WhatsApp will no longer be available on BlackBerry and NOKIA from the end of 2016
At the end of this year, owners of mobile phones / smartphones BlackBerry and NOKIA they will have to make an investment and change phones if they still want to use it the messenger application, WhatsApp.
In a recent announcement on the official page of the application, the end of support for these mobile phones is announced. As a clarification, it is about all BlackBerry smartphones and the old NOKIA phones which runs Symbian or Java. NOKIA smartphones that were developed under Microsoft will not be affected.
Old versions of Windows Mobile and Android will also be affected. So, WhatsApp will no longer be available on BlackBerry 10, Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, Windows Phone 7.1, Android 2.1 and Android 2.2.
The company (Facebook Inc.) announces that seven years ago, when the WhatsApp application was launched, these phones occupied 70% of the market, but in recent years things have changed significantly, and currently the smart phones developed by Google ( Android), Apple (iOS) and Microsoft (Windows Phone) occupy over 99.5% of the market.
“When we started WhatsApp in 2009, people’s use of mobile devices looked very different from today. The Apple App Store was only a few months old. About 70 percent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia. Mobile operating systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft — which account for 99.5 percent of sales today — were on less than 25 percent of mobile devices sold at the time.”