We have been hearing a lot about Google Babel in recent weeks, which means it will probably be unveiled at Google I/O. The Verge was able to get their hands on a working version of it, and according to them it will be called Hangouts and it will of course have the Holo design. One other interesting tidbit is that it will not have support for SMS/MMS messages, so technically this won’t be a unified messaging system. It might be for Google services, but not as a whole. The last thing that was mentioned was that the icon looks similar to messenger, but it will be green.
I’m sure Google will unveil lots of new stuff next week with Android 4.3, but it appears that Gmail will get the Holo design and location based reminders is coming to Google Now. These are much needed additions, and I am looking forward to what else Google has up their sleeve.
source: TheVerge
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