WhatsApp to have calling feature soon

WhatsApp, one of the most downloaded Instant Messaging cross platform app is a staggeringly popular messaging tool, but one feature the app lacks is the ability to place phone calls. Analysis of the version of the app available from the WhatsApp website – rather than the Google Play version – reveals that developers are working on bringing the ability to make phone calls from WhatsApp. Our friends at AndroidWorld.nl have provided the following screenshots which prove WhatsApp is going big.

WhatsApp will have calling feature |  © AndroidWorld

As per the Dutch website, phone calls from the app will be made only over Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G. With this move, many of the service providers are going to face a blow due to a subsequent reduction of the phone calls.

WhatsApp calling feature looks like a dialer.

Familiar call logs make it easy to keep track of when you exchanged calls with a particular contact, and the calling side of things is kept neatly separate from the current messaging components. At the moment there is no word on just when the feature will start to roll out to WhatsApp users, but it looks as though work is already well underway. 

Is this the feature WhatsApp has been missing?  Is it something you're looking forward to? Tell us in the comments section below.