With the new year, Google announced news for its infotainment system: WhatsApp calls have arrived on Android Auto, but with a dropper. Thus, only a few phones are chosen for this new way of making and receiving calls with Android Auto. If you want to know if your phone supports Android Auto callingkeep reading.
We have to go back to CES 2023 in January, where Google showed the Android Auto Coolwalk interface with all its new features. The interface has been taken up a notch to compete head-to-head with Apple Carplay’s multi-window mode, but there were things left to do, such as the time it took to fully roll out or some functions not are only going to reach (by now) certain determined telephones. East the case of WhatsApp calls in Android Auto
Thus, with this new version of Android Auto, it is possible to make and receive WhatsApp calls as long as you have a Google Pixel and Samsung phone. It is to be hoped that this useful function will reach other brands, but it will be time to wait longer. After all, there are several players involved: Google and its operating system, the application and the various manufacturers.
These are the phones compatible with WhatsApp calls on Android Auto
With Android Auto Coolway fully rolled out, WhatsApp version 2.23.9.75 (from May) is the one that added support for Google Pixel and Samsung phones, but which ones? officially there is no complete list of models compatible with WhatsApp calls on Android Auto.
So we asked Google, WhatsApp and Samsung to provide us with a full list. So far, only the Mountain View-based company has clarified this: those with Android version 11 and later. It is therefore not a premium function exclusive to high-end models, but to the most recent mobiles (and those that have been updated to Android 11, in the case of Samsung the list is long).
Considering that the launch of Android 11 is in September 2020 and based on Google’s response, we can expect that all Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy launched from 2021 integrate it.
Later, terminals that have been able to update will support this function. Here are the main Google and Samsung models that have been updated to Android 11:
- The Google: Google Pixel 2 and 2XL, Google Pixel 3 and 3XL, Google Pixel 4, 4XL and 4A.
- from samsung: Samsung Galaxy S20, S20+, S20 Ultra and S20 FE, Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra and Note20, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2, Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e, Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite, Samsung Galaxy A71/A71 5G, Samsung Galaxy A51/A51 5G, Samsung Galaxy A90 5G, Samsung Galaxy M21, Samsung Galaxy M30s, Samsung Galaxy M31, Samsung Galaxy A60, Samsung Galaxy A50, Samsung Galaxy A50s , Samsung Galaxy M51, Samsung Galaxy A21s, Samsung Galaxy A31, Samsung Galaxy A70s, Samsung Galaxy A70, Samsung Galaxy A80, Samsung Galaxy A02s, Samsung Galaxy A01, Samsung Galaxy A12, Samsung Galaxy A11, Samsung Galaxy M11, Samsung Galaxy A30, Samsung Galaxy A10, Samsung Galaxy A10s, Samsung Galaxy A20, Samsung Galaxy A20s, Samsung Galaxy A30s.
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