This could be a real time-saving feature if QR codes continue to catch on. Viber’s iOS app now makes it easier to forward photo messages. Note that if you’re on Android, Viber’s video calling only works on Android 4.0 or higher.īesides adding video calls, Viber for Android and iOS also now also lets you scan a QR code to add a contact or call a number. You can also transfer calls between the mobile and desktop apps. You can make or receive free video calls to other Viber users over WiFi, or use mobile data if you’re out of WiFi range - just make sure you have plenty of data on your wireless plan. Viber is taking on Google and Skype with the addition of video calling to version 5.0 of its iOS and Android apps. Google says voice calling will be coming to iOS in the coming days. To use the new calling features, you also have to install the separate Hangouts Dialer app, which is currently available only for Android. You can install Hangouts 2.3 - including the Hangouts Dialer app - on Google Play and in Apple’s App Store. And ironically, Google Hangouts still has no conversation search feature. Version 2.3 of Hangouts also adds a completely new interface, but some users are complaining that key features are now gone or still missing, like swiping back to the inbox, swiping to archive, mass-deleting conversations, and syncing the right contact pics. And if you’re at your desktop computer, you can see all of your messages in your desktop Hangouts extension. If you get a text message to your GV number, you’ll see it in a Hangouts conversation with your GV number next to it. If you get a voice mail, you’ll see it as the latest part of your Hangouts conversation with that person, including Google’s transcription and the audio playback option. When you call or text from Hangouts, it will use your Google Voice number, and all of your incoming GV calls and texts will go to Hangouts as well. You can also make Hangouts calls over your cellular mobile network instead of WiFi, but unless you have an unlimited data plan, you’ll be potentially using up a lot of data. You can now call other Hangouts users for free over WiFi, but like all other voice-over-Internet (VoIP) apps, charges apply if you call non users. Now you can now see or hear your Google Voice messages and make free calls over WiFi in the Google Hangouts group chat app for Android - and soon for iOS devices. It’s been ages since Google last touched its Google Voice unified phone number service - remember that? - but that finally changed this week.

Viber video call blackberry