The rumors about a new Google’s product were evidently true. Google’s unified chat platform called Babel has been launched as the new Hangouts with new mobile applications to match. This new service puts Android, Chrome, Gmail and iOS just on the same page for the first time ever and focuses the interface of a device on conversations that carry over from device to device. There are a lot of new features in the applications. So there is a watermark in the text chat to show who is reading or typing. Another novelty is a live group video feature: taping on a single icon within the application invites all the participants to a video hangout no matter which device is used. Contacts are still there though they are pushed to the side in the mobile view. Besides all Google+ notifications are now synchronized: it means that closing one in a particular device means that it will be closed on another as well.
The new Hangouts service sends text messages, photos and videos regardless of the device. The application will save all messages so that users could go back and see every typed word and every sent photo since the beginning of the Hangout.
Finally there has been presented a cloud-based photo sharing function. Google now offers fifty GB of free storage instead of five GB it used to provide.
Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President, Engineering for Google, informed that Google+ has forty one new features planned and that some of them address the need to provide a consistent experience across products and devices of Google.
The Android and iOS applications are already available, for Gmail users there is a “try it now” button while Chrome users are able to install an extension. The Android version of the application currently will not work on some tablets including Nexus 7.
Authors bio:
Angella Brillo, the marketing an sales manager at software development company specializing on outsourcing projects. Writes professional articles on modern applications, and non professional posts on fashion and designer discount clothing.
Finally there has been presented a cloud-based photo sharing function. Google now offers fifty GB of free storage instead of five GB it used to provide.
Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President, Engineering for Google, informed that Google+ has forty one new features planned and that some of them address the need to provide a consistent experience across products and devices of Google.
The Android and iOS applications are already available, for Gmail users there is a “try it now” button while Chrome users are able to install an extension. The Android version of the application currently will not work on some tablets including Nexus 7.
Authors bio:
Angella Brillo, the marketing an sales manager at software development company specializing on outsourcing projects. Writes professional articles on modern applications, and non professional posts on fashion and designer discount clothing.
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