I would rather audio text message. I want something like Glide, but without video. Sometimes a txt doesn't do it, but I don't want to enter into the time-consuming ceremony of a phone call/voicemail.
Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts
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Re: Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts
#102tinfoil alert
your data will flow through google's RTP proxies (see STUN/TURN). Probably in US.
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#103I can install the dialer, but can't seem to find the 2.3 upgrade from 2.1.2. You'd think this would work on a Nexus 4. EDIT "To get started on Android, just grab the new version of Hangouts (v2.3, rolling out over the next few days)," Why release the dialer in the play store if it requires a yet to be released updated hangouts version?
Google often does rolling releases.
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#104This has been available on iOS for a long time, which I found to be really, really strange, given that you would think Android would be the platform where they'd want to put their more advanced features. It isn't half bad, though -- the call quality, even when the call terminates in an actual phone number, exceeds that of cellular by a good margin, due to what I assume is a much better bitrate being used. And it work…
Handful of Android apps (WeChat, KakaoTalk etc) already had this feature. It's just Hangout that was late.
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#105This is all headed to one login for all your email, sms, chat, etc. Gmail, Hangouts, Voice are all converging. Communication is far more valuable from a data science (aka marketing) standpoint than "social." Who you have as a "connection" on any network is nearly meaningless now, however who you actually talk to is very valuable information. This is why (not trying to start a political discussion) NSA stores meta data about who people talk to on the phone.
Re: Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts
#106This is new? I've been using Hangouts on my iPhone as the only way I make calls for over a year now...
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#107Goodbye Skype! You won't be missed.
Yup. How would Skype fight this?
Re: Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts
#108I can install the dialer, but can't seem to find the 2.3 upgrade from 2.1.2. You'd think this would work on a Nexus 4. EDIT "To get started on Android, just grab the new version of Hangouts (v2.3, rolling out over the next few days)," Why release the dialer in the play store if it requires a yet to be released updated hangouts version?
Google often does rolling releases.
It would be good if they would better manage dependencies with those, so that if you can install the Dialer from the Store, you can also install the version of Hangouts on which it depends.
Re: Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts
#109I wonder if this is why I haven't been getting notifications for text messages on my Google Voice number for the past couple of months.
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#110Free in price perhaps, but I'm not sure how readily I'm going to start using this. Call me paranoid but voice calls are probably the one part of my life right now that Google don't have access to. I just don't know how I feel about handing another piece of information over to them. It's not even that it's Google - I'd say the same thing for any other corporation trying this. I removed Facebook from my phone for this very reason. Just makes me feel that little bit uneasy.