I still use WhatsApp on my BB Classic daily. The native app died years ago so it's an emulated Android version, and for a long time I was capped at whichever the last version that supported Android 4.3 was. Mid-2020 I started getting notifications saying I would have to update the app at the end of the month or it would stop working, so I thought my luck had finally run out, but when the day came it gave me the option of updating the app, which somehow worked.
I wish I could run WhatsApp in a VM in the cloud via Anbox and stream the WhatsApp UI to the phone via something like VNC.
The Android-based BlackBerry phones (including my Key2) all support WhatsApp.
They have a progressive webapp, no?
The web app depends on you being on the same wifi as a real Whatsapp mobile app. It’s more of a desktop solution.
Re:People Keeping BlackBerry Alive
by skinnymuch on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:22AM
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Has my WhatsApp always been connected and I never realized this is a requirement? That’s such an awful requirement. Or is it something like having to connect once a week? Either way I see how it doesn’t work if your only mobile device is a blackberry
Right now I am tolerating a extremely low ram KaiOS phone that often crashes... but I still prefer it to Android.