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WhatsApp vs. Telegram – Best Voice and Features Comparison

A lot of similarities

Before beginning to discuss the unique aspects of each of these apps, we must talk about their similar features first to get that out of the way. First, web versions are available for both apps which makes it more comfortable for you to carry a conversation from whatever design you want. Same basic features are provided by both apps such as sending photos, text, and video. A delivery confirmation and read receipts are delivered by both apps. However, telegram does not allow you to turn off the read receipts, but WhatsApp does.

Group conversations are allowed by both apps, but on WhatsApp, you can only invite 256 people while Telegram allows 10,000 people in one group. You can send files to contacts on both these apps, but Telegram has a bigger limit than WhatsApp (16 MB), 1.5 GB.

Voice calling is offered by either service. Your calls will be top-quality on both these apps, but WhatsApp has a low data usage mode if you have limited data.

How is Telegram unique

Thanks to its possibility to offer end-to-end encryption to users, Telegram has become extremely popular. Messaging platform today offer this as well, but if you are serious about privacy, Telegram would be a better choice because you can also make secret message and chose not to allow screenshots of conversations. WhatsApp does not offer these features.

Why WhatsApp?

Its huge userbase makes WhatsApp stronger because a messaging service is not worth using if you do not have people to talk to. 1.3 billion users are active monthly on WhatsApp exceeding Telegram’s 100 million users.

Winner

The winner title goes to WhatsApp due to its vast user base which makes everything more convenient for users and when you are away from Wi-Fi you will be delighted to use the low data mode.

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WhatsApp Messenger 2.19.42 Beta Version Is Available With New Improvements

WhatsApp Messenger remains the most popular instant messaging app in the whole world. Totaling some billions of users, WhatsApp is, virtually, on almost every smartphone and tablet in the world. Now, WhatsApp Messenger 2.19.42 Beta version is available with new improvements.

WhatsApp rolled out in 2009 for iOS, but it quickly became available for Android in August 2010. Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014, making it the most popular instant messaging app for Android and iOS by 2015 when WhatsApp Web version also launched.

Now, in 2019, WhatsApp still earns its reward as the most popular messaging application on Android and iOS, thanks to the many features it launched over time. It is, undoubtedly, the most popular and appreciated app on the Google Play Store, as well as on the App Store of iOS systems. WhatsApp devs are always updating their app with new functions, and they continuously improve their app’s stability and performance.

WhatsApp Messenger 2.19.42 Beta Version Is Available With New Improvements

The new WhatsApp Messenger 2.19.42 Beta feats the same release notes as the previous Alpha versions. Accordingly, “it’s now easier to start group voice and video calls. Just tap the call button in groups or select ‘New group call’ when starting a new call in the calls tab. Group calls support up to 4 participants.”

However, that’s not accurate enough to explain what the latest WhatsApp Messenger 2.19.42 Beta is bringing. In reality, it comes out with several stability and performance improvements, plus some other under the hood enhancements that users must test before the official launch of a new WhatsApp Messenger final version.

In short, WhatsApp is the most popular instant messaging app for Android and iOS, and the devs behind it are frequently updating the application with new functions and improvements. The latest WhatsApp Messanger 2.19.42 Beta version received, for its part, new stability and performance enhancements.

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WhatsApp and Instagram Unification Under Facebook Messenger To Cause Serious Privacy Issues

WhatsApp is undoubtedly the best and the most popular instant messaging app for both Android and iOS. On the other hand, Instagram surpassed Facebook and became the most used social network. However, Facebook owns both WhatsApp and Instagram, and now, reportedly, the Zuckerberg’s company wants to unify WhatsApp and Instagram under Facebook Messenger.

While the idea to create a unified instant messaging app by merging WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger is not surprising since Facebook owns all of the before-mentioned apps, that might cause serious privacy issues for users. The problems might occur from the struggle to implement end-to-end encryption to the resulting app which would contain three different applications.

Among the three apps mentioned above, only WhatsApp enjoys end-to-end encryption, so, both Instagram and Facebook Messenger do not encrypt users’ messages. “Will the new platform impose default end-to-end encryption for all users regardless of which service they are actually using?” asked Davey Winder of the Forbes.

WhatsApp and Instagram Unification Under Facebook Messenger To Cause Serious Privacy Issues for Users

To unify WhatsApp and Instagram under Facebook Messenger and add end-to-end encryption to the resulting platform “is harder to achieve, at least in a way that could be thought of as being secure, than it sounds. Or at least it will be unless the plan is to completely re-engineer all three messaging services from the ground up,” Winder said on Forbes.

Now, more cybersecurity experts complained about the Zuckerberg’s decision to unite WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger into one big instant messaging platform. “Architecting early is easier than bolting features on artificially and messily later. At the very least, Mr. Zuckerberg should take advantage of the situation by leaning forward with a plan for privacy and be a hero instead of later suffering the consequences,” said Sam Curry, the chief security officer at Cybereason.

“This move [WhatsApp and Instagram unification under Facebook Messenger] could potentially be good or bad for security/privacy. But given recent history and financial motivations of Facebook, I wouldn’t bet my lunch money on good,” stated Matthew Green, a highly-respected cryptographer, on Twitter.

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WhatsApp 2.19.17 Update Came Out With Improved Group Calls Feature

WhatsApp is the most popular instant messaging app at the moment. But the success of WhatsApp should be granted to the devs behind the application, who are always updating WhatsApp with new functions and content to make the users stick with the app. Group calls are not new to WhatsApp now, but the developers have been improving this functionality since it first rolled out. Now, WhatsApp 2.19.17 update came out with an improved group calls feature.

WhatsApp emerged on Android in 2010, about one year after the initial launch on iOS, in 2009. Designed by two former Yahoo employees, WhatsApp enjoyed a little success on both Android and iOS. In 2014, one year after the instant messaging app became free to use and totaled more than 200 million active users, Facebook purchased WhatsApp from its producers and turned it into the great success it is nowadays.

WhatsApp 2.19.17 Update Came Out With Improved Group Calls Feature

In May 2018, WhatsApp introduced group calls, a function that eventually rolled out to every user of the instant messaging app in July of the same year. However, many users either don’t know it exists in WhatsApp or are not interested in the feature. But that is not stopping the WhatsApp team to update the functionality and add more features to it.

The new WhatsApp 2.19.17 launched a couple of days ago (you can find it on APK Mirror) and already began to also roll out on Google Play Store for some users, depending on their devices. The WhatsApp 2.19.17 update brings several improvements under the hood, but also a new group calls feature. Now, WhatsApp shows a call button on the top right of all group chats. “Just tap the call button in groups or select ‘New group call’ when starting a new call in the calls tab. Group calls support up to 4 participants,” says the official WhatsApp 2.19.17 release notes.

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WhatsApp Update To Limit Message Forwarding to Reduce Misinformation

With an update, WhatsApp will limit message forwarding to five, in its efforts to reduce misinformation and fake news, as reported the executives of the most popular instant messaging application. Until now, users could resend a message to up to 20 contacts. Now, however, in a measure that continues the one taken in July across India, Whats app limited message forwarding to five.

“We’re imposing a limit of five messages all over the world as of today,” explained Victoria Grand, vice-president for policy and communications at WhatsApp.

WhatsApp is the most popular instant messaging app on Android and iOS, totaling more than 1.5 billion users. Its popularity, however, also attracted some people to promote fake news and misinformation. WhatsApp acknowledged that and took some measures to tackle this trend. With an update, WhatsApp plans to limit message forwarding to five, trying to deal with misinformation and false rumors.

WhatsApp Update To Limit Message Forwarding to Reduce Misinformation

WhatsApp allows users to text their contacts, initiate voice calls and video calls, and share files such as images, videos, and documents, among others. It became popular in the last years, mainly thanks to the many improvements Facebook has implemented to the app since Zuckerberg’s company bought WhatsApp in 2014.

However, recently many scandals surrounded WhatsApp. In October 2018, during Brazil’s presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right candidate, reportedly used WhatsApp to spread fake news regarding its direct opponent. Also, in early 2018, Indians used WhatsApp to share misinformation.

Due to the before-mentioned cases and other similar ones worldwide, WhatsApp executives decided to take stricter measures against WhatsApp use for spreading fake news and rumors. Accordingly, via a WhatsApp update, which started to roll out yesterday, the devs will limit message forwarding to only five in order to reduce misinformation and tackle fake news propaganda.

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