WhatsApp Pulling Support for Older Devices, Operating Systems

What do BlackBerry (including BlackBerry 10), the Nokia S40, the Nokia Symbian S60, Android 2.1, Android 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1 have in common?

What do BlackBerry (including BlackBerry 10), the Nokia S40, the Nokia Symbian S60, Android 2.1, Android 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1 have in common?

By the end of 2016, WhatsApp will no longer support those devices and platforms, the Facebook-owned messaging application announced in a blog post.

The app, which turned seven last week, recommended that users of those older technologies upgrade by year-end to continue using WhatsApp, saying in its blog post:

When we started WhatsApp in 2009, people’s use of mobile devices looked very different from today.

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