Duo call came though just like he had the app.”

he runs a Nexus 6P, stock 8.1 and he DOES NOT have Duo installed (I double checked his phone) he was showing up as having Duo installed (he didn’t have an “invite” next to his name) so I called him. The post by the Reddit user says, “ so I talked to my buddy.

The user was also able to make a call on the Nexus 6P for the Duo app and it went through. Google has not confirmed whether it will soon add Duo app into the Play Services, though there is indication this might take place.Īccording to the post shared on shared by a user named ‘turdbogis’ he noticed that another friend’s Nexus 6P unit showed that it was ready to accept Duo video calls without the app being installed on the smartphone. It should be noted that in India, Google had partnered with many smartphone OEMs to pre-install the Duo app on budget devices. The video-calling app from Google has between 100-500 million downloads, according to the Play Store. Will Google Duo end up being the equivalent of Apple’s FaceTime on Android? New reports indicate this might just happen as users on Reddit have reported the app appears to be working even on phones where it is not installed at all. Joe brings that same passion to How-To Geek.Google Duo calls are working on Android phones without the app installed, report users. If something piques his interest, he will dive into it headfirst and try to learn as much as possible. Outside of technology, Joe is an avid DIYer, runner, and food enthusiast. After several years of jailbreaking and heavily modifying an iPod Touch, he moved on to his first smartphone, the HTC DROID Eris. He got his start in the industry covering Windows Phone on a small blog, and later moved to Phandroid where he covered Android news, reviewed devices, wrote tutorials, created YouTube videos, and hosted a podcast.įrom smartphones to Bluetooth earbuds to Z-Wave switches, Joe is interested in all kinds of technology. He has written thousands of articles, hundreds of tutorials, and dozens of reviews.īefore joining How-To Geek, Joe worked at XDA-Developers as Managing Editor and covered news from the Google ecosystem. Joe loves all things technology and is also an avid DIYer at heart. He has been covering Android and the rest of the Google ecosystem for years, reviewing devices, hosting podcasts, filming videos, and writing tutorials. Joe Fedewa has been writing about technology for over a decade.

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