With the advent of smartphones, the demand for chat services has grown and today we can see numerous chat services through which users can get in touch with their friends and loved ones at any hour of the day, without spending too much money. Therefore, the competition among chat services has also increased now and in order to outshine others each of them is trying to offer something new or more than their rivals so they could grab a larger share of the market. Google is one of the tech giants that also has an eye on this space because of which today it is running several chatting services. However, it seems that the Mountain View-based company still believes there is room for more, as Droid-Life has come up with a new report, which notes that Google is set to introduce a unified chat service by the name of “Babel.”
According to the report the brand new platform is likely to fuse all the chatting services of Google together such as Google Talk, Google+ Messenger and Google Voice. In addition, Google will make the cross-platform service available to iOS, Android, Gmail, G+ and Chrome. Droid-Life’s report also claimed that the unified chat service was initially named “Babble”, but later Google decided to change its name to “Babel”.
Rumour has it that the new Babel service from Google will bring a flawless messenger experience across a variety of platforms, including Android and iOS and its main features will also boast advanced group conversations, improved notifications on different devices and it will also enable the users the ability to access the same conversation index from everywhere. It is not clear why Google determined to name the chat service “Babel”, but sources states that the name has different meanings to it “that all make sense in some round-about way”.
“The semi-hilarious thing about the name, is the fact that the definition of the word by itself has to do with a confused mixture of sounds, voices, or languages. But if you think about the movie Babel, with Brad Pitt, the name tends to make more sense. The movie itself focuses on four interrelated situations and conversations that all eventually come together in the end through a single phone call that is played from two different perspectives from the beginning and then the final scene. When you think of a unified messenger client, this idea of merging conversations from different perspectives or places seems to make a lot of sense”.
Source: iPhoneinCanada
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