Samsung Galaxy Tab S For Dummies

Chapter 7

Text Chat, Video Chat, and Even Phone Calls

In This Chapter

Setting up Google Hangouts

Chatting with friends

Doing a voice chat

Creating a Hangouts video chat

Calling phones with the Hangouts app

Texting with Skype

Using Skype to make phone calls

The LTE Galaxy Tab has a phone number. It's not a dial-up phone number; your cellular provider merely uses the number to bill you. So as far as phone calls are concerned, you're as out-of-luck as owners of the Wi-Fi-only tablets. That's no cause for despair, however, because your Galactic tablet is more than capable of placing — and receiving — phone calls. All you need are the proper apps, which also provide tools for text chat, video chat, and even text messaging.

Let's Hang Out

One of the ways that you can fool your Galaxy Tab ...