Question: What features does WhatsApp offer?

Context articles: Sacred Ground (McBride &amp; the Ride album)
Social messaging
Encryption ban proposal in the United Kingdom
WhatsApp
Gloneta (Mobile Application)
Dog park
List of video hosting services
Cell C
Signal Protocol
Gibson ES-5

Sacred Ground is the second album released by American country music band McBride & the Ride.
 It produced three singles for the trio, all of which were Top Five hits on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts: "Just One Night", "Going out of My Mind", and "Sacred Ground", which was originally recorded by Kix Brooks (of Brooks & Dunn) on his self-titled debut album.
 Also included on this album is a cover of "All I Have to Offer You Is Me", originally recorded by Charley Pride.
 The album has also been certified gold by the RIAA.
 "I'm the One" was later covered by Ricky Van Shelton on his 2000 album "Fried Green Tomatoes", which also includes his cover of "All I Have to Offer You Is Me."
 "Baby,I'm Loving You Now" features lead vocals by guitarist Ray Herndon.
Social messaging or social messaging applications or chat applications are instant messaging or mobile messaging (Short Message Service/SMS) clients that are built around social networking platforms.
 Some examples of popular social messaging include BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, KakaoTalk, Line, WeChat, WhatsApp, Telegram and Viber.
 While both require internet connection, social messaging apps differ from traditional IMs because they don't require a computer to use; the chat applications run particularly on smartphone devices, where it challenges other widely used mobile features, such as calling, texting, and emailing.
 Chat applications are topping the iOS and Android most downloaded applications lists.
 More and more people are upgrading from feature phones to smartphones accelerating the move from traditional calling and SMS (which are paid services) to social messaging (which are generally freemium or subscription-based), to become the dominant way of staying in touch on the phone, because it is generally cheaper to send IM messages via social messaging than to send SMS (via mobile company), not limited to the 140-character limit of SMS, and they have more features than regular texting.
The UK encryption ban is a pledge by former British prime minister David Cameron to ban online messaging applications that offer end-to-end encryption, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, and Snapchat, under a nationwide surveillance plan.
 This is in response to these services allowing users to communicate without providing the UK security services access to their messages, which in turn could allegedly allow suspected terrorists a safe means of communication.
WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware and cross-platform instant messaging service for smartphones.
 It uses the Internet to make voice calls, one to one video calls; send text messages, images, GIF, videos, documents, user location, audio files, phone contacts and voice notes using standard cellular mobile numbers.
 Originally users could only communicate with other users individually or in groups of individual users, but in September 2017 WhatsApp announced a forthcoming business platform which will enable companies to provide customer service to users at scale.
 All data are end-to-end encrypted.
 It also incorporates a feature called Status, which allows users to upload photos and videos to a 24-hours-lifetime feed that, by default, are visible to all contacts, similar to Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram Stories.
Gloneta is a payment network and a mobile application that allows to send the money instantly between users with zero or very low costs in the familiar interface of a mobile chat application.
 The app was developed by Luxembourg-based company, SnapSwap International S.A.
, an Electronic Money Institution authorized by the Ministry of Finance of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg to issue electronic money instruments and provide payment services.
 SnapSwap is the first financial institution in Europe that was licensed to offer payment services on blockchain technology.
 SnapSwap soon followed by developing its first application "Gloneta".
 This application has a familiar layout to the likes of Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger while embedding the functionality to transfer money between its users or store the money via the in-app wallet.
A dog park is a park for dogs to exercise and play off-leash in a controlled environment under the supervision of their owners.
 These parks have varying features, although they typically offer a 4' to 6' fence, separate double-gated entry and exit points, adequate drainage, benches for humans, shade for hot days, parking close to the site, water, tools to pick up and dispose of animal waste in covered trash cans, and regular maintenance and cleaning of the grounds.
 Dog parks may also offer wheel-chair access, a pond for swimming and a separate enclosure for small dogs.
Video hosting services are websites or software which allow users to distribute their video clips.
 Other kinds of websites such as file hosting services, image hosting services and social network services might support video sharing as an enhancement to their primary mission, but in general they are not listed here.
 Many services have options for private sharing and other publication options.
 Video hosting services can be classified into several categories, among them: user-generated video sharing websites, video sharing platform / white label providers and web-based video editing.
 Websites that are solely search engines and do not host their video content (such as Singingfish) are not included.
 Some services may charge a fee, but most are available for free.
 Some websites offer commercialization features, such as partnership programs and the ability for users to offer pay-per-view for their videos.
Cell C (Pty) Ltd (stylised as CELL©), a South African mobile company, offers consumers a wide range of prepaid, hybrid and postpaid products and services, including voice, data and messaging services.
 With its focus on affordable access, Cell C is the only mobile operator in South Africa to offer customers Free Facebook through Free Basics by Facebook; and for a capped monthly fee of R12, customers have unlimited WhatsApp usage.
 Cell C was also the first in the country to commercially launch Wi-Fi Calling, a service which has completely transformed the travelling experience for South Africans.
The Signal Protocol (formerly known as the TextSecure Protocol) is a non-federated cryptographic protocol that can be used to provide end-to-end encryption for voice calls, video calls, and instant messaging conversations.
 The protocol was developed by Open Whisper Systems in 2013 and was first introduced in the open source TextSecure app, which later became Signal.
 It has since been implemented into closed source applications, such as WhatsApp, which is said to encrypt the conversations of "more than a billion people worldwide".
 Facebook Messenger also say they offer the protocol for optional "secret conversations", as does Google Allo for its "incognito mode".
The Gibson ES-5 is a guitar produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation as part of the ES, or "Electric Spanish" series of guitars.
 The ES-5 was intended to be an electric version of their popular Gibson L-5 acoustic jazz model.
 The ES-5 was introduced in 1949, and offered several innovative features which have become standard within the industry.
 The ES-5 was the first model of the ES-series to offer three pickups.
 Unlike other multiple-pickup models of its era, the ES-5 used three different volume knobs (one for each pickup and one master tone) rather than a selector switch, to offer players improved control over their tone.
 The model was not as popular as other models of the ES-series, nor as popular as similar models by other manufacturers, such as the Epiphone Zephyr Emperor.
 In 1955 the model became the ES-5 Switchmaster, which incorporated a four-position selector switch, along with a new six-knob configuration, incorporating a volume and a tone knob for each pickup.
 The ES-5 Switchmaster was produced until 1962.
 It remained discontinued until a 1995 reissue from the Gibson Custom division.
 New models of the reissue are still available today.
 The original models used P-90 single coil pickups, but after 1957 the guitar used PAF humbucker pickups.