Google Voice is one of those Google apps that seems to be ignored by Google, and I often wondered if it might suffer the same fate as Google Reader. With the news that Google is readying a new unified messaging service called Google Babel, I became hopeful that Google Voice would be included and might not be doomed after all. Well it appears that Google Voice will indeed be included in Google Babel, but not right away. At launch, Babel will only include Talk, Hangouts, and Messenger.
We can also expect to see notification syncing, which means once you have read a message on one of your devices, the notification will disappear from your other devices. This is huge as I always have GTalk notifications on several devices for messages that I already read. The introduction of sending pictures would also be nice since I can’t think of how many times I wish that ability was there. Unsurprisingly, Babel will launch on iOS as well, but Google is saying this is the first time they are building a first class iOS experience. Lets hope we see Babel at I/O.
source: Droid-Life
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