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Google launches video chatting app to keep up with FaceTime and Skype

Analysts say Duo is seen as Google’s response to Apple’s FaceTime, Facebook’s Messenger and Microsoft’s Skype after video calls on Google Hangouts did not take hold as expected.

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Duo is available on Android phones and Apple’s iPhones and requires that you save the phone numbers of users in order to make calls. Users can switch between Wifi and mobile data without dropping the call and voice-only calls are expected to commence soon, according to Google.

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Perhaps the major significant difference between Duo and other apps on the market is the ‘knock knock’ feature which allows users to see the face of the caller, from where they are calling before they can decide whether to answer or not.

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Duo has been praised by experts for its relative simple features which make for easy use among its users.

Some of Google’s other major projects include ongoing testing of driverless cars and a plan to launch a new service called Allo, a computer software that suggests comments and responses to text messages, photos, and videos.

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