

Don’t expect any Hangouts mustaches or costumes, but the video quality is solid. If someone misses a call, they’ll get a notification. At the bottom is a list of recent calls and frequent contacts, with another tab that contains a full list of contacts who either have or don’t have Duo.

You open it, with no need for a Google account, and see the camera facing you. You don’t hear Google talk about this all that often, but we wanted to enable the human on the other end of the call to really be the experience.”Īt least Duo succeeds at that. First, “if there’s anything that was our North Star, it was to be super, super simple.” Second, Fox says, is speed and reliability, thanks to Duo being built on Google’s WebRTC video framework to handle HD or 2G. “The logic is that will succeed if they’re solving a use case really well,” Google’s VP of product management for consumer communication Nick Fox tells me, though this ignores the fact that a product needs to solve something others haven’t already.įox explains that Google focused on three things with Duo.
