In many respects Google Hangouts is impressive — it brings together Google ’s disparate chat options rather neatly — but you should think twice about using it if you swear on making Google Voice cry from your reckoner .
Those who have update Google Talk in their Gmail accounts — easy enough to do by select “ essay the new haunt ” after clicking your schmoose avatar — are reportingthat it ’s now impossible to localize or get Google Voice squall from the inbox . In fact , as Verge explain , that means the only option for score a Google call from the a computer is to employ the WWW - base calls app , which call one of your connected phones , and can then be rerouted to the person you ’re trying to get in touch with . Basically , a pain in the neck in the ass .
What to do ? Well , do n’t bother upgrade to Hangouts in Gmail if you use Google Voice to make speech sound margin call from your computer . If you already have upgraded , though , fortunately you’re able to revert back to the sure-enough - mode New World chat by clicking on your avatar again .
It should be clean-cut by now that Hangouts is far from a final , ruined ware , and Google has already hint that it plan to impart more of the its Voice features into resort over time , along withSMS supportat some stage in the future . With any luck , that ’ll include make phone calls from your computer , too . [ Verge ]
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