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Wi-Fi calling, also called VoWiFi, [1] refers to mobile phone voice calls and data that are made over IP networks using Wi-Fi, instead of the cell towers provided by cellular networks. [2] Using this feature, compatible handsets are able to route regular cellular calls through a wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) network with broadband Internet , while ...
Native Wi-Fi calling refers to the ability of mobile phones on the service to seamlessly use Wi-Fi rather than the cellular network to connect normally dialed calls, when enabled. It does not refer to the ability to use third-party programs to make calls over Wi-Fi networks, which is generally always supported on smartphones.
VoLTE calling. Voice over Long-Term Evolution (acronym VoLTE) is an LTE high-speed wireless communication standard for voice calls and SMS using mobile phones and data terminals. [1] [2] VoLTE has up to three times more voice [3] and data capacity than older 3G UMTS and up to six times more than 2G GSM.
Viber was initially launched for iPhone on 2 December 2010. It was launched on BlackBerry and Windows Phone on 8 May 2012, [73] followed by the Android platform on 19 July 2012, and Nokia's Series 40, Symbian and Samsung's Bada platform on 24 July 2012, by which time the application had 90 million users. [74] [75] [76]
Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. phone number to Google Account customers [4] in the U.S. and Google Workspace (G Suite by October 2020 [5]) customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the contiguous United States. [6]
The LTE services were launched by major North American carriers as well, with the Samsung SCH-r900 being the world's first LTE Mobile phone starting on September 21, 2010, [11] [12] and Samsung Galaxy Indulge being the world's first LTE smartphone starting on February 10, 2011, [13] [14] both offered by MetroPCS, and the HTC ThunderBolt offered ...
Logo used until 2015. Samsung Galaxy (Korean: 삼성 갤럭시; stylized as SΛMSUNG Galaxy since 2015 (except Japan where it omitted the Samsung branding up until 2023), [2] previously stylized as Samsung GALAXY; abbreviated as SG) is a series of computing, Android mobile computing and wearable devices that are designed, manufactured and marketed by Samsung Electronics since 29 June 2009.
[citation needed] Mobile phones can also use broadband wireless Internet, whether through the cell phone network or over a local Wi-Fi connection, along with software-based videophone apps to make calls to any video-capable Internet user, whether mobile or fixed.