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Google\u2019s Duo messaging app recently got voice calls in Brazil<\/a>, but now the feature is rolling out to users\u00a0across the rest of the world.<\/p>\n The initial launch came as part of a series of product launches specific to Brazil, and Google, at the time, teased that an international expansion was just days away. It ended up taking almost a week, but now Duo users outside of Brazil have the option of audio calls,\u00a0according to a tweet from Amit Fulay, the exec in charge of Duo.<\/p>\n On a related expansion note, Google has also partnered with Truecaller<\/a>\u00a0to integrate Duo calling into the company\u2019s\u00a0smart calling app. That partnership is effective in India, where Truecaller claims to have 150 million registered users.<\/p>\n Google launched Duo last year<\/a>\u00a0as an emerging market-friendly take on services like Apple\u2019s FaceTime-iMessage and WhatsApp, which has gotten audio and video calling in recent years.\u00a0Google said last week that audio calls were a much requested feature, and the additional is entirely logical if Google wants to be the center of its users\u2019 communication needs.<\/p>\n Somewhat confusingly, Duo was unveiled alongside Allo, the latter being a \u201csmart\u201d messaging app<\/a>\u00a0with features like Google Assistant baked in. Allo recently got the option of file-sharing, but it still doesn\u2019t include calls of any kind.<\/p>\n Confusion between those products is really symptomatic of Google\u2019s general approach to mobile messaging. As TechCrunch\u2019s Sarah Perez explained last week<\/a>, beyond the fact that Allo and Duo would surely work\u00a0better as a combined entity, Google\u2019s past and\u00a0present messaging endeavors are numerous. The company currently offers Hangouts, which it recently split up into separate apps Chat and Meet<\/a>,\u00a0Google Voice, which just got a rare update<\/a>, and Messenger,\u00a0a service focused on Rich Communications Services (RCS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yet none of those properties comes close to the global popularity of rivals WhatsApp or Messenger Messenger, both of which are owned by Facebook and claim more than a billion monthly active users each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/google-duo1.png?w=680\")
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