As Droid Life previously reported, Google already tests Babel, an unified messaging service that combines Google Talk, Gmail Chat, Google+ Messenger. There’s a Gmail page that mentions “dogfooding Babel in Gmail” and it’s supposed to be available only to Google employees.
“Upgrade Chat to Babel! Babel is Google’s new messenger with clients for Android, iOS, Chrome, Google+ and Gmail. Access the same conversation list from anywhere!” That’s how Google describes the new service.
“Some of the new features:
* A new, conversation-based UI
* Advanced group conversations
* Send pictures
* Improved notifications across devices.”
It looks like you can go back to the Gmail Chat interface: “You’re about to revert the Babel chat client to the old Gmail chat client. You can always opt in back from the chat roster menu.”
Here’s a screenshot (it’s this image):
{ Thanks, Florian. }