It's that time of the month 🙂, when updates are very close ( if it will come this month), so let's see the new features which are being developed.

1. Calls library saw some improvements.
2. No public beta yet available for Android or iOS with new features.
3. But 😉 , yeah what new strings tell us about it? Let's see

There is possibility that Telegram is working on Voice Chats, Voice Chats could be similar to a group voice call but not sure yet. User can join and leave this chat, members count will be displayed. One can be in listen only mode as well.

Source.

Android Beta 7.3.0 is available now!

With the addition of Voice Chats, 7.3 update looks a nice addition of features.
But the regular way to do a group call, that is pick some contacts and start a call will be missed on Telegram. Voice chat doesn't ring as call to anyone and will he hard to gather friends and family together for a group call.
Hope Telegram do add this common way of group calls as well.

DC5 is down!
https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1335200568038592514?s=19


Update Back Now!🙂

New animated emojis :
☠ , 🔎 , 🔍 , ✨ , 🤫 , 💤 , 🤥 , 🤑 , 💪 , 🤩 , 🤭 , ⚡, ⭐

🤩 Update is round the corner, coming soon in stable channels.

Some major changes in 7.3 version are:
1. Voice chats in all types of groups.
2. Upgrade to Unicode 13.0 Emojis.
3. Support external storage as well.
4. Better service message about who added you in a group.

This would be last update of 2020 year!

Telegram is having facing issues with connectivity right now.

https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1339202014006349825

Telegram's Tdlib based web client is getting group calls as well.

https://github.com/evgeny-nadymov/telegram-react/tree/groupcalls

New Telegram X strings appeared in translations platform for below features

- Comments/Replies
- Proximity alert in live location
- Anonymous admin
- Multipin
- Voice chat recent actions and service messages

#TelegramX #tgx

ℹ️ @KeralagramChannel

Seems Telegram X last update is coming soon!😊

More animated emojis:
🎆 🎇 ❄ 🥂 🎅 🧑 🤶

Happy New Year 2021 everyone!

Telegram has another failure

Telegram problems began at 14:45 Moscow time. Starting at 15:30, the messenger started to recover.

Most of the reported crashes came from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia and Uzbekistan.

downdetector.com/status/telegram/

#crashes

India is 8% of signups and 11% of monthly users on Telegram. No other country is bigger on Telegram than India, which is logical given it is the largest free country in terms of population.