Tuesday, 26 February 2013
WhatsApp has confirmed that the native application of its very popular instant messaging app will arrive on the BB10 platform in March 2013. The news comes via the Twitter account of WhatsApp’s Neeraj Arora, who responded to a couple of user queries by saying “WhatsApp is coming to BB10 sometime in March.” Though no particular date has been confirmed, March is just a week away.
It is very clear that BlackBerry aims at no less than an attempt to fairly command a premium price for its flagship device, the BlackBerry Z10.
But for that to succeed, the application platform still needs to be
worked on. BlackBerry had proudly played up the fact that it had 70,000
apps ready at the time of the BB10 launch, but quite a few popular apps
are still missing in action.
However, the confirmation from WhatsApp
must be a boost for BlackBerry, which was still struggling to explain as
to why Instagram would not be offering a native app for BlackBerry 10.
The popular photo sharing network had specified that there is no native
app in the works, and the ported version is facing some serious
technical hurdles.
WhatsApp, is a cross platform instant messaging app, and is very popular
with a wide demographic of users. The network reported that 10 billion
messages were sent on its network in one day, back in August 2012. The
application is currently available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone,
BlackBerry OS7 and prior, Symbian and even on Nokia S40 Asha phones.
