{"id":165564,"date":"2016-05-18T21:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T19:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=165564"},"modified":"2016-05-18T21:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T19:09:31","slug":"google-unveils-new-video-calling-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/165564-google-unveils-new-video-calling-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Google unveils new video calling app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled a new video calling app called Duo, which will be available for Android and iOS in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Duo is based on your phone number, allowing you to reach anyone in your phonebook. And its simple interface fades away when you\u2019re in a call, so it\u2019s just the two of you,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>Duo will provide users with 720p video and &#8220;crisp&#8221; audio, and has been optimized to work even on &#8220;spotty networks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also seamlessly transition calls between cellular and Wi-Fi, so you don\u2019t need to worry about what network you\u2019re on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finally, we built Duo with privacy and security in mind and all calls on Duo are end-to-end encrypted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CIeMysX76pM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/165546-google-unveils-whatsapp-competitor.html\">Google unveils WhatsApp competitor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/165540-google-launches-home-smart-speaker.html\">Google launches Home smart speaker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled a new video calling app called Duo, which will be available for Android and iOS in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":165566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[36,167,37268],"class_list":["post-165564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-active","tag-google","tag-google-duo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165568,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165564\/revisions\/165568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}