Whatsapp for Windoww works great. Separate program, pinned to my
taskbar, doesn't require the phone to be on!!, but I found a problem
with iut that doesn't exist on the phone. With the phone, an entry has
3 dots and one is See Entry, where you can see what phone number is
associated with it.

This doesn't come up very often but fwiw, I can't find the same on the
windows program. Clicking on the inverted triangular hamburger can take
you to Contacts but it seems the same as Chats and no way to see a phone
number if you have named the entry. No big deal. I have the phone.

But it was certainly great to make a call, when no one answered to type
a message, using the full-size keyboard, then go on to the next person I
had to call, and then type another message. Full volume of the PC (in
this case a laptop with USB speakers).

Whatsapp for windows is grrrrreat, says Tony the Tiger.

W Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:03:20 -0500, micky napisal:

> Whatsapp for windows is grrrrreat

What is the download link for that program so I can try it out myself?

In comp.mobile.android, on Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:11:03 +0100, "Jan K."
<janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> wrote:

>W Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:03:20 -0500, micky napisal:
>
>> Whatsapp for windows is grrrrreat
>
>What is the download link for that program so I can try it out myself?

I don't know. I didn't go looking for it. Or maybe I did and I've
forgotten.

But in my downloads file is whatsappsetup.exe and FF seems to show that
I once searched for whatsappsetup.exe download

I would search for that and choose the whatsapp.com link. Oh, yeah, I
seem to have gone there already. https://www.whatsapp.com/download

Oh, yeah, I did. I rmemember now!

YOu can also make a tab at https://web.whatsapp.com/ but that still
requires setup iirc and the separate program seems better. For one
thing, when the browswer crashes it won't take the separate program with
it.

In comp.mobile.android, on Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:03:20 -0500, micky
<NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

>Whatsapp for Windoww works great. Separate program, pinned to my
>taskbar, doesn't require the phone to be on!!, but I found a problem
>with iut that doesn't exist on the phone. With the phone, an entry has
>3 dots and one is See Entry, where you can see what phone number is
>associated with it.
>
>This doesn't come up very often but fwiw, I can't find the same on the
>windows program. Clicking on the inverted triangular hamburger can take
>you to Contacts but it seems the same as Chats and no way to see a phone
>number if you have named the entry. No big deal. I have the phone.
>
>But it was certainly great to make a call, when no one answered to type
>a message,

One difference of whatapp from the phone. When I call this party on the
phone (same number) voicemail usually answers immediately because he
often has the phone off. When it dooesn't answer immediately, voicemail
answsers after several rings.

But when I call on whatsapp, same number, voicemail will never answer.
Like everyone afaik,his voicemail is a feature of his phone service
supplier and it's not connected to whatsapp.

If he had a real answering machine, that sits on the desk nex tto the
phone, that too would not answer because since one is using whatsapp,
you're calling his cell phone, dummy.

So with whatsapp you have to disconect and go to a "text?, but you can
type the text or you can click on the microphone, and then you can
record your voice. I don't see how this can be a text, but it can be an
attachment to a blank text.

OTOH, ith the regular text app on my phone, if you click on the
microphone, you can record your voice, like above, but if otoh you tap
the box where the ext goes and the keyboard opens up, you can then tap
on that microphone and it does not record what you say but it
transcribes it. I find transcriptions a lot better in most
circumstances because you can read them before sending them, reread them
after receivign them, in 10 seconds instead of having to play a
recording. I must learn to be more diligent in saying period, comman,
question mark, etc.

>using the full-size keyboard, then go on to the next person I
>had to call, and then type another message. Full volume of the PC (in
>this case a laptop with USB speakers).
>
>Whatsapp for windows is grrrrreat, says Tony the Tiger.

micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> Whatsapp for Windoww works great. Separate program, pinned to my
> taskbar, doesn't require the phone to be on!!, but I found a problem
> with iut that doesn't exist on the phone. With the phone, an entry has
> 3 dots and one is See Entry, where you can see what phone number is
> associated with it.
>
> This doesn't come up very often but fwiw, I can't find the same on the
> windows program. Clicking on the inverted triangular hamburger can take
> you to Contacts but it seems the same as Chats and no way to see a phone
> number if you have named the entry. No big deal. I have the phone.

Sigh!

You also mentioned this in the Windows 10 group and I explained
how to do it.

Now you post about this *Windows* app, but you post only to the
*Android* group.

So please post to the appropriate group(s). In this case to the
Windows group or (crosspost) to the Windows *and* Android group, but
*not* only to the Android group.

[...]

On 2024-02-12 19:41, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>> Whatsapp for Windoww works great. Separate program, pinned to my
>> taskbar, doesn't require the phone to be on!!, but I found a problem
>> with iut that doesn't exist on the phone. With the phone, an entry has
>> 3 dots and one is See Entry, where you can see what phone number is
>> associated with it.
>>
>> This doesn't come up very often but fwiw, I can't find the same on the
>> windows program. Clicking on the inverted triangular hamburger can take
>> you to Contacts but it seems the same as Chats and no way to see a phone
>> number if you have named the entry. No big deal. I have the phone.
>
> Sigh!
>
> You also mentioned this in the Windows 10 group and I explained
> how to do it.
>
> Now you post about this *Windows* app, but you post only to the
> *Android* group.
>
> So please post to the appropriate group(s). In this case to the
> Windows group or (crosspost) to the Windows *and* Android group, but
> *not* only to the Android group.
>
> [...]

+1

--
Cheers, Carlos.

On 2024-02-11 21:40, micky wrote:
> In comp.mobile.android, on Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:11:03 +0100, "Jan K."
> <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> wrote:

....

> YOu can also make a tab at https://web.whatsapp.com/ but that still
> requires setup iirc and the separate program seems better. For one
> thing, when the browswer crashes it won't take the separate program with
> it.

The advantage being that the web "app" works on any operating system.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

"Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> wrote in news:uqb647$e9k$1
$koziolja@news.chmurka.net:

> W Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:03:20 -0500, micky napisal:
>
>> Whatsapp for windows is grrrrreat
>
> What is the download link for that program so I can try it out myself?

https://www.whatsapp.com/download

Click "Get it from Microsoft".

You don't need a Microsoft account.

W Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:32:13 +0100, Carlos E.R. napisal:

> The advantage being that the web "app" works on any operating system.

Is it a web app?
I thought it was a real app of its own right.
Not a web applet.

In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:34:21 +0100, "Jan K."
<janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> wrote:

>W Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:32:13 +0100, Carlos E.R. napisal:
>
>> The advantage being that the web "app" works on any operating system.

Good point.

>Is it a web app?
>I thought it was a real app of its own right.
>Not a web applet.

There is a windows program which can be started by an icon on the
desktop or the taskbar

And there is also a webpage where most of the program might not be in
the webpage at all but back and whatsapp headquarters. I presume the
webpage does no more than format requests and display something that
looks verrry much like the phone app.

I'll admit I don't know what an applet is so that might limit my ability
to answer.

On 2024-02-16 01:43, micky wrote:
> In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:34:21 +0100, "Jan K."
> <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> wrote:
>
>> W Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:32:13 +0100, Carlos E.R. napisal:
>>
>>> The advantage being that the web "app" works on any operating system.
>
> Good point.
>
>> Is it a web app?
>> I thought it was a real app of its own right.
>> Not a web applet.
>
> There is a windows program which can be started by an icon on the
> desktop or the taskbar
>
> And there is also a webpage where most of the program might not be in
> the webpage at all but back and whatsapp headquarters. I presume the
> webpage does no more than format requests and display something that
> looks verrry much like the phone app.
>
> I'll admit I don't know what an applet is so that might limit my ability
> to answer.

I don't know where the actual execution runs. It could be javascript on
the web browser doing most of the job. Running it on the servers has a
cost for them.

--
Cheers, Carlos.