Google Launched Duo Video Calling App to Take on Skype And Facetime

Google has now come up with a new video calling application dubbed as ‘Duo’. This is said to be the company’s response to Microsoft’s Skype and Apple’s Facetime. The new application arrive isn't much different from other video calling application, but there is a difference which makes it a bit more unique from them. Google has introduced a new feature called “knock-knock”, in which the user can get a glimpse of the person who is calling, which will help them not to attend the call from the person who is nothing but just a pain in the head.

The company had made an announcement of the launching of this application in May and is going to be launched on Tuesday this month. Duo will be available for both Android and iOS running devices as free of charge. One more thing to notice about the newly launched application is, the user just need the mobile number of the person heshe want to call, there is no need to make an account and other annoying formalities.

Before this, the Californian firm was offering the video calling facility from its Hangout feature, which has now been stopped as the company has introduced a new application specifically for making video calls. Amit Fulay, Google product manager, said about the newly launching app, “Video-calling is the next big thing, but it has been full of friction, in terms of user experience, and there are trust issues. You need a good network, a good time to do a video call. So we decided to create an app that is really simple and felt inviting. With Duo, we want to make it as simple as voice-calling”. Unlike Facetime, Duo can be used in both Android and iOS, and is accessible via cellular as well as Wi-Fi network.

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According to the firm, Duo is a simple application which allows any user to make video calls just by saving mobile numbers in their devices. The application has been made in a user-friendly way in which even the first time smartphone user can try out the feature of video-calling.