Viber for windows 7.58/10/2023 ![]() To have Viber work on your desktop you need to first have Viber on your smartphone. With the recent update of Viber Desktop, you can even make calls to a friend on a desktop. Viber has voice calls using 3G or Wi-Fi on top of being able to send text, photos, videos and location data. WhatsApp also allows group chat (max: 30) and the use of a massive pile of Emoji. With the use of an Internet connection you can send text, photos, video clips, your location data (that opens up on Google Maps), audio clips as well as a friend’s contact to another friend via WhatsApp. Now we’ll take a look into each app and what they have to offer. We would say Viber is a few steps ahead of WhatsApp and WeChat, in terms of supported platforms. ![]() Viber also offers cross-platform desktop solutions for both Windows and Mac letting you not only text friends on smartphones but also make calls to them. However, WeChat has a web app which allows you to send WeChat messages from your browser. Supported Platforms: iOS | Android | Web WeChat ConclusionĪll 3 messaging apps are supported on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Nokia. Web Chat also lets you send files to your device and there is a handy browser plugin called Web Grab that lets you shake webpages from your desktop browser into your phone. To add to that the Web Chat feature lets you chat with a friend on the desktop browser linking is done with your device via QR Codes. WeChat is supported above iOS 4.3, Android OS 2.0, Blackberry OS 5.0, Windows Phone 7.5 and until recently Nokia S40 (beta). Supported Platforms: iOS | Android | Windows Phone | BlackBerry | Nokia | Bada | Windows | Mac WeChat Viber is a free app with no ads so if you are allergic to ads, you are going to love Viber. This means that you can make a call to friend who has Viber on their computer. Viber also works on Bada and has recently been made available for desktops (Mac OS 10.7 and above, Windows) via Viber Desktop. Viber is supported above iOS 4.3, Android OS 2.0, Windows Phone 7, as well as on Blackberry OS5 and OS7, Nokia S-40 and S-60. WhatsApp is a paid app, going for a one-off $0.99 for iOS, while on other phones, it is free for a year and will cost $0.99 per year of subsequent use. However, you cannot download it on the iPod, any tablet of any OS or on jailbroken or unlocked iPhones (or maybe you can but it won’t be optimized for it). WhatsApp is supported on the iPhone on iOS 4.3 and above, and Android phones 2.1 and above. Let’s first take a look at the platforms, mobile OS and devices each app supports. Not big on text? Skip the details and go straight to the table recap down below. Recommended Reading: 10 WhatsApp Alternatives For Your Smartphone In this showdown, we will be looking at these apps in 5 categories, listed below in no particular order. ![]() ![]() We’re here to help you answer that by comparing what we feel are the 3 best messaging apps (so far) out there: WhatsApp, Viber and WeChat. Some are better than others, but the question is which is the best? All messaging apps are not created equal. If you are reading this, chances are your smartphone is no further than 3 feet from you and you sometimes hear custom notification alerts for your email, messages and updates even when nothing new came in.įor most of us, we have forgone the use of SMS and calls and have depended instead on messaging apps for most of our communication needs. You can download the new WhatsApp version for Windows here.This is the generation of ‘smartphone holders’. The only addition that WhatsApp needs to make to get to their level is introduce video calling, then we will really see the battle take place among these social messengers as they struggle to improve their service and keep their market shares. This VoIP feature that WhatsApp has added to all 3 platforms now makes it a very huge competition from other applications like Viber and Skype that offer a similar service. This version will take about 17MB of your phone’s space so make sure you have a micro-SD card if your phone doesn’t have enough internal storage. Seeing as Zambia has a fair share of Windows smartphones in the Nokia Lumia range especially, this should be good news for user here. This version is WhatsApp 2.12.60.0 and uses either of these internet connections: 4G, 3G, 2G and EDGE, or Wi-Fi if available. The updated version applies to users using Windows 7.5, 8 and 8.1. Finally Windows phone owners can make voice calls on WhatsApp, after it had already slowed rolled out the extra feature to Android and iOS platforms earlier this year. ![]()
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