Google Chat inside the Gmail app for iOS and Android now supports one-on-one voice and video calls, according to the company. The functionality was first revealed in September, but it’s now available to anyone with a Google Workspace, G Suite, or personal Google account as of December 6th.
Google Chat inside the Gmail app for iOS and Android now supports one-on-one voice and video calls, according to the company. The functionality was first revealed in September, but it’s now available to anyone with a Google Workspace, G Suite, or personal Google account as of December 6th.
It’s a little change, but it helps Google achieve its objective of making Gmail the hub for all of its communication services. Even if you start a call from within the Google Chat app, you’ll be sent to the Gmail app, according to Google’s article.
Emails are now simply one of four tabs in the current Gmail interface, among Chat, Spaces (Google’s Slack-style messaging service), and Meet, as my colleague Dieter Bohn noticed out in September (its video conferencing service).
