Chapter 15
Chatting with Friends and Family
IN THIS CHAPTER
Discovering Google Hangouts for video and text messaging
Figuring out the Google Duo and Google Voice basics
Chatting and texting through the Skype app
Using Google Contacts
A stand-up comic mused about the paradigm shift from landline phones to mobile phones, remarking on how calling a phone number used to mean calling a place, but today it means calling a person, no matter where that person is. Fast forward to today. People can now communicate with typed words, audio, and even video, no matter where they are. What a time to be alive.
Google is in transition with its video and text chat apps. Google Hangouts, which has been Google’s video chat service for many years, is being transitioned into two new products, Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Then there’s Google Duo, a new video chat service that lets you talk with friends and family live, as well as record video messages that recipients can listen to later. Google also offers Google Voice, with text, phone calling, and voice-mail capabilities. This chapter spends time ...
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