WeChat vs. Google Hangout

I was chatting with my aunt from Los Angeles to Beijing over WeChat. It worked fines. The voice was sometime not very clear. The picture frame rate was low. But in general the service worked.

When switching to talk to her over Google Hangout, we experienced a very frequent drop of connections. Once the connection was established, I had to shut off video, in order to hear her voice at all.

It is quite interesting how the Chinese Company Tecent creates WeChat that enables the oversea video calls between nations, while Google service is only excelling local to America.