebody from the Whatsapp team emailed that one line to James Richardson at Crackberry: “We have no plans to support BlackBerry 10 at the moment, sorry.” Ouch. Well, that has changed now. Neeraj Arora of Whatsapp has tweeted that the app is coming to Blackberry 10 sometime in March, and yes, its going to be a proper native app.
No exact date yet, so dont go refreshing Blackberry World every hour. Blackberry keeps reminding us about the 70,000 apps it had ready at the BB10 launch, but quite a few popular ones are still missing in action, and if you ask us, Whatsapp was the one everybody kept asking about. This is the app that pushed 10 billion messages in a single day back in August 2012. For everybody who just paid Rs. 43,490 for a Z10 in India, thats one big worry gone. We’ll let you know the minute it shows up, so stay tuned !!
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