{"id":72749,"date":"2014-09-12T00:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T22:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=72749"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:28:53","slug":"viber-messaging-app-for-android-and-ios-gets-video-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/viber-messaging-app-for-android-and-ios-gets-video-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Viber messaging app for Android and iOS gets video calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viber is the latest mutli-platform messaging app to get video calling. Before today, Viber already supported <strong>HD voice calls<\/strong> using Wi-Fi and mobile data. Today, it adds the ability to make video calls.<\/p>\n<p>Viber also added new way to quickly snag someone\u2019s contact information using <strong>QR codes<\/strong>. Now when you meet someone, all you have to do is pull up your QR code for them to scan. All your information will be input into a contact card automatically.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Viber for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> users can look forward to a <strong>new design<\/strong> that makes things easier to use. <a title=\"Viber for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> users can now easily <strong>forward photo messages<\/strong> and sort their sticker packs.<\/p>\n<p>Viber\u2019s <a title=\"Viber for PC\" href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PC<\/a> and <a title=\"Viber for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a> apps already support video calling so you can start chatting with them on your phone.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Viber for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Viber 5.0 for Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Viber for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Viber 5.0 for iOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Market Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/mobile-video-calling-now-available-with-viber-2014-09-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Market Watch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Apple annoys users by pushing U2 album to their iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-annoys-users-with-mandatory-u2-album\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple annoys users by pushing U2 album to their iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"App of the Week: Pixlr\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/app-of-the-week-pixlr\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">App of the Week: Pixlr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"5 million internet passwords exposed (updated)\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/5-million-gmail-passwords-possibly-exposed\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5 million internet passwords exposed (updated)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SwiftKey gesture keyboard will debut with iOS 8\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/swiftkey-gesture-keyboard-launches-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SwiftKey gesture keyboard will debut with iOS 8<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viber is the latest mutli-platform messaging app to get video calling. Before today, Viber already supported HD voice calls using Wi-Fi and mobile data. Today, it adds the ability to make video calls. Viber also added new way to quickly snag someone\u2019s contact information using QR codes. Now when you meet someone, all you have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/viber-messaging-app-for-android-and-ios-gets-video-calling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Viber messaging app for Android and iOS gets video calling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":72752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2646],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-72749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionviber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330178,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749\/revisions\/330178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72749"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=72749"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=72749"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=72749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}