Yes you heard that right. Jan Koum, CEO of WhatsApp, said that anyone who downloads the chat app to their phones will be able to make Internet phone calls on Android and iPhones the spring, according to ABC News.
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The news came out at the Mobile World Congress, where Koum said that Blackberry, Microsoft and Nokia phones would be able to do the same thing later.Koum said the app is the best of its kind while using the least bandwidth to make it possible.
"We are going to introduce voice in WhatsApp in the second quarter of this year," Koum said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. "I think we have the best voice product out there. We use the least amount of bandwidth."
The app currently has a voice function but users have to send it in voice messages instead of having a live conversation.
WhatsApp's new owner Facebook has been pretty busy on the mobile side of things for the past month. The social network released a new mobile app called "Paper" a few weeks ago, according to CNN.
Tech websites like The Verge gave the app great reviews and even said that "Paper is the best Facebook app ever" in the headline of its review.
The review of the app also said that Paper was simply "just a better-looking, more responsive version of what you'll find inside the company's main app."
The app is said to be similar to apps like Flipboard, Feedly and Zite, essentially apps that curate news for users' feed.
With that in mind, you will be able to almost ignore your newsfeed if you want while searching through sections curated by Facebook.
The company said that Facebook content will be presented in a "magazine-style way" that the company hopes will make users look at posts, stories and images more often. A post on Facebook's newsroom said the company wanted to make the app's design attractive and make stories easier to share.
"Paper makes storytelling more beautiful with an immersive design and fullscreen, distraction-free layouts," the company said in the post. "We've also made it easier to craft and share beautiful stories of your own."
Facebook News Feed will be the first section of the app but won't have the same functions that the "native" Facebook app has. It will still present the same things in the feed, but will just appear in a more aesthetically pleasing way.
In addition, users will be able to customize the app by adding other topics "from photography and sports to food, science and design."
The social network also promised that the app will showcase "a rich mix of content from emerging voices and well-known publications."
There won't be any buttons though, users instead will have to look at other stories or posts by tilting their phone and swiping their fingers on the screen.
Paper was the first release from Facebook Creative Labs, whose mission is to create new mobile apps for the social network.
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