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Google Babel rumored to be called Hangouts

Jonathan Riggall

Jonathan Riggall

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Google’s rumored unified messaging system Babel will actually be called Hangouts. A user on The Verge Forums has made the claims, and he has some credibility after predicting all the major announcements by Google at last years October 29th event in New York.

Hangouts as a name makes more sense than Babel, which is apparently an internal name. Hangouts already exists in Google+, and is a much friendlier sounding than Babel. It was apparently seen running in Android, and will combine Google Talk, Messenger and Hangouts.

We have already learned that this new service, whatever it is called, will include a new, conversation-based UI, advanced group conversations, you can send pictures and there are improved notifications across devices. It will be available on Android, iOS, Chrome, Google+ and Gmail.

[Source: The Verge Forums]

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