Google’s new app Duo will make video calling as easy as a normal phone call. Think of a kind of FaceTime, but for both Androids and iPhones. The app can be downloaded in the Netherlands within a few days.
What the earnings is behind Duo, is not yet clear. Amit Fulay Google responsible for Duo, says there are no plans to make money on the app . There is also another when you Duo can download for free, can be used without a Google account and the communication is entirely encrypted with end-to-end encryption.
How to do Duo
Duo is very simple to use. You press to video call button, select someone who Duo installed and the video call starts as soon picks up the receiver. This is the app as simple as Apple’s FaceTime, which only works with iOS devices.
A unique feature of the Duo, you can already see the caller before you pick up, as the picture above shows. This only works if Android users call each other, or if you’re an iPhone to call an Android device. When someone calls as iPhone user, you see the caller. This is due to the closed nature of the iOS operating system.
The feature, called “Knock Knock” is a nice gimmick that works surprisingly well. “But it can also be very important,” says Fulay. “Think of your baby is born and you call the family. Your family will see you all with your baby in your arm, making the conversation quite different begins.” The function must videocalls according Fulay create “kinder and warmer
Powerful encryption
Duo is based on the open source protocol WebRTC developed by Google and uses two protocols -. DTLS and SRTP – to secure to communicate with end-to-end encryption. It is a remarkable decision by Google that its products do not normally so strong encrypts because they themselves no longer able to see the data.
“Security has always been a very important part of all our products,” says Fulay. “And that goes for Duo.” Duo offers next Googles upcoming chat app Allo also optional end-to-end encryption. When asked whether the introduction of Duo and Allo with powerful encryption a harbinger of a new trend in Google Fulay do not respond.
What happens to Hangouts?
Hangouts another video chat service from Google, will focus on business users. “Duo is the app for consumers who want fast and easy video calling,” said Fulay. Another big difference is that Duo – like WhatsApp -. Numbers used to search contacts, and Hangouts, just use your Google Account
Duo consumes about 6 MB per minute and automatically reduces the image quality when the connection less fast or unstable. If you have little range, the image will stop put and turn the app on for just a phone call
Competitor FaceTime
In a possible version for Windows 10 will Fulay nothing say. ” we want Duo make available to the vast majority of mobile users, and with Android and iOS you achieve that “
also on whether FaceTime is the major competitor Duo Fulay does not answer.” I think there are many choices and that competition is good. ” But he would like to emphasize that Duo is multiplatform, and FaceTime is not.
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