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If you or someone you know is using an ancient smartphone with WhatsApp, you should no longer uninstall WhatsApp or delete the account, as you might not be able to get it back.
The matter is a lot worse for those of you using the operating system knowns as Windows Phone. Android Gingerbread is now almost nine years old and was still running on 0. The most widespread version is Android 8 Oreo, with a share of Apple always rolls out its updates for a long time for its mobile devices.
The latest version iOS 13 is installed on around 70 percent of all devices. Only seven percent use an iOS version that is older than iOS The current share of iOS 8 should, therefore, be dwindling.
The reason WhatsApp decides not to support some platforms every year is because of the limited number of users who actually use them and the impossibility from the technical side to implement new features. So if you have in your hands a device with Android 4.
If not, consider buying a new smartphone. To find out whether WhatsApp support for your Android phone may have ended, you should look in the smartphone settings to see which Android version is installed.
You can find the version no matter whether on a Samsung mobile phone, Huawei mobile phone or other in the Settings menu , scroll down here to the point About device or similar. There you can see the currently installed Android version. On an iPhone, the search for the installed system is similarly convenient.
It will recognise a hand and suggest the thumbs up emoji, which is a bit of fun, but point it at a drink, and it will try and figure out what it is. We tested this functionality with a glass of white wine.
It didn't suggest white wine to us, but it did suggest a whole range of other alcoholic drinks, letting you then tap through to see what they are, how to make them, and so on. That shows that, while Lens is fast and clever, it's not always accurate. Google has a standalone app on Android for Google Lens if you want to get straight into the features.
You can access Google Lens through a whole range of other methods, as detailed below. The experience is similar whichever approach you take; tapping the Lens icon in Google Assistant takes you through to the same view you get directly in the Lens app. Within Google Assistant you'll see a Google Lens icon in the bottom right-hand corner. You can tap it and point your smartphone camera at, for instance, show times outside a cinema or a gig venue's information board.
You'll will then be presented with a number of suggestions in the viewfinder, such as hear some songs from the artist picked up from the information board, get tickets for the event through TicketMaster, or add the event to your calendar. Using Lens to get information without having to write it down is handy; you'll be able to call numbers, for example, without having to remember them or manually type them.
Within Google Photos, Google Lens can identify buildings or landmarks, for instance, presenting users with directions and opening hours for them. It will also be able to present information on a famous work of art. Maybe it will solve the debate of whether the Mona Lisa is smiling or not. When browsing your pictures in Google Photos, you'll see the Google Lens icon in the bottom of the window.
Tapping on the icon will see the scanning dots appearing on you picture and then Google will serve up suggestions. Support for eight-person video calls in both the iOS and Android versions of the app was added in May From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Google Duo. March 11, Retrieved March 11, App Store. Apple Inc. Retrieved October 20, The Keyword Google Blog.
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