Comparisons are odious, but inevitable when it comes to quickly making something like the video messages that WhatsApp prepares And that, said like that, sounds a bit strange. But if we add to this in the style of Telegram is better understood, because although it does not have the level of popularity of the first, the second is likewise a reference in its segment.
You already know how it goes, or you should if you use Telegram. Let’s leave it to you to imagine; But just in case, here’s the explanation: It’s like sending an audio message on WhatsApp, as simple as holding the microphone button to the right of the message field while you speak, and once you release your finger, it’s sent. Well, in Telegram it is done exactly the same -also to cancel it, sliding your finger to the left- with the addition of being able to send video messages.
If you have to keep the corresponding button pressed to record an audio or video message, to switch between one and the other, all you have to do is touch the icon in question. In WhatsApp, apparently, it will be done by holding down the camera icon. The rest, however, is almost traced to how Telegram does, including the characteristic circle in which the video message is seen – but not heard, until you click on it and it enlarges.
This is what WhatsApp video messages will look like
It remains to be seen if the WhatsApp video messages follow what is set by Telegram or do it in their own way, beyond the presentation, since it is a function in early development that, as usual, they have found in WaBetaInfo, specifically , in a beta version of the iOS app. The only thing that seems to be fixed is, as in Telegram, the 60 seconds maximum duration of these video messages.
And there is no more to tell. Just wait for this feature to be ready and reach all users of the service, which is not clear when it will happen. In any case, it doesn’t matter much, when WhatsApp has never had these video messages, which Telegram implemented years ago; although it will be welcome. It’s not that WhatsApp doesn’t allow you to record a video and send it, but rather that video messages are a more accessible and comfortable method and the videos don’t remain in the phone’s memory.
It can be said that in many things WhatsApp is trailing Telegram, but not that the development of the Meta service is not well active: each time they add and announce -or, as is the case, they discover- more functions that their managers are working on. Only so far this year have we echoed upcoming news such as sending uncompressed images, recording video without using hands or self-destructing groups and although Telegram already has two out of three…
In another order of things, just a couple of days ago WhatsApp released its new application for Windows.
