{"id":151293,"date":"2019-07-23T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=251203"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T08:00:58","slug":"kaios-brings-whatsapp-to-feature-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/23\/kaios-brings-whatsapp-to-feature-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"KaiOS brings WhatsApp to feature phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tWhatsApp made its global feature phone debut, courtesy of a partnership between parent company Facebook and KaiOS Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The app was initially made available [1] to users of the KaiOS-powered JioPhone in India in September 2018, but is now broadly available for download through the KaiStore on devices with 256MB or 512MB of RAM. Starting in Q3, WhatsApp will be preinstalled on \u201cmost\u201d phones powered by KaiOS.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the pair noted KaiOS compatibility will help WhatsApp reach \u201cmillions of new users across Africa, Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, Latin America and beyond,\u201d adding to the app\u2019s existing user base of more than 1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t Facebook\u2019s first collaboration with KaiOS: the company\u2019s namesake app is already available on KaiOS devices across India, Africa, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>But Sebastien Codeville, CEO of KaiOS Technologies, noted in a statement the move extends another \u201cimportant means of communication to a brand new demographic,\u201d adding it will allow \u201cthe next billion users to connect in meaningful ways with their loved ones, communities and others across the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May, Codeville detailed plans to aggressively expand KaiOS\u2019 presence [2] across the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, with the goal of boosting its user base from 100 million to 150 million by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/whatsapp-launches-on-jiophone\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/devices-home-banner\/kaios-chief-outlines-global-growth-plans\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp made its global feature phone debut, courtesy of a partnership between parent company Facebook &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/kaios-brings-whatsapp-to-feature-phones\/\">KaiOS brings WhatsApp to feature phones<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/23\/kaios-brings-whatsapp-to-feature-phones\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2047,2070,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-Dmd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151330,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151293\/revisions\/151330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}