WhatsApp is a great application that is useful for instant messaging from iPhone-to-iPhone for FREE. It is akin to the Blackberry Messenger, and is a rival application to the much famed Ping, which picked up a huge following due to the $0 price tag when it first launched. (They have since launched Ping Lite which is still free).
However, WhatsApp seemingly does not support quite a number of countries, but there is a legitimate way around it. Their website quotes in their FAQ:
What countries do you support?
Most of them! We took extra steps during development to make sure WhatsApp works for almost every country in the world and even among contacts in different countries. However, WhatsApp is currently not supported in Malaysia, India, Indonesia, and Thailand
Step-by-step tutorial on getting WhatsApp working
1. Install WhatsApp from the iTunes Store.
2. Before you launch it, go to Settings, then go to the Phone section.
3. Click on My Number.
4. Key in your number preceded with the + symbol and click Save.
5. Now, launch WhatsApp, and if you haven’t ever launched it before, you will be asked whether or not to allow WhatsApp to send you push notifications. Click OK (or else your functionality will be severely limited. If you previously clicked Don’t Allow, you can go back to Settings to modify it under the Notifications section).
6. You will be asked to key in your phone number again.
7. Do so, and click Done. And now you’re really done! WhatsApp should be enabled for you. (Do leave me a comment if this worked for you – it helps my head grow bigger).
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how to install WhatsApp by free?Thanks
You cannot install WhatsApp for free anymore, sorry. There was a promo period previously, but now they’re charging a nominal fee.
Hey, so i just downloaded whatsapp and SOME of my whatsapp contacts have appeared. Im certain my friend has whatsapp but it doesnt appear that way under the contacts. I am using a jailbroken iphone using a cracked v2.5.8 of whatsapp. Advise
hi…
when i went to settings and then phone and then my number it dint work..i mean ‘my number’ does not open for me to type in my phone number…what should i do?
hi…
when i went to settings and then phone and then my number it dint work..i mean ‘my number’ does not open for me to type in my phone number…what should i do?
Can v chat from I phone to another phone via whats app?
Can v chat from I phone to another phone via whats app?
hi
i’m having trouble, sending a message with whatsapp to a friend of mine in thailand. its sending to server, but server is not sending to my friend. anyone knows how i may arrange this?
hi,
i am not able to change my number in the settings menu as you told for enabling whatsapp.
Please help
thanks
my watsapp is not taking my no:(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1OSD3Jj3l8
It is supported in Thailand quite while. I always use it.
It is supported in India. Have it on my BB and use it to chat with my friends using I phone,Nokia handsets
It is supported in Malaysia too. I use it.
But we cannot download whatsapp for free. Those websites that offer free download is blocked!
hey din work…it says unable to connect
hey i have brought Samsung s2 from bangkok n whts app is not suppoting to it….
when i went to settings and then phone n ter is no option lyk my number only…what should i do?
Sigh… Ipod Touch doesnt have phone settings ler