The icing on the cake? Video calling is on the way, thanks to recently uncovered beta testing on the Android version of WhatsApp. It’s just as streamlined as anything that comes packaged with Apple’s iOS device or Google’s Android operating system. It’s intimately integrated with your phone’s contact list, and more than most messaging services, it can stand as a true replacement to your mobile device’s built-in text messaging system. Thanks to its resilience to the types of advertising, feature bloat, and unnecessary flash that so plagues many mobile messaging apps, WhatsApp has kept its niche fairly well over many years. One of those that’s withstood the test of time and still boasts millions of daily users is WhatsApp, which is now much more accessible than ever before, now that you can access it from your Mac or Windows PC (with operating systems ranging from XP, Vista, 7, 8, or 10.) Many users still think that you need an emulator to get the WhatsApp experience up and running on your desktop or laptop computer, but thanks to changes made by the WhatsApp developers, that’s no longer the case! If you’re as connected as the rest of the world is these days, there’s a good chance that you have friends spread across a wide variety of mobile messaging apps.