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07-13-2016, 01:01 PM
2 years after iOS, Google Hangouts on Android gets video messaging
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Google has updated its Hangouts app for Android with the ability to record and send videos to other users.*
The video is limited to one minute in duration, and you can either record the video directly from the app, or send a previously recorded video.*
SEE ALSO: Google an**unces 'smart messenger' Allo (http://mashable.com/2016/05/18/google-allo/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
The update is somewhat odd as this same feature has been available to iOS users since February 2014 (http://mashable.com/2014/02/27/google-updates-hangouts-ios/). Google usually introduces new features to Android versions of its apps first, and then brings them to iOS, but for some reason, Android users had to wait two-and-a-half years for video messaging. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/google-hangouts-android-video-messaging/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Google has updated its Hangouts app for Android with the ability to record and send videos to other users.*
The video is limited to one minute in duration, and you can either record the video directly from the app, or send a previously recorded video.*
SEE ALSO: Google an**unces 'smart messenger' Allo (http://mashable.com/2016/05/18/google-allo/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
The update is somewhat odd as this same feature has been available to iOS users since February 2014 (http://mashable.com/2014/02/27/google-updates-hangouts-ios/). Google usually introduces new features to Android versions of its apps first, and then brings them to iOS, but for some reason, Android users had to wait two-and-a-half years for video messaging. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/google-hangouts-android-video-messaging/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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