Whatsapp ends on Blackberry zu Ende †

On my old Blackberry 9360 running v7.1.0.336 Platform 9.6.0.51 Whatsapp has finally deceased:

Change to a supported mobile phome

Know more – OK

This warning that Whatsapp would end 2017 was there since about a year. But when you had hit OK – it had continued to work! Why they just didn’t let it run and run like an old car does (as far as hardware wouldn’t break), or like I do (76), I will never understand.
   Anyway. Today with OK you end with “server not found” or Whatsapp aborts:

 There must be a dark cloud inbetween.  †

Link to this blog entry:
https://blogabissl.blogspot.com/2018/01/whatsapp-ends-on-blackberry-zu-ende.html

Story:
https://forums.crackberry.com/showthread.php?t=1133492&p=13102617&viewfull=1#post13102617

What does Whatsapp Web say to this:

  “Trying to reach the telephone … ”