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Google Hangouts for iOS can call US & Canada for free, receive Google Voice calls

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America and Canada will be closer then ever. Using Google Hangout app on iOS you can call anyone in US and Ca for free!!! I said FREE!!

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The Google Hangouts app for iOS is getting a major update this evening that gives it all new calling features on Apple's mobile hardware. Users can call phone numbers directly from the app itself, with no charge for any calls to US & Canadian numbers (international calls work too, for a fee). If they have a Google Voice account, it's even more useful, since it can make or receive calls after the update, with outgoing calls showing your GV number and incoming calls popping up in the Hangouts app itself. Also new, are the better visible indicators of who is reachable right now thatrecently popped up in the Android version, inline animated GIF support and now incoming calls don't stop user's music -- they just pause it. We're already expecting Hangouts to take a step to the forefront in Android 4.4 KitKat.

 

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/18/google-hangouts-ios-phone-calls-online-status-google-voice/

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Bunch of these have been around for years, and on PC with phone numbers in the area code of your choice.

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Well this will just make me look cheap plus the fact I don't call anyone on my phone. But this would be good for a iPod touch or something like that, or make an iPad a iPhone MEGA

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Damn that is awesome. Now they just need to make it worldwide, and available to Android and I'll be very happy.

It's already on Android, seeing as it started on Android. The Calling feature to US/Canada has already existed for a long time. What's not global yet is to get your own custom GV number - which is currently US only. 

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