And by roadmap, there IS no public roadmap. Just reassurances that features will be coming along and that visions are in place for Hangouts.
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Hangouts out, Duo in for Google apps pre-load package
Is Hangouts dying a slow death as Google Voice is?The expectation and the hope is that Google probably would let bygones be bygones, but the messaging and texting app may not have a foot in the door in just a couple of months.In fact, on December 1, Google will actually remove Hangouts from the core Google ...
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Google Assistant ‘preview’ in Hindi is officially coming soon to Indian Allo users
The world’s number one search giant sure has a lot on its plate right now. Mostly good things, don’t get us wrong, although on the software front, Android Nougat is taking a little too long
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Will you try to persuade your friends and family to use Allo and Duo?
Now that Google’s messaging platform is complete – or some might argue overcomplete – with its new offerings of Allo and Duo, it’s time to ask ourselves a question. Actually, it’s time to ask a series of questions. Will I use it? If I use it, who will I use it with? Can I get my peeps to use it? Do people still say “peeps” anymore? These are all really important questions, and the Weekend Debate is all about questions, so let’s dive in shall we?Cross the streamsOne of the great things about Allo and Duo are that they’re both cross-platform unlike some other video ...
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Hands-on with Duo, Google’s new video chat app (Video)
As much as we’d like to say that we are all over Skype, we have to remind ourselves that FaceTime isn’t an Android-friendly phenomenon, either. Neither is Google Hangouts an international sensation.So, does
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Google will focus Hangouts on business users, move Hangouts on Air to YouTube Live
How many communication apps are too many for even a software giant like Google to properly maintain and robustly support? Four? Well, hot on the heels of Allo and Duo’s formal introductions at the I/O 2016 conference back in May, Mountain View assured us Hangouts and Messenger weren’t going anywhere.But that stance gets more nuanced now, ...
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Google Duo video calling app for Android and iOS begins global rollout
It feels odd to talk about Google Duo like it’s a new thing, both because the video calling service was unveiled way back in May at the I/O developer conference, and considering it looks so simple and basic you have to wonder what on earth took the search giant so long.But it’s the cross-platform app’s simplicity that makes it so appealing, with very few bells and whistles needed to minimize the frustration and complication of ...
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You shouldn’t need five chat apps
When the Internet was coming into its own back in the ’90’s, we were migrating from “classic” uses (Archie, Finger, Ping, Usenet, FTP, Email, web browsing, etc.), to a more “modern” set. Chances are that you’ve heard of a couple of those, whereas the others have all but faded out of commonality. Today web technologies power most of what we do, and it looks like email is next on the chopping block. If that’s the case, will chat apps replace ...
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10 things that we’re excited about from Google I/O
Yesterday, we asked Google a series of questions that weren’t answered to our satisfaction at Google I/O’s keynote. But we’re not completely negative Nellies here at Pocketnow. But while that list of questions is pretty long, the list of great things coming out of Google I/O thus far is pretty great in and of itself. So, to balance the negative with the positive, here are nice things from Google I/O that have impressed us here at Pocketnow.Split screenIt has been asked for for years. Samsung has been doing it, first on the Note, then on the S-series of phones. So we all asked ...
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A closer look at Google I/O 2016 keynote
Google I/O’s keynote was yesterday and today all the developers are attending learning sessions where they can dive deeper into some of what was presented in the keynote – and a quite a bit more. Now that the hype from the keynote is over, and the glitz and glamor are starting to wear off, let’s take a closer look at the Google I/O 2016 keynote and see what we really learned.Google I/O 2016 KeynoteIn the keynote, a spoken sentence could contain several announcements or unveil numerous changes to the current ecosystem. Sometimes the full impact of what that sentence ...
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10 questions that were not answered at Google I/O
Google’s keynote is over and we are left with a whole heap of newness to revel in. We have new features in Android N, Android VR/Daydream, Instant Apps, new messaging apps, Android Wear 2.0, boy oh boy! Good times are ahead folks. But as the announcements rolled out, I was left with a few nagging questions about some of what we saw.Why can’t you name your own damn product?After months of speculation ...
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Google’s Allo and Duo will join Hangouts and Messenger
You might think that we wouldn’t need Hangouts or Messenger with Allo and Duo coming around, right?Well, Google has confirmed that it will have four messaging applications in its roster. Remember that both Hangouts and Messenger can handle SMS texts while both
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Google Duo and Allo: The death of Google Voice?
Google Voice was a terrific dream, which I’ve been using since before Google owned the actual service. You can have one phone number umbrella which sends and receives calls to any phone number associated with your account. It was one of the first mainstream solutions for texting over data, it transcribed voicemails, and it was compatible with traditional cell phones.Google Voice has stagnated over the last couple years. We’ve seen Google tinker with Hangouts, and introduce Project Fi, but we’ve seen little progress on the GV front. Today at I/O 2016, Google introduced a ...
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Google Duo goes official as secure and always reliable video calling service
The big day has finally arrived, and as we suspected, Google has plenty of neat tricks up its sleeve to showcase to the over 7,000 attendees of the 2016 I/O conference, as well as the millions tuning in from home.Duo basically works as the video calling equivalent of the Allo text messaging service, being described in a hilarious demo on the Mountain View stage as a “simple one-to-one calling app for everyone.” By everyone, Google of course means both Android and iOS users, which will get Duo at some point “this ...
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