Once activated Viber automatically detects which of your contacts use the app and updates your Viber phonebook accordingly. Once you have put in the code you are offered the option of linking your Viber account to your Facebook account if you so wish. In order to verify your phone number Viber will send a text containing a code to the number you registered with. Getting started with Viber is a quick and painless process. With a clean layout and a relatively straightforward setting up process, Viber has taken on Microsoft giant of communication Skype to become one of the best free call and text apps available. However, WhatsApp does allow users to disable "last seen" - but it is not clear whether Viber also offers a similar window to disable it.If you like to litter your phone communications with a splattering of daft stickers and want to avail of free calls along with free texts then Viber is probably your messaging app of choice! Similarly, now Viber also shows the last seen of your contacts. The last seen timestamp, feature is the similar to the timestamp feature on WhatsApp, which shows the "last seen" for a user. Sadly, no matter how innovative Viber is, WhatsApp takes the cake for being the most popular instant messaging app.Īdditionaly, the update also brings online status and last seen timestamp for your contacts on Viber. With this feature, Viber has yet again proved that it is way ahead of WhatsApp who is yet to bring this inline video playback functionality onboard.
The video playback is not limited to the thumbnail size, users can also expand the view, and also pause the video whenever they wish.Įarlier, Viber used to load YouTube videos on a browser that used to take some time. Now you can watch YouTube video on Viber without leaving the chat box. As you can spot in the screenshots above, the update does a major favor to Viber by offering YouTube support.