Once you tap any one of these contacts, a call is initiated. Once you’ve got your Tango open, you’ll notice your list (again, auto-populated,) of contacts that have Tango. NOTE that when you open Tango for the first time, if you’re downloading anywhere near the posting of this review, the majority of the people you’ll see on your list are going to more than likely be on iPhone, as the app has been promoted for them more successfully than it has at this point for Android. If you can make this happen, Tango is probably a pretty good service for you. Of course this is all limited by the fact that the people you’re going to communicate with on Tango will also have to have Tango downloaded to their device. You’ll now be able to make voice and/or video calls to everyone you know who also has Tango without using up your carrier plan’s voice or video minutes (if your carrier has such a charge, of course.) This means that your communication via voice and video is now instead only charged to your data plan, which supposing you’ve got infinite of, will result in you possibly having a much cheaper bill each month. Once you’ve got this set up, you’re good to go. You DO have to have push notifications active however, this accessible to you by going into your device’s settings – notifications – turn global notifications ON – scroll down and tap Tango and turn sounds and alerts ON. You do not have to have Tango up and running to be able to receive voice and/or video calls. The black box in the lower left-hand corner will show (as you can see from the photo above) the video that your chat partner will be seeing of you.
NOTE: The screenshots you see in this post are able to pick up the incoming video, but unable to pick up the outgoing for some reason. Both appeared to have run the app without a hitch. The account you’re seeing in this post is done from an HTC ThunderBolt and to an HTC ThunderBolt. My partner in crime Vincent from SlashGear was with at the time, so we both fired up the app and took a look at how nice it looked. This is such good news that upon seeing it, my eyeballs exploded. Once you’ve got the app, you’ll notice that it’s auto-populated with contacts of yours that also have the Tango app up and running.
This is all good news, and the app is free, therefor the download is basically guaranteed.
The app is free and has a brand presence outside of the app. I wont get into the making of thumbnails here, as that’s enough subject to fill out a whole different post, but let’s just say they’re doing it right.
It’s attractive and professional looking, inviting the user to join in on an already established brand that also just happens to have an application. The icon for this application is a big fat white T inside a bright orange rounded-corners square.