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Allo, Google's Intelligent Messaging App, is Set To Be Launched This Week

It will be interesting to see if Google's messaging app presents any real threat to Facebook's WhatsApp or fail to garner user love much like Google+.

"Google Allo can help you make plans, find information, and express yourself more easily in chat". It starts by offering up suggested replies and as you continue to use the app it will adjust to fit your style of responses and improve the suggestions presented to you.

As a bonus, Google has announced some SMS capabilities, in that they are allowing you message people over SMS who don't have Allo.

Allo has Smart Reply built in so you can respond to messages without typing a single word. If not, what messaging app do you use? Part of the reason Google pitches Allo as a smart messaging app is because it learns your conversational mannerisms over time.

Apart from answers, Google Assistant in Google Allo can also provide latest news, weather, traffic, sports, or upcoming flight status. Google will not be able to access these messages in any form. Add @google to your group conversation or chat one-on-one with your Assistant.

Google assistant throws a number of options towards you after a simple "What you can do?". Smart Reply suggests responses based on your conversation - just click the one you want, without having to type a thing.

Google's Allo chat app, first revealed at the tech giant's I/O conference back in May, is available to download now for both Android and iOS.

Using Allo you can send text messages, record a voice message.

Allo doesn't have an overall encryption cover, however, the app offers an "Incognito Mode".

Google hasn't made Allo available to Web, Desktop or Tablet users. To make this mode possible in a messaging app, Google introduced end-to-end encryption, discreet notification and message expiration into Allo. Users can set time limits for their messages, setting them to self-destruct after 10 seconds, 30 seconds, a minute, an hour, a day, or longer (via The Verge).

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Allo, Google's Intelligent Messaging App, is Set To Be Launched This Week