Posted February 25, 2013 by Faisal Hashmi in

WhatsApp Coming As Native App to Blackberry 10 in March

When Blackberry 10 launched earlier this year, the biggest question on everyone's mind was whether popular apps are going to be coming to the platform. And at the launch event, they were quick to announce that popular apps like Skype, WhatsApp and Kindle will be coming to the device. While Skype has disappointingly announced that the first version to come to Blackberry will be merely an Android port, there is great news to hear from the WhatsApp side of things.

Neeraj Arora, one of the people working with Whatsapp, confirmed on his Twitter that the application will be officially arriving on Blackberry 10 sometime in March. This was to a query to someone who asked him the question, to which he also followed up and gave the good news that the app will be natively built for the platform and not an easy Android port. Currently, Z10 users can sideload the Android version of the application on their phones but it doesn't quite work as well as you would want it to. With this news as well as the fact that Instagram, Spotify and Netflix are all told to be releasing on the platform very soon, this is exactly what Blackberry needs to compete with the likes of iOS and Android.

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