Google introduced Hangouts: a unified messenger for Android, iOS, and Chrome

Google has quite a lot of various services. Some of them are closed, others - continue to work. But there are services that combine. This is exactly what happened with Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, and Google+ Hangout. For some time, all these messengers existed independently of each other. Today, Google has announced the integration of these services, with the introduction of the unified service, called Hangouts. Today, the application will be available for all platforms listed in the title.

The service itself is an instant messenger like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, with a couple of its own buns. There are innovations that may seem strange to many of us. For example, instead of a contact list, the application will display a list of conversations. In addition, each dialogue will have its own name, it is something like a chat room. Each dialogue can be supplied with a picture or a smiley. A total of about 850 emoticons-emoticons are presented, so that is enough for a normal conversation.
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Among other things, the new service allows you to turn any dialogue into a video call (up to 10 participants). The developers said that the purpose of creating a new messenger was to bring all related services to communicate in a “single box”. Actually, the announcement of the new service was given on Google I / O 2013. At the same conference, the corporation reported a lot of interesting things, as well as presented many updated products.

With regard to Hangouts, the history of correspondence will be stored in the "cloud", in addition, messages can be sent to friends who are not currently on the Web. In addition to text messages, pictures and video calls will also be stored in the cloud. The message history will be synchronized on all user devices (with the above platforms).

Via theverge