Mystery app on Chrome OS isn't the unified messenger we wanted it to be

Yesterday a screenshot of the upcoming notification center for Chrome OS showed a new app icon which was suspected to be an upcoming unified messaging app. Google has been promising to unify their multiple messaging services like Voice, Talk, Messenger, Google+ and GMail. We hoped that the first signs of this unified messenger may indicate that we will see this service brought to Android and Chrome OS by Google I/O.

However it turns out that this isn't the unified messaging feature after all

This was confirmed by Francois Beaufort, the developer who first published the screenshot showing the new app icon. It turns out that he app in question is an internal application that the Chrome OS team built to test the new notification center. The app is called Notifications Galore and is even available for download right now.

You can find the instructions on how to install the notification app on your device and try it out for yourself.

Its about time Google released a unified messaging app for their platforms. Microsoft is offering a similar service on the Windows platform and Apple offers it with iMessage, so we hope that a unified messaging app from Google will arrive soon.


source - +François Beaufort