Google Duo could become a messaging app
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Google Duo was born as a video-call application. The interesting thing about this app presented at Google I/O in 2016, together with Allo, is that you could only make calls through video, and in a very, very simple way. So simple, that its application is only based on a list of contacts. As well as in a preview of your front camera. The Allo app, for instant messaging, had to be a little more complete, with Assistant included. But little by little Duo has been evolving, and adding new features and options.Like, for example, the integration with the phone application. The latest news that we know goes one step further. And it could become a messaging application.
As we have been able to see in Phone Arena, some reports show that the application Duo could integrate the possibility of sending audio and video messages No need to make a live call. Apparently, they have been able to verify that the next version of the application will incorporate a button for video recording, as well as a notification system that will reveal who the message is from and whether it is an audio or video message. In addition, we can directly listen to the message from the application. Apparently, the video and audio recording will be deleted after a while. Something similar with the messages that we can self-destruct in its sister application, Allo. We don't know yet if audio or video messages can be saved, and if we can choose the self-destruct time.
Google Duo, more complete in the future
On the other hand, it looks like Duo will soon include new features for video control, such as a setting to calibrate brightness, contrast , etc. We don't know yet if this feature will be made official or not. It is a closed test, so it is not available in any beta, and it has not yet reached any user. With this, we get an idea of what Google wants to do with Duo; go from a video-call application to a more complete application. Will it one day integrate with Allo? Most likely.
