Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls

sfcrazy writes Google will integrate Voice and Hangouts with the launch of its redesigned Hangouts apps for Android and iOS, as well as on the web. Amit Fulay, Product Manager at Google says, "Starting today you can make voice calls from Hangouts on Android, iOS and the web. It's free to call other Hangouts users, it's free to call numbers in the U.S. and Canada, and the international rates are really low. So keeping in touch is easier and more affordable than ever."

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Re:Why so long?

[ArcadeMan]

I understand that Apple is anti-freedom, but why did it take so long for Android?

It took so long for Android because yesterday the big bad anti-freedom Apple announced support for Voice over Wi-Fi and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) with automatic switching between the two when needed.

And that's without taking FaceTime Audio into account, which has been available for a while now but since it's limited to Apple devices only I suppose it's evil from your point of view. Then games being only released for Windows is also evil.