Google+ Hangouts on iPhone?

[Dominato3r]

They do not seem to work?

Me and a few of my friends who have androids and iPhones use the Google+ Messenger as a bbm-esque service. However the hangout feature (Video conferencing) does not work on the iPhones at all. They cant see the camera button on the top right in the chat interface or see the "join hangout" button in the Google+ stream. So naturally I thought the feature wasn't yet available on the iPhone but after a bit of searching I found it was (mid September update). Anyone else having this issue?

The phone are an iPhone 4s and iPhone 4

 

[iahk]

The Google+ Hangouts feature in Messenger just recently came to android. Not released for ios yet.

What you were talking about in september was the google+ hangout feature for you to join an existing hangout in the google+ service itself (from your stream), not in messenger.

 

[cheezy321]

People are still on Google+?

 

[Dominato3r]

People are still on Google+?

Well we don't really use the "Facebook" part of Google+. Just the messenger and it's video conferencing feature.

 

[Brian Stirling]

People are still on Google+?

In October there were 40M Google+ users -- they are signing up over 600K per day. The expectation is they will have over 400M by the end of next year.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...ay-have-400-million-users-by-end-of-2012.html


Brian

 

[lothar]

Well we don't really use the "Facebook" part of Google+. Just the messenger and it's video conferencing feature.

What exactly is the difference between Google+ Messenger and GTalk? Why not just use GTalk?
GTalk has those features.

 

[iahk]

gtalk for android? because officially only the nexus s and galaxy nexus has it (not sure about the galaxy nexus part). other than that, it's only in honeycomb.

sure you can root and try the hacked gtalk but it's not guaranteed to work with all phones and may be buggy.

and also, the other obvious reason if you keep in mind the op's post and it's the key part of this.. his friends use ios. gtalk won't help in this situation at all. google+ has the potential to overcome platform issues.. and who knows. google may eventually open this up to bbos and wp7.

 

[lothar]

gtalk for android? because officially only the nexus s and galaxy nexus has it (not sure about the galaxy nexus part). other than that, it's only in honeycomb.

sure you can root and try the hacked gtalk but it's not guaranteed to work with all phones and may be buggy.

and also, the other obvious reason if you keep in mind the op's post and it's the key part of this.. his friends use ios. gtalk won't help in this situation at all. google+ has the potential to overcome platform issues.. and who knows. google may eventually open this up to bbos and wp7.

You sure about that? GTalk came with my Samsung Galaxy S II stock.

About cross platform, there isn't a GTalk app for iOS? I tried doing a search but it looks like there's no "official" app from Google. It seems like there are 3rd party apps for that though because I saw many references when I did a search for "iOS GTalk".
If there isn't, there's still the option of using the web app as a backup?

I know there's an official GTalk app for Blackberry because that's how I talk to my best friend in Scotland.

 

[soccerballtux]

What exactly is the difference between Google+ Messenger and GTalk? Why not just use GTalk?
GTalk has those features.

Throw in texting on Google Voice.
And texting in the stock messaging app on Android.
Yeah. They have no idea what they're doing.

 

[vshah]

google desperately needs to consolidate it's various messaging apps.

also, i believe people were talking about the updated gtalk with video not being standard on many phones. Gtalk for chat has been on every google approved android phone.

 

[lothar]

google desperately needs to consolidate it's various messaging apps.

also, i believe people were talking about the updated gtalk with video not being standard on many phones. Gtalk for chat has been on every google approved android phone.

Gtalk with video requires Android 2.3.4, which of course depends on the phone manufacturers being up to date in the Android software.

Sent from my GT-I9100

 

[iahk]

yea, i was talking about video chat functionality within gtalk specifically.

official gtalk app is not available for ios nor wp7. webapp option won't help for the video call portion and i think wp7 can't even access google webapps correctly in its browser.

i think using google+ app in this case is the best option for this kind of problem. it's the easiest way for them to address the fragment issue among their own os and can bring the rest of the platforms together so users can have a single way to for group video calling.

 

[lothar]

yea, i was talking about video chat functionality within gtalk specifically.

official gtalk app is not available for ios nor wp7. webapp option won't help for the video call portion and i think wp7 can't even access google webapps correctly in its browser.

i think using google+ app in this case is the best option for this kind of problem. it's the easiest way for them to address the fragment issue among their own os and can bring the rest of the platforms together so users can have a single way to for group video calling.

If Google is able to make a "Google+ Messenger" app on the other platforms, then they should be able to make Gtalk on them as well.
Seems to me more like that they just created that Google+ Messenger app to compete with Facebook more than anything else.

 

[iahk]

If Google is able to make a "Google+ Messenger" app on the other platforms, then they should be able to make Gtalk on them as well.
Seems to me more like that they just created that Google+ Messenger app to compete with Facebook more than anything else.

Google+ Messenger (Huddle) was out before Facebook Messenger. RIM is actually the dev of google talk on bbos.

Google is pushing all of their development into google+ messenger. Gtalk for android is pretty low on their priority list it looks like. There's still some glaring bugs in it too. Have you tried group chat on it? It's pretty horrible.