Nokia Asha Touch, Asha feature phones, Nokia featurephones

If you’ve been wanting to use WhatsApp Messenger with a dual-SIM S40 device, Nokia has you covered. The company announced at Mobile World Congress 2013 that the popular messaging app now work with its dual-SIM Asha phones, rather than only on its single-SIM Asha devices.

“Nokia has been an important partner to WhatsApp for many years,” said Neeraj Arora, VP of Business Development, WhatsApp Inc. “Delivering WhatsApp on Nokia Asha dual-SIM phones in early Q2, while building on the momentum with Nokia Lumia for Windows Phone 8, fulfils our goals of ensuring that our customers around the world can continue to communicate seamlessly with the most important people in their lives. We look forward to great things ahead with Nokia.”

Recently, WhatsApp had also announced that it will be launching a native application for the newly launched BlackBerry 10 Operating System and has been in the midst of updating its apps for both Android and Windows Phone with new looks and new features.

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By Josh Robert Nay

Josh Robert Nay is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TruTower. He has worked in the telecommunications industry since 2003 and specializes in GSM based technology. He also uses (too many) VoIP apps and is a long-time user of BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Phone. He adores anything having to do with space exploration and writing. In addition to the links below, he can be found on LinkedIn and can also be found on his website at http://www.joshrobertnay.com.