The application Whatsapp announces that at the end of 2016 will no longer support certain mobile operating systems, this including: Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian, Windows Phone 7.1, Android 2.1 and 2.2 and finally Blackberry, including BlackBerry 10.
Whatsapp is the most used messaging applications worldwide, and more than 1/7 of the world uses it. Although few operating systems that leave behind Whatsapp, is a blow to Nokia and BlackBerry devices.
This application started in 2009, he served seven years a few days ago. Perhaps Whastapp 7 years seems a short time, but cell at the time were very different and that same 2009 a number of smartphones were BlackBerry and Nokia.
Nowadays devices with operating systems of Google, Apple and Microsoft make 99.5% of sales of cellular certainly not much room for Blackberry and Nokia.
It is important to have updated versions of all applications, not only new
features, but for safety improvements.
Whatsapp has been protected from these old versions of Android and iOS, in many cases forcing users to update their application if they want to use the service. This was a problem with the previous iPhone that no longer bear the new version with an older operating system.
Although Nokia devices are already rare today, which you will receive a big hit all BlackBerry users.