Re: WhatsApp warning
Originally Posted by
Baz46
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My use of WhatsApp is not extensive but it's an app. that allows texting in a more complicated way than the usual methods. It also allows users of iPhones to send photographs to users of Android phones for free. Photos sent iPhone to iPhone are free, if sent to an Android phone without using an app. like WhatsApp texts containing photographs are charged for even if your package has free texting. It's also possible to use it for mobile calls that would be outside a call package, to places that are not within the EEA area. That way it uses wifi, providing the receiving user has broadband.
The link below gives more information, hope it's useful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HIr_IpSBEQ
Thanks Barry very informative, but I realise why I don't know much about it....
I don't have a smartphone and you can list the number of calls I make on my clamshell in a year on the back of a matchbox...
Texts would be as rare as hens teeth because I'm usually either driving or don't have my specs with me when I get one.
I did purchase a smartphone from Tesco for fifty quid because my clamshell won't last forever, but I found the screen and text was far too small when surfing the net, and those touch screen phones just seem to have a life of their own...
So I'll stick to this laptop for emailing folk (rare) or conversing on the forum (everyday) and if I'm not at home I shouldn't be getting distracted on the internet anyway, I like to be part of that little bit of world that I'm inhabiting at the time....