Feb192013

Why do I not see Gmail’s free phone service on my tablet when connected to a hotspot?

Dan Bromberg asks:

On my desktop PC I see where my GMail account has a free phone service built into it. But when I take my tablet to a hotspot, I don’t see that feature built into GMail – how come? Any way to get it?

Thanks,
Dan


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ha14

February 19, 2013

call phone feature uses the Gmail chat voice & video plugin perhaps this plugin do not exist for your table or by design do not work on tablets.

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Junil Maharjan

February 20, 2013

the free phone requires voice plugins in gmail which can be installed on pc. but tablet versions of gmail also provided mobile interface which does not have these features.

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susendeep dutta

February 20, 2013

I suppose you are using Android tablet.

Since,such features on a app requires to be build and worked upon separately,so you can’t see them.When such features do come,all the blogs brings them to notice.

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Alice Cooper

March 11, 2013

There is an Android app GrooveIP that works pretty seamlessly with Google Voice. When i run out of voice minutes I just switch over to GrooveIP and then I have unlimited voice calls on wi-fi and over my data service.
Alice from http://britainloans.co.uk/

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