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Am I the only one perplexed by WhatsApp?
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[QUOTE="Stephan the Painter, post: 1247121, member: 83410"] WhatsApp only communicates with WhatsApp. It can’t dial a regular phone number. It might be confusing because the mobile phone numbers are attached to WhatsApp. If you want to just direct dial phone numbers you have to go outside of the app and use a regular phone or Skype or something like that. If you’re buying a local Sim card to use in Spain, it will be a Spanish phone number. All Mobile phone numbers in Spain, after the +34, start with the number 6 ( or apparently sometimes 7 , but I’ve never seen that) WhatsApp is actually the preferred method of contact for many people in Spain. I always try WhatsApp first if they have a mobile phone number listed[B]. You do have to add the number to your contact list for whatsapp to recognize it as a contact. But WhatsApp gives you a choice to add a new contact when you initiate a call or a text.[/B] Almost always once I input that number into WhatsApp, it shows me that it’s actually the hotel or business. I always send a text because I don’t speak Spanish very well. And I always translate my question into Spanish using the Google translation app. 95% of the time I got a response through WhatsApp. And if there’s an email listed I’ve also used that as well, with the Spanish translation. [/QUOTE]
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