Let's have chat about Google Duo

Cristian Level X³

August 17, 2016, 5:15 pm

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Let's have chat about Google Duo

So get this: Google wants to re-invent the video call.
Kinda late to the party right?

Well, probably no, it's Google we're talking about here after all. If any company can innovate and develop better technologies and services, Google can.

So Google Duo is now available for both Android and iOS devices worldwide. Apparently is pretty simple to use and very light weight making it fast and stable for one-to-one calls. I would like to also see similar technology for a conference video chat but I'm sure they'll develop that in the future.

More info here: https://googleblog.blogspot.ro/2016/08/meet-google-duo-simple-1-to-1-video.html

I'm going to test the hell out of this app tomorrow and let you know my review!
Until then, please share your opinions if you have tested this app!

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procoder

I saw this a day ago, and i think it's a great and simple app but i haven't tried it yet. For the moment they support only video calls but i've heard that they will implement audio calls only, which will make it even more better, because video calls can drain the battery very fast. However, this it's not something unique because there are many apps with the same functions, but let's see what's in their mind...

10 years ago

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Lynne

Thanks for making me aware of this Cristian. I'm just wondering whether anyone will bother using it what with Whatsapp and Skype having such a firm hold already?

I will be very interested in your findings.

10 years ago

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Webguy2024

Hi Christian, Google Duo looks like a cool calling app and I am sure it will work as stated.

I am not sure if I like the knock knock function, "which lets you see live video of your caller before you answer, giving you a sense of what they’re up to and why they want to chat."

I guess people will have to be careful not to make calls to family, friends or clients while standing in a towel after getting out of the shower or even worse! Lol!

I wonder how many people will make the mistake of flashing people with unintentional graphic "knock knock" pre-call videos? Hopefully they have a feature that turns this off. Thinking about it, I can foresee Knock Knock pre-call horror shows occurring both intentionally and unintentionally. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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idealmike

So what's so different about this compared to standard video calling on iOS then? I see that it says "Duo calls are end-to-end encrypted". But I thought that Apple encrypted end-to-end video calls as well anyway? It does have a simple and modern interface, but so does the iOS video call function. And I hear that Whatsapp is also working on allowing one-to-one video calls soon as well. So I guess they have a lot of competition and this seems like something they should have released ages ago as people are already used to using their built-in video calls. The knock knock feature is cool though. It could have a lot of practical uses but also could get you into trouble too such as Webguy has pointed out like accidently calling your folks or your ex-girlfriend while getting out of the shower or something LOL

Give it a couple months and we'll start seeing Google Duo knock knock fails and meme's by the dozen!

10 years ago

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Cristian

That may be the case Mike! Especially if Whatsapp comes up with a better feature, I already use Whatsapp so I see no reason in using Google Duo if I have the same feature available in Whatsapp.

By the way: Do you really think Google will fail on virtually every new project it starts?

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Lynne

Yeah I wonder too about this Google Duo. It seems completely useless to me because they jumped on the wagon just way too late with way too little didn't they? I mean everyone already has Skype and Whatsapp. We can even make calls on Facebook now ....

I don't see it making it anywhere when everyone has something else that they are already using.

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I have downloaded and used Google Duo. I think it came pre-installed on my new phone. I tried to have chat with one of my friend. I found the quality of the video really good. You can see that the videos also look good comparison to the Skype. You can see that some of the features of the duo are pretty common with whatsapp and skype. I guess I won't be switching to the duo. I'll take a look at the google duo from there onwards. I guess we have to look at how things go there onwards.

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