BENGALURU: WhatsApp has now officially joined the team of apps that facilitate free calls anytime. The much awaited voice-calling has been rolled out by WhatsApp version 2.11.528 to more people and reportedly gave access to voice calling. Those who received the update could activate the feature for other WhatsApp users simply by making a WhatsApp call to them.

There was no official announcement regarding this update and therefore the service was stopped soon after its release—as per the ToI Reports.

Android is the first platform chosen by WhatsApp to rollout this feature followed by iOS which is yet to get that feature. However WhatsApp plans on rolling out this feature in short phases probably to check the usage and the functionality of the feature. The world’s most popular messaging app is also not keen to highlight the news.

WhatsApp fiercly raced with competing messaging app and established itself as the world's most popular messaging app with over 700 million monthly active users. Now the next logical step is to keep pace with the rest of the apps and prove itself better than the others in terms of functionality.

WhatsApps’s latest and recently launched Web version works surprisingly well. This is again what the other competing messaging apps such as iMessage, Line, Viber and others had in common for a while. But the reports show the WhatsApp’s web version is the best of all.

After being acquired by Facebook in 2014, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum had said that voice calling would be rolled out in Q1 2015 and the company appears to be sticking to that deadline. As of now there is no word on when the feature would be made available to non-Android users.

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