Google Hangouts will send videos and iPad support - iphoneclub.nl

Friday, February 28, 2014 (10:13) | Bart Breij

Google’s chat app Hangouts features a major update to the appearance of the application better tune in iOS 7. Also, Google Hangouts fully optimized for the iPad, so you can chat, group video calling and treasures. on Apple tablet And: Send short videos. Following Skype you can now send short video messages to others. Google Hangouts

The app uses a limit of ten seconds for the videos you can send. A video works in the same way as a still picture. In a personal or group estimates press the clip and then the picture to shoot a picture. New is there that you can hold to record a video, the button – and who may therefore be a maximum of ten seconds

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addition to videos, you can send animated stickers to show how you feel. In addition, you can show your location to others on a map feature has long been available in WhatsApp and other chat apps. Nice that you’re on top of your contact list on your profile picture can press to quickly share, to approach your settings and manage alerts. Status centrally Also you connect quickly to another account with the app. It is striking that Hangouts are not your standard Google+ profile picture takes on that spot.

iPad Google Hangouts more or less a stretched version of the iPhone app. For example, chats with messages take the whole screen and are characterized by a lot of space between them. The iPad version lends itself naturally good for video calls. The app utilizes the familiar picture-in-picture view of all participants in the video call, and on the larger iPad screen, you just see a little more than the iPhone.

Since the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook last week, the chat apps Telegram considered safe and Threema very popular. If you want because the privacy policy of Facebook you do not like, it pays off to WhatsApp as well watch this before you graduate.

to the privacy policy of Google Hangouts

using Google Hangouts, because you give Google permission to store everything written and said in Google Hangouts recording, copying and analyzing by Google. Google may share information with companies, organizations and individuals. Moreover, Google’s servers in the United States, are meaning that the U.S. government can view information. In our article on chat apps, their business models and privacy, you can read that Google Hangouts perhaps the most privacy-threatening chat app.

Download: Hangouts (free, universal, iOS 6.0 +)