Google Android 2.3.4 Adds Video Chat

Google on Thursday introduced video chatting capabilities to Android phones, akin to Face Time along Apple iOS devices, as part of version 2.3.4 of the ambulatory operative scheme. Other Humanoid apps already bid video recording chatting capabilities, but Google has built the sport into the OS and also allows interoperability betwixt Android phones and tablets and computers.

The video chatting feature has been integrated into the Google Talk application, and unlike Apple's Face Clock, works over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G (as seven-day as your carrier and information narrow allows you).

A video or vocalize chat button will appear in the Google Public lecture friends list future to your contacts. While video chatting, any text chats from that person will also appear overlaid on the video. When shift to a different applications programme while video chatting, video will be paused while audio frequency testament continue to run in the backdrop.

Users of the Nexus S smartphone (built by Samsung for Google) are the first ones to receive the feature, every bit part with of a new version of Android (2.3.4). Other Android 2.3 devices will pick up the update incrementally (read slow), as usual, over the air.

"You tail end now television or voice chat with your friends, family and colleagues right from your Android call up, whether they're on their compatible Android pill or phone, or using Gmail with Google Babble out on their figurer," Google's Product Manager Colin Gibbs and Wei Huang, technical school lead, write on the official Google Mechanized Blog.

This is akin to Apple's Face Time video chatting solution, which allows communication between front-facing photographic camera-equipped iOS devices and Mac computers. Just the reward of Google's solution right at once is Personal computer compatibility (works with video chats from inside Gmail on near browsers) and 3G/4G capabilities, atomic number 3 comfortably as text on video overlay.

If you are searching for interoperability between iOS and Mechanical man video chatting, you pot check-out procedure unconscious Fring, which not only connects Android and iOS (including iPhone 3G/S) users, just also works over 3G/4G and Wi-Fi and allows for group video chatting Roger Sessions of capable four people.

To see how Google Talk with video chat works, check up on this explanatory telecasting from Google.

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