Video of WhatsApp are coming to Android and iOS – CNET in Spanish

So the looks of the interface to make video calls in WhatsApp for Android

Juan Garzón/CNET

The function of video calls on WhatsApp is being enabled for registered users in the beta of the app on iOS and Android.

starting this week, users registered in the beta of WhatsApp took to the social networks to inform them of this novelty, which had been waiting for since months ago.

Users with the video calling enabled in their app of WhatsApp can call other users with the active function. It is important to note that only registered users, for now, they can make use of video calls.

Juan Garzón, editor of CNET in Spanish, you already have activated this function and made a screenshot to show the interface (picture inserted above). A spokesperson for WhatsApp told CNET in Spanish that the company does not comment on features in beta.

Since WhatsApp released the calls by VoIP (for Internet, not phone line), video calling is the feature most expected. On several occasions, the media and the users have posted pictures of how they would perform video calls, but the function has not yet come to the users.

In August, the Spanish newspaper The Nation , he said that WhatsApp would launch the video in 2017; to such an assertion, a spokesperson said to CNET in Spanish that WhatsApp is not commenting on upcoming products.

The evidence of the video began since may, and even before that. The version 2.16.3 of WhatsApp on iOS already included the function in the log (or documentation of the version), but was not active. The latest version of WhatsApp on iOS is 2.16.12.

With over 1,000 million users, WhatsApp must prove gradually the function of video calls, and make sure that at the time of activating the function for its users, it will work as smoothly as possible.