Tango Wins Entertainment Technologies Award At SXSW Accelerator

Tango was the winner of the entertainment technologies category at the SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft BizSpark on March 15 in Austin.

Tango uses a mobile device's data network to place video calls and does not use up minutes of a calling plan. According to the company, If a user has a plan that limits data consumption, then on average, approximately 2GB of data will be used if the user make 450 minutes of video calls over 3G or 4G.

Tango is a free video calling service that connects people around the world with users who also have the application and is used on the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or Android devices. Tango currently supports Android 2.1 or higher, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4G running iOS 4.0 or higher, iPod touch fourth-generation and iPad.

Users can Tango with anyone in their Tango contact list that has downloaded the application to his or her phone and registered for Tango with their phone number or email address. Tango then matches both the email and phone numbers in the device's address book to let people know who they can Tango. Users are also invited to Tango by sending a person a text message or email from the Tango Invite tab on your phone.

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