Samsung GALAXY S5 Complete Manual page 66

The apps
You'll use it to...
Chat to friends
Send unlimited free messages to your
friends and contacts
Work on projects with
your contacts
Edit and share documents in real time
Manage multiple accounts
Sync all your contacts into a single account
Start video calls
Create free video calls with contacts
Talk to several contacts at the
same time
Add people to your conversations
Add funny effects to videos
Implement funny edits to your video chat
Fig 1 (right) Your contacts are arranged by
most frequently contacted people up top
Fig 2 (above) Use the front-facing camera
on your phone to start a video call
Hangouts
Hangouts
Use Google's own Hangouts service to keep in
contact with friends and family
Chatting with
Google Hangouts
At its core, Google
Hangouts is a cross-platform
messaging service that
allows you to have text and
video chats with your friends
and contacts from your
Galaxy device (Fig 1). You can
send emoji and animated
GIFs, send and receive text
messages within the app,
and switch between SMS
and Hangouts. The app is
now available on iOS too.
Make a video call
With so many apps now
available from both the
Samsung App and Google
Play stores, there's a real
plethora of video call apps available for download. The likes of
WhatsApp and Skype now have millions of users using their video
call functions on a daily basis completely free of charge and,
although Hangouts doesn't yet have that amount of avid followers,
it does include a selection of cool features that can be applied to its
very own video call function.
Setting up a video call within Hangouts is easy enough; all that's
required is for both you and your specifi ed contact to have a front
facing camera on each device (Fig 2). You also need to make sure
the contact has Google's Hangouts app installed on their device, or
that they are signed in to the web service. After that, just tap on a
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