Everyone is excited about the new update of the Whatsapp messenger. Yes, Whatsapp is all ready and packed up with a voice messaging feature to take on the BBM messenger that would allow users to make voice calls over WiFi. Mobile application development experts from both companies have curled up their sleeves for a fierce competition ahead which will possibly push the messaging apps to a whole new level. If you think that the cellular service providers have lost the messaging challenge to these apps; next few years might call for a total dominance of apps in voice calls as well. How?
The BBM app already does voice calls, but over the WiFi. Actually there is an acute problem of continuous flow of voice data over the internet. However in Whatsapp mobile app developers have chosen to rely on sending a file type data. In other words the communication fostered here resembles closely with that of a walkie-talkie. Whatsapp understands the limitations of the mobile broadband services in developing countries and have not directly challenged BBM by offering voice call service on 3g. Mobile application development experts had gone for WiFi instead, and then the major differentiating factor would not have been there. Prerecorded audio recorded by a Smartphone will definitely score over voice transmitted in real time over internet protocol. If it was not, then we would have definitely had dedicated g-talk phones by now to make international calls within our data prices.
However, the increasing speed of internet points to a future in which messaging apps will dominate over your voice calls as well. Developing countries such as India have already started with 4g connections and tech companies are pushing the speed-o-meter further to attain 5g speeds. In such internet speeds real time transfer of voice data over IP will not be an issue any more. Our Smartphone will simply flash call widgets and we would be talking to anyone over the internet in the next few year.
Although cellular service providers will then have to remodel and base their entire business over data alone.
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