ChatterBank2 mins ago
hi, can whatsapp be installed and accessed from a laptop without having a smartphone ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.No, WhatsApp requires an active smartphone with a mobile number to set up and use the messaging service. While there is a web version of WhatsApp that can be accessed through a browser on a laptop or desktop computer, it still requires the WhatsApp application on a smartphone for initial setup and authentication. Once set up, you can use WhatsApp Web to send and receive messages using your computer, but the smartphone needs to be connected to the internet for WhatsApp Web to work.
People keep asking me to install Whatsapp.
I had a heated discussion with a taxi firm in Tenerife a couple of months back. I'd booked a taxi to take me from the airport to my hotel. The day before departure I had a text asking me to ensure my "Whatsapp" was the latest version as the driver might want to contact me. I said I don't use Whatsapp, have no intention of doing so and if he wants to contact me he can text me or (believe it or not) actually speak to me.
I was told that Whatsapp is the only way he could contact me and I suggested he would be out of luck if he needed to get me. How can this be and what's the difference between using it and texting me?
Whatsapp uses the internet provider and texts the mobile provider (eg when I'm at home I whatsapp using TalkTalk and text using vodafone). OG is probably right ref costs as when abroad it costs to send and receive normal texts, especially say from a spanish phone to a UK one if you don't have free roaming.
“Cost possibly. Once you pay for unlimited data you send as many messages as you like. But they may be paying per text.”
“16:15 judge, whatsapp does everything using the web thus calls and texts are free.”
Thanks both. So basically I have to instal an app that I don’t want and will never use in order to save taxi drivers and others who might want to contact me the cost of a call. Thought it might be something like that.