WhatsApp tackles Zoom and Skype with long-awaited new feature

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Soon you can finally start (video) calling with WhatsApp Web. This is evident from a new version of WhatsApp Beta.

When WhatsAppuser, the features of other chat services are sometimes envious. But yes, you use the chat app that everyone uses. After all, you can hardly chat with yourself.

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WhatsApp Web

You cannot use WhatsApp on a tablet, and WhatsApp sometimes remains quite restrictive. Facebook is already working behind the scenes to ensure that you will soon no longer need a continuous telephone connection to use WhatsApp Web, and there is another handy feature: calling.

You can be on your phone for years WhatsApp use to make a call. Ideal: it is free, and you can directly call the person you are chatting with. Although in our case that happens more often by accident than on purpose. Nevertheless.

Finally call

Now the company is chasing Zoom and Messenger, because soon you can finally start calling via WhatsApp Web on your computer or laptop.

Handy if, for example, you use the chat service for work, or if you mainly use the chat app on your laptop.

Don’t cheer too soon

Don’t cheer too soon, though, because the feature is still under development for the time being. The heroes of blog WABetaInfo keep a close eye WhatsApp Beta in the eye, and trial version of the chat app you can try on your phone. In it test Facebook changes, new features and other additions.

In the case of these kinds of concrete new features, it is always only a matter of time before they come to the regular version of WhatsApp. In other words, what everyone uses. How long that will take is unfortunately a mystery.

This can be from a few weeks to months. So it’s still a matter of waiting. Anyway, then you also have something: you can also go through WhatsApp Web video calling. That removes a number of irritating cases where you had to use Skype before. Bring it on Facebook!