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How to install WhatsApp on a smartphone

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WhatsApp is the most used instant messaging client in the world. Thanks to him we can communicate through the internet in real time simply by having a mobile internet connection or through WiFi.

WhatsApp has been the first application to achieve dethrone conventional SMS and even in many cases has also replaced PC messaging clients such as MSN Messenger, widely used several years ago but currently in continuous decline. Currently the developers of WhatsApp work hard to develop a Vo-IP call client with which to also face telephone calls.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install the latest version of WhatsApp on your devices, regardless of whether it is an Android device or an iPhone.

How to install WhatsApp on an Android device

We can choose 2 possibilities when installing WhatsApp on an Android device.

First, we can download it like any other application from the Play Store for free. To do this, we must simply access the following link (from our smartphone or from a PC) and click on the green "install" button.

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If we have our device associated with a Gmail account, the application will be sent automatically to our smartphone and it will be installed in a few seconds.

Once the installation is finished we will have the icon of the application in our application menu.

Secondly, we can install WhatsApp from the APK file they offer us on their main website. This file is somewhat more complicated to install (since we must enable the installation of packages from unknown sources and install it manually) but generally it is usually more updated than the version of the Play Store, so installing WhatsApp in this way we will enjoy the news before the other users.

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For this we must access the main page of WhatsApp for Android and download the corresponding file. If we download it in our Android we can install it with any file explorer like ES Explorer. If we download it to our PC, we must previously copy it to our device and follow the steps above.

How to install WhatsApp on an iPhone

Unlike Android, on iPhones you can only install WhatsApp through iTunes. At the beginning of the messaging client, the application had a single cost that applied a license for life, however, the company's policy changed and now the conditions are the same as those of Android and other operating systems.

To download WhatsApp on our iPhone we must search for it from the App Store or simply access the main iTunes website and download and install it from there.

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Automatically the application will be installed on our iPhone and we can start using it in a few seconds.


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