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The apps Hangouts
Hangouts
U se Google’s own Hangouts service to keep in
contact with friends and family
Chatting with
Google Hango uts
At its core, Google Hangouts
is a cross-platform messaging
service that allows you to
have text and video chats
with your friends and
contacts from your Galaxy
device (Fig 1). You can
send emoji and animated
GIFs, send and receive text
messages within the app,
and switch between SMS
and Hangouts. The app is
now available on iOS too.
Make a video call
With so many apps now
available from both the
Samsung App and Google
Play st ores, there’s a real
plethora of video call apps available for download. The likes of
WhatsApp and Skype now have millions of users using their video
call functions on a daily basis complet e ly free of ch arge and,
although Hangouts doesn’t yet have that amount of avid followers,
it does include a selection of cool features that can be applied to its
very own video call function.
Setting up a video call within Hangouts is easy enough; all that’s
required is for both you and your specii ed contact to have a front
facing camera on each device (Fig 2). You also need to make sure
the contact has Google’s Hangouts app installed on their device, or
that they are signed in to the web service. After that, just tap on a
Chat to friends
Send unlimited free messages to your
friends and contacts
Work on projects with
your contacts
Edit and share documents in real time
Manage multiple accounts
Sync all your contacts into a single account
Start video calls
Create free video calls with contacts
T alk to several contacts at the
same time
Add people to your con versation s
Add funny effects to videos
Implement funny edits to your video chat
You’ll use it t o …
Fig 1 (right) Your contacts are arra nged by
most frequently contacted people up top
Fig 2 (above) Use the front-facing camera
on your phone to start a video call
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