Step-Up Towards Privacy and Connectivity Concerns in Whatsapp

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C. Proposed Functionalities

WhatsApp is now becoming a complete package for conversation; therefore features few more features must be added.

- Audio Calls: Now-a- days, when WhatsApp is becoming a sole reason for the sale of internet packs of ISP’s , there must be a feature of audio calls too. So that user must not shift to other application for the calling purposes.

- Video Calls: Though video’s can be sent in a non-real time environment, but there can be feature added for video calling too as available in many other mobile chatting applications. It can be implemented through RTP (Real time Transfer Protocol) and VOIP (Voice over IP).

- Another feature which is most needed in this daily use app is sending of documents in .pdf or .doc format. Though we can send media like images, audio and video but there is no option for sending documents.

- AVAILABILITY FOR LOWER VERSIONS

No doubts that WhatsApp is a beautiful app that with large availability and usability, but still is confined to smart phones only. Lower versions of application for java and symbian phones too on which internet can be accessed. Its reach should not be limited to smart phones only.

- CONCLUSION:

With the emerging new technologies, world is becoming a smaller place. Communication from newspaper to television, then to computers and laptops and now the whole world has confined to a small hand sized gadget called mobile phone. We are equipped with several ways to connect to the world. And WhatsApp is a kind of application which is cheap, fast and readily available. Number of users of this application will soon be multiplied to many times in coming years. Therefore, it is very necessary to improvise this application and make it more user’s friendly but with privacy preservation.

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