You can head over to the Google Play Store or the App Store, to download the latest version of Viber. Earlier this year, Viber was acquired by Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten, for a deal believed to be worth $900 million. Viber recently announced that it had over 100 million active users on the app at any given moment of time, and was fast catching up with its chief competitor Skype, which has over 300 million monthly active users.
In addition to video calling, the updated apps introduce the ability to add new friends by scanning their QR code, as well as a new design. WhatsApp too is expected to release voice-calling feature later this year. Facebook Messenger allows you to make free voice-calls to any other Facebook user who has Messenger app installed on their handset. Viber isn t the first IM client to support voice calls, several of its rivals including Line, Skype and WeChat also offer this features. Also Read - Top 5 video calling apps you can use for work from home in 2021
Now that you can make video calls from your phone as well as on your PC and Mac, you can always talk in the way that s most convenient for you, wherever you happen to be. We re delighted to bring video calling to mobile, Talmon Marco, Viber CEO said. The app was already offering free audio calls, texts and voice and video messages. Thanks to Viber s cross-platform availability, you can make video calls from phones, as well as PCs and Macs.
Also Read - Google Meet: Top 5 feature that you need to know now Also Read - WhatsApp new feature: Contacts on the Android app will now look different for beta users In addition to video calling, the latest version of the Android and iOS apps also get the ability to share contacts using QR codes, among other new features. Popular mobile messaging service Viber has added video calling capability to its Android and iOS apps in the latest update. Especially because it doesn't require email to use,but only phone number. If Google delivers that,than I will have no problems to make people try this app. įor anyone that doesn't know Duo will use new protocol called QUIC that's supposed to be more robust than any other video calling protocol we have today. I was telling my sister about Duo back when was introduced, before going on vacation she asked me "is that app out" ( I discribed Duo as app like Viber that should have better video quality than current apps, Google words). Turn On Hidden Chats There are always some chats that are private and intimate and they need an extra layer of security and privacy. Today she called me on Hangouts without even trying on Viber first. Step 5: From the pop-up menu, select My Contacts instead of Anyone for more Viber app privacy. In the evening, she tried calling on Viber but after 10 seconds she hang up and called me on Hangouts. Sound was clear without noise and video was stable. My sister said we should try facebook messenger,same story(even worse,there was interruptions in the video).Īnd then I said we should try Hangouts, I was amazed by huge difference in sound and video quality.
My sister is on vacation out of the country, we use Viber to communicate so we tried to make a video call on Viber, I was suppressed by all the noise in the background and poor sound and video quality because both of us were connected on good wifi connection. I know how we all hate Hangouts (for reason) and making jokes about this app all the time, but in the last two days I found that this app has really good video call quality and noise cancellation.