{"id":64081,"date":"2014-04-07T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=64081"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:46:20","slug":"voice-call-tab-seen-in-new-android-screenshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/voice-call-tab-seen-in-new-android-screenshots\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice call tab seen in new Android screenshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know that <strong>voice calls<\/strong> are coming to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/whatsapp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WhatsApp<\/a> this year, and screenshots from its translation tool have now appeared showing the <strong>Call<\/strong> tab on the interface.<\/p>\n<p>Similar screenshots for the iOS app appeared a few weeks ago, and now we can see the Android version. The new interface is divided into three tabs: <strong>Calls<\/strong>, <strong>Chats<\/strong> and <strong>Contacts<\/strong>. This means WhatsApp will have caught up with competitor apps like <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/viber\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viber<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/line\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LINE<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-64085\" title=\"whatsapp calls\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/whatsapp-calls-340x568.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp Voice Calls\" width=\"340\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/whatsapp-calls-340x568.png 340w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/whatsapp-calls-153x256.png 153w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/whatsapp-calls.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you are in a call, your display will say WhatsApp Call, so you don&#8217;t confuse them with normal calls via your network. Calls will be possible via WiFi or your 3G\/4G network.<\/p>\n<p>While voice calls in WhatsApp are getting closer, last week Facebook surprised us by bringing voice calls to its <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-messenger-4-0-for-android-gets-voice-calls\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Messenger Android<\/a> app. This makes Messenger another apparent competitor for WhatsApp, which is of course now owned by Facebook. It would seem sensible if one product is phased out, or combined with the other, eventually.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.whatsapp.com\/html\/img\/screenshots-android\/en\/Android-Portrait-SETTINGS-01.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WhatsApp Translation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/firechat-for-android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anonymous off-the-grid messaging app FireChat comes to Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-messenger-4-0-for-android-gets-voice-calls\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Messenger 4.0 for Android gets voice calls and new group chat features<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/what-makes-whatsapp-plus-different-from-whatsapp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What makes WhatsApp Plus different from WhatsApp?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that voice calls are coming to WhatsApp this year, and screenshots from its translation tool have now appeared showing the Call tab on the interface. Similar screenshots for the iOS app appeared a few weeks ago, and now we can see the Android version. The new interface is divided into three tabs: Calls, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/voice-call-tab-seen-in-new-android-screenshots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Voice call tab seen in new Android screenshots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-64081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330991,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64081\/revisions\/330991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64081"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=64081"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=64081"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=64081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}