WhatsApp Calling...

[red devil]

Has anyone used this yet? The premise is that you can make free calls from your mobile to anywhere in the world as it uses your phone's internet connection rather than the phonecall allowance. The only caveat I can see is that the FAQ page says ''Data charges may apply''... http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/iphone/28041117

[jacks09]

It's the same as Skype, Facebook Messenger Calling, Viber etc.

Not new functionality at all.

[Jeremy]

You gotta be kidding RD... at a time when video calls are commonplace, this is old hat. Voice-over-IP has been around since the 90s.

[maxxi]

I keep getting fake "you have a WhatsApp message waiting" emails which are phishing scams - no I haven't clicked on any, a quick Google told me all I needed to know.

[red devil]

Calm down guys, I know it's not a new fandangled whizzo gizmo, I have Skype and Facetime too, but not everyone I know does, hell, some of them even still buy newspapers. Anyways, after a recent WhatsApp update it mentioned that this 'Calling' was a new facility in the App, and I thought it would be ideal to use it to make standard phone calls esp overseas, thus avoiding roaming charges. My question is about the charges and how much data allowance a call is likely to use up, guess I'll have to ask my provider, or failing that just get an unlimited data usage SIM...

[maxxi]

red devil Wrote:

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> Calm down guys, I know it's not a new fandangled

> whizzo gizmo

Now, see, if you had one of these you'd be laughing. They do a 'watch' too.

[Otta]

red devil Wrote:

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> > My question is about the charges and how much data

> allowance a call is likely to use up, guess I'll

> have to ask my provider, or failing that just get

> an unlimited data usage SIM...

Surely if you're using it whilst connected to wifi it wouldn't cost anything.

[Jeremy]

RD - check this out

http://www.androidauthority.com/voice-call-data-comparison-598541/

[Otta]

This might answer your question about data usage.

http://traffickk.com/whatsapp-voice-call-data-consumption/

[red devil]

Otta Wrote:

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> Surely if you're using it whilst connected to wifi

> it wouldn't cost anything.

That's right, was thinking when I'm out and about and the 3G kicks in.

Thanks for the link, and Jeremy's too.

It's not a big deal, won't be doing much calling this way, but nice to know it's there and will hopefully cost nowt.

A few months ago I kept getting bills way above my monthly plan charge, turned out it was because I had the Flickr App on in the background...you live and learn.

[DaveR]

I always use WhatsApp or Viber when I'm outside the EU for calling or messaging to the UK. In the Far East, particularly, local Sims with data are pretty cheap, plus there is wifi everywhere, so way cheaper than UK roaming charges.

[El Pibe]

skype, whatsapp, viber etc are proprietary, you need the other chap to have it on their phone be activated, logged in etc and I usually find that they're not without you using facebook, google messenger or even SMS to prompt them.

For convenience I tend to use localphone, a voip rerouting system so you only pay the local call charges, quite nifty.

http://www.localphone.com/

although i think skype may offer this sort of thing now....

[red devil]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> skype, whatsapp, viber etc are proprietary, you

> need the other chap to have it on their phone...

Ah, back to pigeon post for Aunty Mabel then... ;-)

[El Pibe]

ooh, the localphone route allows you to phone 0800 style numbers for free too!!

In fact when i was tryng to sort stuff out for the move in ireland all the numbers are 1800.....

Which means phoning from abroad it thinks you're dialling 00 353 (0)1 800 and puts you through to some random number in dublin, and half of them didn't even have a genuine non 1800 number which became a real issue until someone told me about localphone.

[ACBP]

Line app for Far East messages and calls...

[Henry_17]

Naver again!