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Whatsapp for BADA OS

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Whatsapp for Bada OSWhatsapp is one of the most popular apps out there to send videos, pictures, and texts all over the globe and yes… you’re probably wondering if you can use it on your new Bada OS smartphone.
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Today there are over 600 million Whatsapp users worldwide: in India alone there are over 70 million users that make use of Whatsapp daily and the level of compatibility with different Operating System is hopefully growing constantly but… what about Bada Os smartphones?

Bada OS is an operating system that is mainly used on Samsung phones. This operating system was released in 2009 and was found to have a fairly good adoption rate. It was first used on a smartphone in 2010. The first phone that this was used on was the Samsung Wave.

Many larger companies showed their support for this operating system, and that helped with the popularity of this operating system. Samsung also created the samsung app store. This store has over 2400 apps available. There is some problem trying to use different apps on Bada, but it can be done, you just need to know how get this accomplished.

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So, if you’re still wondering whether or not a special version of WhatsApp for Bada exists, unfortunately the answer is that (at this moment) the founders of the most famous and widespread application to send and receive free messages and multimedia content, have not yet released a specific version of WhatsApp for Bada. In fact, although there is no problem using WhatsApp on operating systems such as iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone and Nokia, and despite Bada is actually very common on many Smartphone (such as the Samsung Wave) the final agreement necessary to have WhatsApp on Bada OS has not yet been sealed.

The reasons for the failure to release a WhatsApp version for Bada is probably that, given the few number of Bada OS owners, the costs for WhatsApp programmers to do a specific version for this OS could be too high, relative to potential earnings that this could generate to Facebook (the owner). Apparently, Facebook is not yet interested in conquering 100% of market share, like the one represented by the owners of OS Bada smartphones. But… is there still any hope for the future? Recently, Samsung has announced the upcoming deployment of  new applications for the operating system Bada. Nothing, however, has been leaked about the possibility of a future version of WhatsApp for Bada. The solution? You have 2 options: first option is to install Chrome browser for Bada and then connecting to Whatsapp Web service. This is quite a limited solution but, at least, it works. Another option (easier) is just to install a good alternative like Viber, Skype or, even better, Telegram: as explained here.

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Whatsapp for UBUNTU LINUX

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Whatsapp for Ubuntu

How to get WhatsApp to work on Ubuntu 14.04

Before you can install Whatapp on Ubuntu, you will need to have all the prerequisites. To ensure you have everything needed you need to run a few commands in your shell. You will need administrative rights in order to do this.

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Here are the needed commands. Start with typing ‘Sudo apt-get install python python-dateutil python-argparse’ in your command shell. Then you will need to get the main program to get WhatsApp running. You will need to input this into your command shell

Type without the parenthesis ‘wget https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/archive/master.zip‘ Once the program has downloaded, you will need to be in that directory to unzip the file. If you do not have an unzip utility, then you will need to download and install that. To do this, just simply type ‘sudo apt-get install unzip’ in the command shell.

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Once this is done you can now unzip master.zip. Type unzip master.zip to unpacked this zip file. After that has finished unpacking, then you are ready to start the install process. Change directories into the working directory by typing ‘cd yowsup-master/src’. Once there, you will need to rename the main configuration file. To do that, you must type ‘config.example yowsup-cli.config‘ into your command shell. Now you must edit the config file. For this, you will type ‘gedit yowsup-cli.config’ into your command line interface.

We are now onto step two of the install process. The first thing in this step will be editing your config file. You should now be in your editor. Find the line that says “phone=xxxxxxxxxx“, once you find this line, enter your own phone number with country code. At this point, you will save your file and exit Gedit. Now you will need to change the permisions of your config file. Type sudo chmod +x yowsup-cli, this will give your user account permisions to run the file. Now you need to run Yowsup by typing ‘./yowsup-cli –requestcode sms –config yowsup-cli.config. This will request an authorization code for your app. The code will look like “XXX-XXX”. Before you close the terminal, you will need to save the information that was outputted. To do this press shift and c and save the file as “yowsup.txt”.

pidgin-2.8.0Now that you have the backend done, it is time to work on the messaging app. For this, we will be using Pidgin. We will need to install pidgin and a plugin for Whatsapp. First, you will need to open another command line interface. To install the repository for the plugin that is needed, you will need to type ‘sudo add-apt-repository ppa:whatsapp-purple/ppa’. After that you will need to type ‘sudo apt-get update’. Once the system is finished updating the repositories, you will then need to install Pidgin and the Whatsapp plugin by typing ‘sudo apt-get install Pidgin pidgin-whatsapp. This install will take a moment or two to complete.

Now you re ready to run Whatsapp messaging. From your dropdown menu, select WhatsApp and input your information. You can find the needed information in the text file you saved earlier. You will need to input the phone number with country code and your password. The password that you will need may look like “pw: longpassword“. One last note, your WhatsApp on your phone (e.g. new samsung models) should not be used at the same time as WhatsApp on your computer.