![]() ![]() It integrates Gmail and Google+ contacts together and also pulls other contact information from my phone. Using Hangouts on Android is very streamlined and features two main screens: one for current Hangout chats and the other showing a photo selection of contacts and frequent contacts. It took a couple minutes, but Hangouts replaced all the services previously associated with Talk. Looking in the app manager, I saw that Hangouts was integrating to replace the Talk services on my Android phone. Android and iOSĪfter Google released Hangouts in the Google Play Store, I looked at how Hangouts would replace the Google Talk app. ![]() The Hangouts extension on Chrome OS are different from web and Windows, but they are equally simple to interact with. Notifications for chats come from the Notifications tray in Chrome OS and they contain the user photo and the message. The extension also works in Chrome OS, but it works more like a standalone chat app than extension. You can see who you’re talking to in your taskbar, but when friends send messages, the chat window will pop up with a notification and sound by default to notify you. The chat windows will sit on top of other windows, but you can change this in the options. Hangouts connects to the service and contains persistent chat windows. Google also released a Chrome extension for Hangouts, allowing you to chat with friends without having to have an open up Google+ or Gmail. If you ever used Google Talk or G+ Messenger inside a browser, you will get the update to Hangouts automatically. It works just like Google Talk and Google+ Messenger except it’s one service instead of two. Hangouts is available for use inside the Google+ and Gmail sites. One of the best things about the release of Hangouts is that Android users can now chat directly with iOS users without having to use Google+ Messenger.īut Hangouts is late to the messaging game with competitors like Facebook Messenger, KakaoTalk, WhatsApp, and numerous other chat apps offering more features than Hangouts, like free voice calls and stickers. Hangouts is a much needed update to chat with Google contacts. One of the best parts is that Hangouts recognizes which device your using and only sends one notification so you don’t get them on multiple devices at once. You sign in and the service syncs to all of your devices. Released as an app for Android, iOS, web, and Chrome extension, Hangouts streamlines chat into one simple service. Google Hangouts was previously the name of Google+’s video conferencing feature, but now the messaging services are all integrated into one app. Before Hangouts was announced, users had to use multiple services like Google Talk and Google+ Messenger, along with Google Voice if they made calls. At Google I/O 2013, Google revealed its solution for the fragmentation of its messaging services. ![]()
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