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.
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