In today’s tough economic times, people are constantly looking for options that can help them cut down on the high cost of life, or rather, reduce the hole that communication needs keep burning in their pockets.
This just about tells you how the modern day consumer is very vigilant of how he/she spends and what he/she spend on, with the aim of minimizing his/her expenditure. Furthermore, it is obvious how these people are always on the watch out for any alternative that comes their way offering better (cheaper) means of communication, as opposed to what traditional ways offer.
Mobile VoIP apps lower the cost of communication
The rise of smartphones to dominance has been very instrumental in helping people identify the best and cheapest alternatives to making calls and sending messages to their friends, regardless of where they are. In fact, users of smartphones rarely think about the airtime balances on their devices; instead, many, if not all, are always watchful of the cost of data packs or general internet charges, since it’s all they require in order to make calls as well as send messages to friends making use of these apps too.
Users of Viber and Hangouts have very little to worry about when it comes to cost of communication since all of them make use of data packs. These apps have made the cost of communication very negligible as users can make free calls and send free messages to any person using Viber or Hangouts.
Viber and Hangouts: Head-to-Head
Viber and Google Hangouts are two of the top names that come out when talking about free voice and video calling over the internet. In essence, these two applications serve users with almost the same services. However, they are also very different on other levels.
Hangouts comes pre-installed in Android OS
While both apps are compatible with Android OS, it is only ‘Hangouts’ that comes as a default application for the users of this OS. As long as your phone is running on the Android OS, your phone will be equipped with the latest version of Google Hangouts.
While Viber is one of the most downloaded applications, there is no need to download Hangouts onto your Android device. Furthermore, Viber can also be downloaded and installed on a PC while Google Hangouts has no native app for PCs, which means you must be using Google Chrome in order to use this application on a PC or Mac. It can be argued that Hangouts app has been around for a while since this application is simply an upgrade to the previous Google Talk which was among the first few apps to offer users with free VoIP services.
Ease of use
Users only need a Gmail ID in order to make use of Google Hangouts. This means that once you have signed up for a Gmail account on Google (which is one of the steps you go through when setting up your Android device), your Hangouts account will be ready for you. You’ll be able to see other people whom you have their Gmail accounts in the new Hangouts application once it’s set up.
On the other hand, Viber will make use of your phone number. You can keep in touch with those contacts that have your phone number and are also using Viber without incurring any costs of communication, be it messaging or calling. Your phone number will act as your ID and unlike Hangouts which might require users to sign in and out; there is no need for that in Viber.
So, which app do your prefer? Is it Google Hangouts or Viber? The choice is completely yours.
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