Calls from US to India too, at a small price.
By Dileep Thekkethil
BANGALORE: In what appears to be a boon for relatives and friends of Non Resident Indians in Canada and the United States, Google India has integrated Google Voice in the latest update of Google Hangouts, enabling free voice call.
BANGALORE: In what appears to be a boon for relatives and friends of Non Resident Indians in Canada and the United States, Google India has integrated Google Voice in the latest update of Google Hangouts, enabling free voice call.
The updated Google Hangouts, version 2.3, also brings to it features such as MMS and SMS. The new update has leveraged the reach of Hangouts, which otherwise would have took more time to reach the mass.
Google India also announced that if the users spend a minimum cost for adding credit to Voice call they can make excellent global voice calls at cheaper rates. They also said that the first minute of the voice call will be free for all users and the call will automatically get disconnected after 60 sec.
Let’s see how the new voice call feature of Hangouts works:
- Hangouts users can make calls to any other Hangouts user in the globe for free.
- Users in India can now call phone numbers in Canada and the United States for free
- Hangouts users will also get excellent call rates for contacting their family and friends living in other countries
- Free Voice call will be available only for users in India
- The users in the US will have to add credit to make calls to India
- Hangouts can be used in PC, or can be installed in Android based phones by downloading Hangouts Dialler.
Google India announced in a Google+ post that, “Starting today, the Hangoutss app on your phone will help you stay connected with your family and friends around the world in more ways than ever. Now you can make voice calls to phone numbers outside of India on Android, iOS, and the Web from Hangouts in Gmail.”
They also added, “You can make and receive calls as well as get your text messages and voicemails for your Google Voice number through Hangouts. To use Google Voice with your Hangouts account, you need to have a U.S. Google Voice account and number.”
You can download Google Hangouts for Android from Google Play store.