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Now you can make voice calls worldwide using Google Duo

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Google has added the ability to make voice calls through its official video calling application Google Duo. It started as an application that only allows its users to make the video calls has now launched this voice calling feature.

This strategy of Google with its various chat and messaging android apps is very much confusing. Google recently in 2016, launched two new messaging applications, one for text messaging, which Google announced the chat app as a competition for the most popular android messaging app WhatsApp and the other one is the video calling application which can be used for making video calls over the internet.

But the Google Duo app now allows the users to make voice calls as well just like Hangouts which Google recently split into two Chat and Meet.

Google introduced both of these apps to keep things simple. If you already have the Google Duo android app on your device, then all you need to do is just update the app, then you will find a toggle button where you need to switch from video to audio for making voice calls.

Google has been launching and updating, making changes to its various apps, but sadly none of them is a big hit and none of them has gained popularity.

Nokia is planning to introduce 5G in India with popular Telecom operators

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Sooner or later we are all going to experience blazing 5G speeds in India. Phone manufacturing and telecom equipment maker Nokia is in talks with major telecom operators in India to begin trials of the upcoming 5G technology. If everything went well, 5G connectivity would be available in a short span of time.

As an end user, we can achieve up to 100 Mbps download speeds with 5G network and if it commercialized by the year 2020 up to 1000 times more traffic can be possible through the same 5G network.

Existing 3G, 4G networks became hubs for voice, videos calls and data communication like movie download, video streaming, etc. Once 5G networks became a reality, the complete scenario will change. By utilizing those higher transfer rates mission, critical tasks can be handled through mobile devices such as remote doctor surgeries, etc.,

“Discussion about spectrum (at the global level) in which 5G will operate will finish by 2019. Commercial 5G deployment will start in 2020. Then you will see 100 Mbps guaranteed speed everywhere”, Nokia Networks Head of Mobile Broadband Milivoj Vela said.

Still 4G connectivity has to roll out to the major portion of India. It will take up to 1-2 years for the 4G expansion across the country. For 5G, we have to wait another few years.

Now you can send SMS through Facebook Messenger

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Facebook is adding more and more features to its Messenger platform. Earlier Facebook treated Messenger as only a chat companion, which allows personal communication in between Facebook friends.

In those days, I didn’t have any advantage with the Facebook messenger because I am not interested in making chat conversations. That’s why I didn’t install Facebook Messenger and sometimes used “Facebook Chat Enabler” application, to enable chat without the Facebook messenger.

Now things changed a lot and myself, I convinced by Facebook messenger benefits. Facebook is trying to push innovative features to its messenger platform. Every other day I come across Facebook plans to introduce new functionality to the Messenger application.

Today Facebook is slowly rolling out regular SMS and voice call support to the messenger users. If your account got this feature, you need to set the messenger application as the default of SMS client. Now on words, you can send regular SMS through Facebook messenger without any additional SMS charges.

It may take a few days to a few months to get this feature in India. So just be patient.

Good News.. Now you can make Facebook Group Voice Calls

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Good news for Facebook Users, now you can make Group voice calls through your Android and iOS device. Facebook started the global roll out of this feature. So you can get this feature anytime within a couple of days.

Facebook offering Voice calling facility to its users since long time. This new feature allows them to engage in family and friends voice chit chats.

You can add maximum 50 members to the group call. Each user can see other user profiles while they are part in a Group call.

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Facebook Messenger Chief David Marcus announced this. He mentioned.. “Really excited to announce the global roll out of group calling in Messenger today. From any group conversations, just tap on the phone icon to initiate a group call. You can then manage individual participants on the next screen. If you have the latest version of Messenger, you should see the phone icon appear in group conversations within the next 24 hours. Give it a try, and as always, let us know how we can make it even better for you!”

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At F8 Developer conference Facebook already introduced bots support for Facebook, which can be useful for businesses to communicate and support their users through Messenger application. Now this group calling facility provides more functionality to Messenger fans who spend more time on that.