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WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will allow users to send messages without using a mobile phone. Photo/doc
JAKARTA – WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will allow users to send messages without using their phone for the first time. Currently, WhatsApp web requires connecting to a phone to receive and send messages.
Not only that, even when your phone’s battery dies, you can still send messages via WhatsApp.
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Currently WhatsApp is still improving performance and adding features before enabling it for everyone.
New features WhatsApp This is arguably already left behind by its rival ‘Signal’ which can send and receive messages without a cell phone. However, because Signal users are still few, this feature is not widely known.
In a blog post announcing the move, Facebook engineers said the change required a “rethink” of WhatsApp’s software design.
That’s because the current version of WhatsApp uses the smartphone app as the primary device, the only device capable of end-to-end encryption of messages for other users. [atau] start the call.
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” WhatsApp The web and other non-smartphone apps are essentially “mirrors” of what’s happening on the phone,” the company said.
But the system has a significant drawback familiar to many casual users, as web apps are known to frequently crash when the phone runs out of battery.
“WhatsApp’s new multi-device architecture removes this obstacle, no longer requiring a smartphone to send and receive messages while still keeping user data securely synced,” the company said.
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On a technical level, the solution gives each device its own “identity key”, and WhatsApp keep a record of which keys belong to the same user account. That means there’s no need to store messages on its own servers, which can lead to privacy issues.
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