Google+ users can now use Hangouts on iPhone, iPad

Odd. I remember being able to use Hangout from my iPhone a year ago. It must have been dropped in the makeover.

We use Hangouts with increasing regularity. Just today I participated in one with 5 folks -- 2 from Brazil (different PCs in same office, 1 from India, and 2 from the US (different offices). It worked as well as our network allowed, which is to say good enough and much better than just using the phone (which, with VOIP, isn't always much better).

Hangouts is nice, but why did they drop Messenger from the iPad app? I used it regularly on my iPad prior to the update.

The original content is about the new APP one can now pull through iTunes. Here's Google's original post. <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/google-app-for-ipad-available-now-in.html" rel="nofollow">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/google-app-for-ipad-a...</a>

Hangouts have worked the iPhone using the Google+ App for at least a year.

I did a Hangout for a work meeting recently, and the audio quality was terrible. I think we had 4 participants, and every time someone said something it would be "reverbed" like a speech in a stadium. It sucked.