See the list of phones that will lose whatsapp by December

Many smartphones will lose their ability to use the popular cross-platform messaging application known as Whatsapp. The app which has become quite useful to Nigerians has decided to stop supporting some smartphones. Whatsapp Speaking in March 2016 to BBC, the company stated that it was going to end support of the smartphones, stating: “WhatsApp is to end support for a number of operating systems including Blackberry 10, Nokia Symbian S60 and Windows Phone 7.1. “The company said it wanted to focus development “on the mobile platforms the vast majority of people use”. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which is used by a billion people worldwide, will stop working on the named operating systems by December 2016. But it will still work on Blackberry’s latest smartphone which runs Android.” Here is a list of operating systems (OS), Whatsapp will stop supporting at the end of 2016: – Android 2.1 and Android 2.2 – Blackberry OS 7 and earlier – Blackberry 10 – Nokia S40 – Nokia Symbian S60 – Windows Phone 7.1 Here is a list of phones affected by the coming change.
All Blackberry phones, WhatsApp support will end for all Nokia S40 Phones and other Nokia phones including:
Nokia 500
 Nokia E6
Nokia 5228
 Nokia 5230
 Nokia E63
Nokia 5233
 Nokia E66
Nokia 5235
 Nokia 5250
 Nokia E7
 Nokia 5320
 Nokia E71
 Nokia 5530
 Nokia E72
 Nokia 5630
 Nokia E73
Nokia 5700
Nokia 6124
 Nokia N82
 Nokia 6210
 Nokia N85
 Nokia 6220
 Nokia N86 8 MP
  Nokia 6290
 Nokia N95
Nokia 6650 Fold
Nokia N95 8 GB
Nokia 6700
Nokia 6710 Navigator
Nokia N96
 Nokia 6720
Nokia C5-03
Samsung SGH-G810
  Nokia C6
 Samsung SGH-iNNN
Nokia C7
Samsung SGH-L870
 Nokia E5 Sony Ericsson Satio
Nokia E51
Sony Ericsson Vivaz
Nokia E52
 Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro
and Nokia E55 Nokia Asha 201 Nokia Asha 300 Nokia Asha 302 Nokia Asha 303 Nokia Asha 306 Nokia Asha 311 Nokia C3-0 Nokia C3-01 Nokia X2-00
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