dumb phone with whatsapp?

the_r_sole · 30 Sep 2018 at 17:28

does such a thing exist?
after enjoying a couple of weeks without a smart phone, looking into ditching it but I use whatsapp a fair bit for messaging...

adidan · 30 Sep 2018 at 17:52

Not quite yet I don't think.

I've been looking as the GF hates touchscreen. Sounds like Nokia KiaOS is probably going to get support (I think it just has in India, not sure) so in theory things like the 8110 will do.

Her older Nokia runs it (support ends Dec 31st though), as do these Nokias https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/s40/21099128

Whether buying one new comes with it still i'm not sure.

Edit: Sorry that was a lot of writing for not much help :/

the_r_sole · 30 Sep 2018 at 20:08

adidan said:
Not quite yet I don't think.

I've been looking as the GF hates touchscreen. Sounds like Nokia KiaOS is probably going to get support (I think it just has in India, not sure) so in theory things like the 8110 will do.

Her older Nokia runs it (support ends Dec 31st though), as do these Nokias https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/s40/21099128

Whether buying one new comes with it still i'm not sure.

Edit: Sorry that was a lot of writing for not much help :/

hah! no worries, that was kinda what I'd come up with from google so good to have it confirmed - at the moment I've managed to get whatsapp on my laptop so that will see me over for a while

adidan · 30 Sep 2018 at 20:12

the_r_sole said:
hah! no worries, that was kinda what I'd come up with from google so good to have it confirmed - at the moment I've managed to get whatsapp on my laptop so that will see me over for a while

Does that work ok then? I'd heard about it, that there's pc whatsapp software you can link it to your phone but i've not tried it yet.

the_r_sole · 30 Sep 2018 at 20:16

adidan said:
Does that work ok then? I'd heard about it, that there's pc whatsapp software you can link it to your phone but i've not tried it yet.

yeah, downloaded bluestacks and then installed whatsapp, used a back up from googledrive and it seems to work absolutely fine, it's just not getting any messages when you're out and about that's the issue but not that bothered tbh

adidan · 30 Sep 2018 at 21:27

the_r_sole said:
yeah, downloaded bluestacks and then installed whatsapp, used a back up from googledrive and it seems to work absolutely fine, it's just not getting any messages when you're out and about that's the issue but not that bothered tbh

Thanks for that, good to know.

May give it a whirl in the future.