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iPhone Blackberry Messenger Equivalent?

a friend has been using this app in Cyprus with his Cypriot sim.

in a few weeks he will be back in london as term starts in october.

he will put his o2 sim back in.

will me and all the others that have added him, have to remove his cypriot number from favourites or is it automatic? also i guess he will have to reinstall his iphone to change the number.
 
Aravintht said:
a friend has been using this app in Cyprus with his Cypriot sim.

in a few weeks he will be back in london as term starts in october.

he will put his o2 sim back in.

will me and all the others that have added him, have to remove his cypriot number from favourites or is it automatic?
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if you delete his old Cyprus phone number from your address book, it should be automatic.

Aravintht said:
also i guess he will have to reinstall his iphone to change the number.
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you mean, he will have to re-install WhatsApp on his iPhone for the number change? for now, yes, that is the only way to do it.
 
jkb said:
if you delete his old Cyprus phone number from your address book, it should be automatic.



you mean, he will have to re-install WhatsApp on his iPhone for the number change? for now, yes, that is the only way to do it.
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hmm k - there's no way to 'tell' whatsapp that you're not using it anymore. He basically uses the cypriot sim during summer, xmas and easter - when we're on holiday he goes back home.

Another minor problem i see is someone installs the app, uses it to test it out and then decides for whatever reason that they dont want to use it anymore. Anyone who has added them can keep sending them messages not knowing that they're not using the app - obviously after a while when you get no reply you'll figure it out...but till then you wont know.

yes that is what i meant, reinstall the app.
 
Aravintht said:
hmm k - there's no way to 'tell' whatsapp that you're not using it anymore. He basically uses the cypriot sim during summer, xmas and easter - when we're on holiday he goes back home.
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in that case, split the numbers and simply create two different contacts in the address book. one contact will have cypriot number and one will have regular number.

Aravintht said:
Another minor problem i see is someone installs the app, uses it to test it out and then decides for whatever reason that they dont want to use it anymore. Anyone who has added them can keep sending them messages not knowing that they're not using the app - obviously after a while when you get no reply you'll figure it out...but till then you wont know.
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in future versions will show "last logged in" time for each whatsapp contact and people will be able to see that if somebody hasn't logged into the app for a while they are probably not using it.
 
jkb said:
in that case, split the numbers and simply create two different contacts in the address book. one contact will have cypriot number and one will have regular number.



in future versions will show "last logged in" time for each whatsapp contact and people will be able to see that if somebody hasn't logged into the app for a while they are probably not using it.
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okay thanks.

in the future it maybe worth considering allowing one to select which number for each contact in the favourites section. you could leave the simple touch the circle and the number stored as mobile will be selected. but add an arrow on the right handside where the alphabet is, to allow picking of another number.

If this app is aimed at professionals too, not just cheap students, a contact will have a couple of numbers stored in it and the main number might not be stored as mobile, it could be iPhone or personal etc..


to get around the problem for my friend, i guess he could put his status to using UK number or something like that.

for the last logged in part, you could put contacts that haven't been online for a month to the bottom of the list - though as the favorites list can be sorted by the user, it isn't too hard to do!
 
JKB-

I was under the assumption that the app looks at all the numbers for the contact to see if there's a match (if someone has your software)

Is that wrong. Does the # have to be tagged a certain way in my contacts (main, cell, etc?) or does it look at all the #s for a given contact? If not - it should.
 
JKB
here's a dumb question: in order to conserve battery charge, I have almost all 'push' notiifcations turned to off.

1. can i still us 'whatsapp' without push just to use free text messaging?
2. what does having the push on do to battery life?
3. it sounds like 'whatsapp' loads when you turn the phone on. Anyway to go in and out of the app so it doesn't reside in background (again to preserve resources)

thanks
 
fredf said:
JKB
here's a dumb question: in order to conserve battery charge, I have almost all 'push' notiifcations turned to off.

1. can i still us 'whatsapp' without push just to use free text messaging?
2. what does having the push on do to battery life?
3. it sounds like 'whatsapp' loads when you turn the phone on. Anyway to go in and out of the app so it doesn't reside in background (again to preserve resources)

thanks
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Push only hurts your battery if you get a lot of messages... It'll be no more strain getting SMS "pushed" to your phone or getting Whatsapp updates pushed to your phone.
 
ViViDboarder said:
Push only hurts your battery if you get a lot of messages... It'll be no more strain getting SMS "pushed" to your phone or getting Whatsapp updates pushed to your phone.
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I thought the whole idea was the push notifications are always scanning for incoming and that uses up battery (like Wifi scanning for sites, etc)
 
fredf said:
I thought the whole idea was the push notifications are always scanning for incoming and that uses up battery (like Wifi scanning for sites, etc)
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Nope. The point was so you DON'T have to do that. You're phone sits there happily not fetching any information then Apple basically taps it on the shoulder and hands it some data. :p Excuse the analogy. :D
 
ViViDboarder said:
Push only hurts your battery if you get a lot of messages... It'll be no more strain getting SMS "pushed" to your phone or getting Whatsapp updates pushed to your phone.
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I have to say that after using Whatsapp for a few days now and going back and forth messaging with my wife, there is hardly any adverse effects from push and letting the app run in the background
 
wingsabr said:
I have to say that after using Whatsapp for a few days now and going back and forth messaging with my wife, there is hardly any adverse effects from push and letting the app run in the background
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You leave the app running too? Not just use push?
 
wingsabr said:
I have to say that after using Whatsapp for a few days now and going back and forth messaging with my wife, there is hardly any adverse effects from push and letting the app run in the background
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there is no way to let app run in the background. 3rd party apps can not run in the background on the iPhone:)
 
JKB -

Not to be redundant with my q - but


I was under the assumption that the app looks at all the numbers for the contact to see if there's a match (if someone has your software)

Is that wrong. Does the # have to be tagged a certain way in my contacts (main, cell, etc?) or does it look at all the #s for a given contact? If not - it should.
 
samcraig said:
JKB -

Not to be redundant with my q - but


I was under the assumption that the app looks at all the numbers for the contact to see if there's a match (if someone has your software)

Is that wrong. Does the # have to be tagged a certain way in my contacts (main, cell, etc?) or does it look at all the #s for a given contact? If not - it should.
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it looks at all, but only picks one (usually the one marked 'mobile')... will be smarter about this logic in future versions, but for now just make sure the phone number is marked 'mobile'

cheers.
 
jkb said:
it looks at all, but only picks one (usually the one marked 'mobile')... will be smarter about this logic in future versions, but for now just make sure the phone number is marked 'mobile'

cheers.
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Ok I don't know all of you, but all my friends with iPhones I had them with iPhones in my Contacts, not just mobile, well, there was a reason of that option in there, so now, after installing this app, I needed to change all of them back to mobile. Won't be good, to at least for the iPhone app (maybe you can leave the Blackberry app looking for mobile) to look for both options, iphone or mobile?
 
jkb said:
well, "officially" we do not support jailbroken phones:)

i actually don't have a jailbroken phone myself, so i couldn't even test on one.
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I am Jailbroken, but I don't activate backgrounder for Whatsapp other than it just using push and it works fine. Sorry for the linguistic confusion... :)
 
jkb said:
it looks at all, but only picks one (usually the one marked 'mobile')... will be smarter about this logic in future versions, but for now just make sure the phone number is marked 'mobile'

cheers.
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erasat said:
Ok I don't know all of you, but all my friends with iPhones I had them with iPhones in my Contacts, not just mobile, well, there was a reason of that option in there, so now, after installing this app, I needed to change all of them back to mobile. Won't be good, to at least for the iPhone app (maybe you can leave the Blackberry app looking for mobile) to look for both options, iphone or mobile?
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Might want to fix this. I have all my iPhone contacts marked as iPhone. Not mobile. Anyone not with an iPhone get marked mobile.
 
AbSoluTc said:
Might want to fix this. I have all my iPhone contacts marked as iPhone. Not mobile. Anyone not with an iPhone get marked mobile.
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this bug only affects users who have home or work number stored as 'mobile' and real mobile number stored as 'iphone'. we basically prefer 'mobile' tag to any other tag. but we are fixing this anyways to be smarter...
 
jodysanders said:
JKB - this app is incredible. I love the way it 'just works' with my contacts already in my address book! No need to worry about PINs etc. When I first got it 2 days ago I only had 2 contacts who were using it, but after updating my facebook status and starting to tell people about it, I've now got 20 friends on it 2 days later. We all love it, its different to sms you can actually 'chat' rather than write 1 long message, wait for reply, etc etc. Not sure why it works differently (perhaps because subconsciously or consciously its free) but regardless it works great.

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple purchase this and build it into the iPhone default firmware. Why they didn't include this from day 1 is beyond me, its the ONLY reason RIM are still in the game.

Congrats to you and your team.
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wow, thanks for the kind words. i am still speechless about the fact that you have so many friends using the app. even i don't have that many friends in my contacts with the app:)

we have many more features on the way. next release will feature landscape mode and about gazillion of bug fixes:) so stay tuned..

thanks again!
 
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