Knock-Knock: WhatsApp Calling for Windows Phone [Private beta]

Earlier in the morning, Private beta of WhatsApp for Windows Phone received an update that enabled voice calling (VOIP) for the modern messenger service.

So how is it? The audio quality is magnificent, much better than you would expect for such a new service. In general, it is quite fast to make the connection to the other party’s phone and it uses your WhatsApp number for identification purposes. There are clear indicators that it is a WhatsApp incoming call as well, plus users can decline and use messaging instead.

Public release

There’s no word on exactly when the full Voice Calling feature will be rolled out to public users of WhatsApp on Windows Phone. Seeing as it now only spreading out to the beta group it is safe to say we are likely a few weeks out before things are finalized.

The good news here is we are not too far behind Android, who only received this feature a few weeks ago.

Note:

WhatsApp voice is only for the beta version of the app. The public version of WhatsApp that’s in the Windows Phone Store does not yet have these features! Thank you.