13 Facts About Google Talk

Google Talk was an instant messaging service that provided both text and voice communication.

Google Talk was the name of the client applications previously offered by Google to use the service.

Google Talk applications were available for Microsoft Windows, Android, BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10 and Chrome OS operating systems.

Google Talk was integrated into Gmail where users could send instant messages to other Gmail users.

Google Talk Gadget was a web-based module that could be embedded in iGoogle and other web pages, allowing text chat with users of Google Talk.

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Google provided a Voice and Video Chat browser plugin for Google Talk that supported voice and video chat between Gmail users.

Google Talk support was integrated into Google Android devices, but did not support voice and video calls below Android version 2.

However, given that Google Talk provided XMPP protocol, most mobile phones for which a suitable XMPP client existed could offer Google Talk service, at least theoretically .

Google Talk did not provide the user with a menu for text formatting.

Nevertheless, Google Talk did support some text formatting features like making text bold and italic.

In 2006, Google Talk reported that they were working on adding new features such as supporting SIP in a future release, which would broaden the userbase for the program.

Mr Singhal stated that as long as Google Talk was available, 3rd party clients could be expected to continue to work.

Users could still continue to use third-party XMPP clients to connect to the legacy Google talk server, but only for 1-on-1 chat with Hangouts users.