4/28/2023 0 Comments Google hangouts android dialerAfter changing a few settings in Hangouts I'm allowing Hangouts to manage the incoming calls and texts from my new Google Voice phone number. I didn't install the Google Voice app on my phone as I didn't see it as necessary. I set up a Google Voice phone number and the Hangouts app on my phone intergrated with it. Hangouts was already installed on my Samsung S5 and I added the Hangouts Dialer app. Google Voice also forwards text messages directly to my email anyway, and I think I can just reply as I would to an email to respond to a text received on my Google Voice number. I think Google has recently removed text messing from the Hangouts app. It should work about the same in Europe on WiFi. Try using Hangouts on WiFi and see how it works for you. Then install Hangouts, which will automatically use your Google Voice number. You need to give Google your existing cell number to make it work. Go ahead and sign up for Google Voice and get a phone number. Google Hangouts is different it uses WiFi or data, not cell minutes, so it will work anywhere in the world. The Google Voice app (not the service) works only in the US (or maybe in Canada?) because it uses phone minutes, not WiFi or data, to make/receive calls Google has "relay" phone numbers it uses to make these calls, and you can't use those relay numbers while outside the US. Sign up for Google Voice and get a phone number and you can use it with both the Google Voice app on your phone and with Google Hangouts to make receive calls. Important thing to understand about Google Voice: it's both an app (on your phone) and a Google service that gives you a phone number. I have used Hangouts in the US in the same way and had the same kind of experiences: quality is generally good but you may lose the person briefly now and then. (I've since dumped T-Mobile.) Occasionally you get a fade-out and the person may lose you for a second ("Can you hear me now?") but it comes back if you are patient. Quality was surprisingly good though not perfect. I used T-Mobile WiFi Calling - same idea as Google Hangouts and Skype - a few times to make long calls home from Europe, once at the Amsterdam airport, other times at restaurants and Starbucks with free WiFI. I have been using Hangouts in the US now for a few months on my new Android phone and will use Hangouts the next time I get to Europe. (You can use Google Voice + Gmail on a laptop computer kind of like Skype to make phone calls, using your laptop as a speaker phone.) I had an old, slow Android phone the last time I was in Europe but also had T-Mobile so didn't need Google Hangouts. I have used it in Europe but not with Hangouts. I have been using Google Voice for years as my primary phone number in the US.
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