New Google hangout replaces gTalk

Zascar

I'm glad Google have finally tried to catch up with Facebook messenger. I've used it a little and its good, but still not quite there yet I think. Not sure if its a known bug but the keyboard goes haywire for me on my HCT One X when trying to use it, I have to switch to pc.

Funny the way the emoticons try to copy WhatsApp but they are not as good.

What do you guys think?

jester77

Zascar wrote: »

What do you guys think?

Very much a rushed release. A big step backwards as it currently stands. I can't see my gtalk contacts list now, all I have is a mish mash of g+ contacts, a lot of whom I don't interact with over talk. I can no longer see if contacts are online, busy or offline which is a ridiculous omission. They should have waited until it was ready for release instead of releasing it in its current state.

Mimikyu

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Justin10

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I dont have a front facing camera on my phone and its installed and working fine. Seems there are problems with it at the minute for example on my Dads S3 its coming up as if its installed but when I click open it goes to Gtalk.

IMessage is the only feature I would like to have from the IOS platform. Seems to be such a simple idea, but yet no joy on Android.

Mimikyu

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Gonzovision

/ponies
/pitchforks
/shyydino

:pac:

Justin10

Ye im using Android, im sure they will remove that requirement as it doesn't make too much sense.

Add in Imessage like chat to Hangouts and I think it would be a clear winner.

Gran Hermano

Looks like it is now available for both the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10.
I've installed via the browser based play store and will have a play when at home later.

projectgtr

Gonzovision wrote: »

/ponies
/pitchforks
/shyydino

:pac:

they dont seem to work for me

Gatling

Trying to add contact's keep getting invalid email address messages :-(

Mimikyu

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A320

still think its poor,video calls not appearing to ring,just a 'missed call' notification about 20mins later

vicM

A320 wrote: »

still think its poor,video calls not appearing to ring,just a 'missed call' notification about 20mins later

Yea..this is happening to me as well..I'm using a tablet if that's any use.good thing is you can uninstall and it goes back to gtalk

A320

gtalk had the same problem,this was also tested in the same room on 2 different android phones on same wifi network,still didnt work

Riesen_Meal

A320 wrote: »

still think its poor,video calls not appearing to ring,just a 'missed call' notification about 20mins later

First day I had hassle but I assumed it was everyone trying to use it and was overloaded, its working fine on my end, even over crappy 3g...

Royale with Cheese

Am I being retarded or have they got rid of the list of online contacts? It's pretty much useless without this.

Mimikyu

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Royale with Cheese

Captain Morgan wrote: »

Iirc people where saying a contact is brighter if online and slightly greyed out if offline.

I think they want you to view it like Viber, Whatsapp, and SMS. That basically people are online all of the time and always contactable.

I feared that's what they were going for. I use Viber, Whatsapp and SMS to contact people when I actually need something from them. Have always used google talk (and previously MSN messenger many years ago) to just talk shít with whoever happened to be online. I dunno, I kind of see it as a less formal communication tool. You send messages to be people and if they don't reply no big deal. If i wanted someone to answer something important for me I'd never ask them over google chat.

Also looking at the app again, there definitely doesn't seem to be a way of seeing somebody's status. A lot of people are constantly signed in somewhere but may not actually be there. I'm currently in Australia so seeing a list of people that are online isn't anywhere near as useful as people who are actually available.