Allo Launches Selfie Clips for Quick Personal GIF Sharing
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Allo Launches Selfie Clips for Quick Personal GIF Sharing

Introduced for Allo this week, Selfie Clips are a way to share personalized GIFs with whoever you’re chatting with on the service. 

As an example, if someone sends a sticker to you, you can one up them by emulating the sticker with your own face. Simply select the GIF option under the “+” menu, then get to recording your short clip. Once recorded, Allo will automatically loop the video and put it into GIF form. Then all you have to do is send it off.

This feature is rolling out to all Allo users starting today.

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Stumbling upon Droid Life randomly after purchasing a Motorola DROID in late 2009, then setting out to learn everything he could about Android, Tim quickly became an integral part of the site's comment section. After quite some time of strictly commenting on Droid Life, Tim was offered an opportunity to write feature stories for the site, such as custom ROM overviews, as well as interviews with Android community members. Following success of those, Tim became a full time writer and editor for Droid Life, now spending his time on news articles, device reviews, producing videos, and much more. Tim currently resides in Portland, OR with his longtime girlfriend and two wonderful dog children (Loki & Thor). In his spare time, Tim enjoys playing guitar, drinking coffee, practicing photography, and destroying kids on Call of Duty.

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  • Are you guys just making stuff up about Allo?
    I don’t have the neural network face thingie, and I certainly don’t have this feature. Allo soon my phone looks NOTHING like the image above.

    Also, what “+” menu?

  • I like the new web interface so I can use it with Chrome on my desktop! …Oh, wait. Still not available. Well, this thing is brand new. Should be here shortly, right?

  • Thank you so much Allo team. I was waiting this feature. It is really great user friendly and smooth

    • damn it! I’ve been holding off on this comment for just the right time……….

    • I don’t know, I (and all my friends and family) enjoy using it.

      It’s almost like Google knows different people want different features.

      • Then why hasn’t SMS been added yet? It seems like a whole lot of different people would like that feature. I run in a pretty tech-savvy crowd, and I don’t know one person who has stuck with Allo.

          • SMS can already receive animated gif’s so this would be awesome if SMS was included.

          • I rarely text outside of SMS unless it’s someone random that I don’t have their cell # and need to send them a message thru FB or something. Maybe it’s a unique circle of people that I communicate with, but literally everyone I would ever send a message to uses SMS as their main form of texting.

          • Except it isn’t. I want to message people regardless of what app the use. I’m not going to push Allo on others

        • Probably because anywhere that isn’t the US doesn’t use SMS. If they wanted to add it, they would have. Obviously Google has no interested in adding a dying (mostly dead) feature.

          • See the beauty of having SMS integration is that regardless of platform you can communicate with someone without the need of multiple messaging services. Hence the reason the Imessage is king of messaging.


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        • SMS is still a thing only in the US. Outside the US though, people have moved on to all kinds of online messengers.

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  • Sweet another allo article, they definitely had to have added sms this time!

    *Checks article, sees some more bs, leaves*

  • 1. Android enthusiasts propagate the use of new google services
    2. Android enthusiasts aren’t getting the features we’re requesting from Google.
    3. Android enthusiasts will not be helping Google propagate the use of Allo
    4. How long until Allo is dead because no one is using it….because google doesn’t listen?

    • Allo isn’t all that bad. It is loads better than any of their other messaging services. It just needs sms.

      • I believe that is the reason it takes so much flack. Everyone wants something comparable to imessages as standard on an android phone and this is half way there. It just needs sms fallback

          • No I don’t think Google have any intentions of adding SMS or RCS to Allo. Allo is suppose to be a multi platform messaging app that competes with WhatsApp or Messenger, not a OS-centric system like iMessage.

        • I wonder if it has something to do with assistant’s data getting in the hands of the isp. This is way above me, of course.

      • I agree with this exact sentence. Without SMS this thing is useless. I love it otherwise. But I wouldn’t dare have my friends/family switch over because it would be a mess.

        • The friends and family thing: We all put so much effort into getting people on hangouts, we don’t dare tell them to use another.

          • Or when it was properly integrated (threaded conversations between chat/text), you didn’t really need to get people on it. It just allowed me, the user, to synthesize my messaging. The other people could use chat, iMessage, or any other text app and it would all be in the same place for me. Asking people to add apps just so I can “text” them (which I already can do), is absurd.

        • Okay so if they added SMS you and friends/family will switch over? Then you would all be using Allo? Soooooo at that point you won’t be using SMS at all???? Sooo the added SMS for what exactly? So you and your friends and family can just use the messaging/Allo portion and not the SMS part?

          • If they added sms you wouldn’t have to get your friends and family to switch over.

          • But Google wants those users also, the app isn’t just got Google nerds. They want your friends and family to switch over, it’s part of the point of the app.

          • My friends and family aren’t just talking to me….obviously? That’s the problem. They’re talking to iPhone users, people who just use text messaging apps, people who use what’s app etc… They don’t just want to talk to me, so I can’t have them using an Application that locks them out of reaching other friends and family outiside of my own circle….

            This isn’t about me, it’s about making it easier for them to still communicate with whoever they want, without issue.

          • You know that why they made an iPhone version right? They want people that use WhatsApp etc etc to use Allo. The point is to get as many people using the service as possible. The features are built for messaging service, not SMS.

      • “It just needs SMS” – that’s a pretty big “just.”

        Nobody’s arguing that Allo is “bad.” But since pretty much no one is using it, it doesn’t really matter how good it is.

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