From Google+ Hangouts you can now make calls to phone numbers.

In the sense that now you can already make regular phone calls, and not just communicate within the Hangouts service itself. Free calls to the phone, as always, bypassed Europeans, this feature is available (free calls) only for Americans and Canadians. In general, the Hangouts, as before, is available to everyone. According to eyewitnesses, the quality of video communication is still slightly worse than in the competitive Skype VoIP application.

An interesting feature of Hangouts is that a whole group of Hangouts can communicate with a person, that is, you can hold a teleconference at the same time with the participation of telephone users and those users who are currently working with Hangouts. In this case, of course, teleconference participants who communicate by phone do not need to have a Google account. This feature is likely to attract even more users to the Hangouts, and accordingly, the Google+ social network will have even more members.
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According to the developers of Hangouts, they have long since begun to receive requests from users about providing the opportunity to communicate with users from Hangouts using a regular phone. Developers have met, and now such a function has already appeared. Making a call to your phone from Hangouts is easy now. Just click on the “Invite” button in the upper part of the “Extras” window. Then you need to select the "Phone" tab and dial the number.

Unfortunately, as mentioned above, talking on the phone for Hangouts users is free of charge only for residents of the USA and Canada, everyone else will have to pay. But what to do, we will somehow put up with a similar state of affairs, not the first and not the last time. Get access to new features here . A little more about "Hangouts Extra" as it is called in Russian, you can read here .

Via mashable