Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts is a standard developed by Google and imagined at the Google I / O in May 2013 IM service with integrated video and call feature, which replaces the previous three parallel projects Google Talk, Google Messenger and Google Hangout and merges. Currently, Google Hangouts can be used on the Gmail website, the " Google " site, as Android app or iOS app.

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Google Hangouts allows conversations to with up to ten participants. Chat histories are stored on the server side, so that the synchronization of all logged-in devices is possible. This allows Google Hangouts for example to start a conversation on the desktop computer and continue on smartphone without losing the connection. Be Manages the chat history on gmail as mail, so they can be searched and filtered by using the methods offered there for specific words. The chat history is signaled by a reduced semi-transparent avatar ( Watermark ) of the corresponding subscriber, how far it has already seen the conversation.

In addition, it is possible to join a Hangout on Air from mobile devices. However, it must be sent to an invitation from the host, otherwise it is not possible to participate. It also can be started from the mobile device from any Hangouts on Air. Was the participation initially only on Android devices possible, iOS users can be invited to Hangouts on Air since the end of July 2013.

Coinciding with the release of Android 4.4, Kitkat 'has been expanded accordingly, so that it is now 4.0 for devices with Android also able to manage SMS and MMS the Hangouts app for Android. Conversations with the same interlocutor by SMS and text chat are, however, not yet merged.