Comments on: Google readying Android iMessage rival tip insiders

By: Andrew Hall

Andrew Hall — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:51:00 +0000

Erm yeah, it’s called Google Talk, been around for ages.

By: Nk24

Nk24 — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:50:00 +0000

The biggest thing GTalk needs to address is battery drain. If they can have it so that it’s not preventing your phone from sleeping they will create a monster

By: Graham Scholton

Graham Scholton — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:12:00 +0000

Google Talk already has most of these. It has group chat and video calling. File sharing is only supported on the pc version. All they really need to do is support file sharing in the mobile and browser version (that might be tricky) to provide a continuous experience wherever it is being used. Add recieved/read notifications, and location sharing. Then, if google wants to effectively kill the competition, make this functionality available to its IOS and Blackberry applications (If they can, the platforms might not provide this kind of access but a nice anticompetitive lawsuit can solve that) and open up the platform to non gmail email addresses like msn. This would be the ultimate player in the space. A client that works with any email, on any platform, consistently. This would benefit google huge too as it would give them user data (their bread and butter) on users that don’t use gmail. They can slowly begin to migrate users over to gmail after this by adding additional features for gmail users later.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:16:00 +0000

Correction: They added Voice + Video in 2.3.4

By: Simon Broenner

Simon Broenner — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:14:00 +0000

A Google Talk update would be welcomed. They already added voice in the latest Gingerbread version, but it’s still missing a lot of config options.

By: Simon Broenner

Simon Broenner — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:14:00 +0000

A Google Talk update would be welcomed. They already added voice in the latest Gingerbread version, but it’s still missing a lot of config options.