{"id":165064,"date":"2016-05-15T21:29:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=165064"},"modified":"2016-05-15T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T19:30:59","slug":"whatsapp-testing-video-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/165064-whatsapp-testing-video-calling.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp testing video calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is testing video calling in its\u00a0latest beta for Android, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/whatsapp_testing_video_call_feature-blog-18233.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GSMArena<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video calling option is\u00a0not enabled for all users, with some receiving a\u00a0&#8220;Video Calling is unavailable at this time&#8221; message, stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>GSMArena said WhatsApp users can expect the video calling feature to roll out <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/164656-everywhere-you-can-use-whatsapp.html\"><strong>across all platforms<\/strong><\/a> in the near future, judging by the fact it is currently in open testing.<\/p>\n<p>The testing follows the recent\u00a0launch of a WhatsApp <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/164576-whatsapp-desktop-app-launched-for-windows-and-mac.html\"><strong>desktop application<\/strong><\/a> for Windows and Mac computers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on WhatsApp<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/164508-free-whatsapp-on-fnb-connect.html\">Free WhatsApp on FNB Connect<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/164084-why-brazil-is-trying-to-block-whatsapp.html\">Why Brazil is trying to block WhatsApp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is testing video calling in its latest beta for Android, according to a report by GSMArena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":164658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,34991,2594],"class_list":["post-165064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-video-calling","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165066,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165064\/revisions\/165066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}