The WhatsApp app for Windows Phone today received a major update: Now you can make free voice calls with it.
That feature arrived on Android in March and on iOS in April.
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Facebook bought WhatsApp for $22 billion last year, and now the app has more than 800 million monthly active users.
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Facebook doesn’t plan to charge for VoIP calls, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in April.
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