WhatsApp to discontinue support for Blackberry 10, Symbian and Windows Phone 7.1 by year end

Facebook owned popular messaging platform WhatsApp announced that it would discontinue its services for older operating systems by the end of this year.

WhatsApp in a blog post said that it will stop supporting smartphones running dated operating system including BlackBerry 10 Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, Android 2.1, Android 2.1 and Windows Phone 7.1.

On discontinuing the service on the aforementioned OS, WhatsApp says that "they don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app’s features in the future."
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If you're using devices running the aforementioned operating system  WhatsApp suggests "upgrading to a newer Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone" if you want to keep on using the service.

WhatsApp's messaging service that started in 2009, currently has more than one billion active monthly users.

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