Chapter 7
Text Chat, Video Chat, and Even Phone Calls
In This Chapter
Setting up Google Hangouts
Chatting with friends
Doing a voice chat
Creating a Hangouts video chat
Calling phones with the Hangouts app
Texting with Skype
Using Skype to make phone calls
The LTE Galaxy Tab has a phone number. It's not a dial-up phone number; your cellular provider merely uses the number to bill you. So as far as phone calls are concerned, you're as out-of-luck as owners of the Wi-Fi-only tablets. That's no cause for despair, however, because your Galactic tablet is more than capable of placing — and receiving — phone calls. All you need are the proper apps, which also provide tools for text chat, video chat, and even text messaging.
Let's Hang Out
One of the ways that you can fool your Galaxy Tab ...
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