Google is rolling out a new messaging app called Hangouts which combines some of the features of Google Talk and Google+ Hangouts. It's a single service that lets you chat with friends in one-on-one conversations, participate in group chats, or make video calls.
Hangouts is a cross-platform service. It's available for Android, iOS, and the Google Chrome web browser. It's also built into Gmail.
The app borrows a lot of its look and feel from Google+ and it brings some of the video functionality first seen in Google+ Hangouts, including the ability to instantly start a group video chat.
If you use Hangouts on multiple devices, notifications will be synchronized across platforms. So if you dismiss a notification on your iPad, it'll be gone from your Android phone, for instance.
While some folks had been hoping Hangouts would also combine SMS and Google Voice into a single messaging app for Android, it's unlikely some of those features would have been possible in the iOS and web apps.
Google introduces Hangouts messaging service for Android, iOS, Chrome, and Gmail is a post from: Liliputing
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