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The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Posted Aug 1, 2012 0:26 UTC (Wed) by aryonoco (guest, #55563)
In reply to: The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet by denials
Parent article: The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Fully agreed.

While Google Talk is proprietary itself, it at least is built on open standards (XMPP) and interoperates nicely with free software desktop clients like Pidgin.

And while it might not satisfy our editor's second requirement (free of government interception), it does at least satisfy the first one, i.e., it just work; something that cannot be said about the Skype.

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The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Posted Aug 2, 2012 16:53 UTC (Thu) by thedevil (guest, #32913) [Link] (2 responses)

I thought that Google Talk on Android was just an IM platform? I have a Gingerbread phone, and I don't see how to use the Talk app for voice calls, let alone video. Do you know something I don't?

The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Posted Aug 2, 2012 20:32 UTC (Thu) by spacehunt (guest, #1037) [Link]

Google Talk with video first appeared in 2.3.4.

The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Posted Aug 7, 2012 3:25 UTC (Tue) by ghane (guest, #1805) [Link]

> Do you know something I don't?

Yes, yes, I do! <Cue rubbing of hands and evil chuckle>

(I have waited years for this, as you can see :-)