Youth Apps - Mobile Apps Review
Google Allo
Allo is an IA messaging app that makes your conversations
easier and more expressive. It’s based on your phone number, so you can get in
touch with anyone in your phonebook and it deeply integrated with machine
learning to get you the smart features for your conversations flowing and help
you get things done.
Allo has Smart Reply built in (similar to Inbox), so you can
respond to messages without typing a single word but selecting the word which
is provided by Google. Smart Reply learns over time and will show suggestions
that are in your style. For example, it will learn whether you’re more of a
“haha” vs. “lol” kind of person. The more you use Allo the more “you” the
suggestions will become. Smart Reply also works with photos, providing
intelligent suggestions related to the content of the photo. If your friend
sends you a photo of tacos, for example, you may see Smart Reply suggestions
like “yummy” or “I love tacos.”
Allo also features the Google assistant, bringing the
richness of Google directly into your chats—helping you find information, get
things done, and have fun. You can chat one-on-one with the assistant, or call
on Google in a group chat with friends. Either way, you no longer have to jump
between apps to do things like book a dinner reservation with friends, get
up-to-date sports scores, settle a bet, or play a game. The assistant in Allo
lets you bring things like Search, Maps, YouTube and Translate to all your
conversations, so that you and your friends can use Google together.
The Google assistant in Allo understands your world, so you
can ask for things like your agenda for the day, details of your flight and
hotel, or photos from your last trip. And since it understands natural language
patterns, you can just chat like yourself and it’ll understand what you’re
saying. For example, "Is my flight delayed?" will return information
about your flight status.
Privacy and security are important in messaging, so
following in the footsteps of Chrome, we created Incognito mode in Allo. Chats
in Incognito mode will have end-to-end encryption and discreet notifications,
and we’ll continue to add new features to this mode.
Please don’t ask us what happens with Hangout, as we don’t know.
