With over one billion active users, WhatsApp is most popular instant messaging application. It comes for various platform and allows you to stay connected with your friends. It also has a web client to access WhatsApp from the desktop. But this is restricted and you need your phone to use WhatsApp on the desktop.
Accessing WhatsApp from desktop using web client has few requirements. You need to have your phone to scan the QR code and your phone should be connected to The Internet in order to use WhatsApp web client. But, WhatsApp is considering to drop the requirement of the phone to use WhatsApp on desktop. For this, company is working on desktop apps for Windows and Mac operating systems. These apps will not require having a smartphone with you.
A Twitter account, which tracks changes in WhatsApp’s beta builds recently tweeted images to confirm the upcoming desktop clients.
You can see these screenshots. #WhatsApp #Mac #Windows #NativeClient #iOS #Android #WP #Blackberry #Symbian #Nokia pic.twitter.com/AKja58zf5C
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) April 29, 2016
The full-fledged desktop application will make it easier to send documents and make voice calls. The best thing is that you will not have to connect your phone to The Internet to use Whatsapp from desktop. When you are working on desktop, it is better to use WhatsApp. Using smartphone to reply on WhatsApp while working on desktop increases overhead.
What do you think about this new change in WhatsApp? Do you think that having desktop client will make it easier to access WhatsApp? Share your views with us via comments.
