SMS in Hangouts gets out of Hangouts soon according to a letter to G Suite admins. But you may still cling on if you have Google Voice or Project Fi.
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Is it time to close the door on SMS messaging?
SMS messaging is a trusty standby for messaging capability, but is it too antiquated to keep up and running? Or do we need its reliability?
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Google lead on Allo and Duo discusses why SMS won’t get integrated
And by roadmap, there IS no public roadmap. Just reassurances that features will be coming along and that visions are in place for Hangouts.
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T-Mobile customers getting Google Messenger on RCS
Reports from all social media corners are showing signs of T-Mobile getting RCS implementation into devices with Google Messenger on them.
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WhatsApp extends support for BlackBerry, Nokia until July 2017
Encrypted messaging app WhatsApp first announced its big move on the last day of February. We now know that the move will not fully take place before the last of the year as originally promised.
The Facebook-owned company has updated its original post that announced the end of WhatsApp support on several older mobile software platforms.
But if you have a Nokia S40, a Symbian S60 or a BlackBerry OS (including BB10) device, fret a little less — WhatsApp announced it will continue support for your device through June 30, 2017.
Those of you who have smartphones running any version of Android earlier than 2.3 Gingerbread will still be locked out at the end of the year — and even then, good luck firing up the Google Play Store. Windows Phone 7 and iOS 6 users will also find the same to happen to you. The company is advising that you upgrade your phone.
With over a billion users, WhatsApp is turning the page on millions of them — beginning in just days.
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Pushbullet supports Allo messaging from PC
Allo ain’t no iMessage. We could say that over and over again and that wouldn’t change anything about it. But at least with Google’s chat app, you can now text from your PC, though with a third-party app.That app is ...
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A tale of iMessage on Android and of Apple opening source
Remember when iMessage might’ve been hot for Android this year? We did, too. And we didn’t forget about it. Apple might have decided against the idea of exporting what some might consider to be its most valuable user magnet because it would have driven customers away from valuable ...
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Hangouts out, Duo in for Google apps pre-load package
Is Hangouts dying a slow death as Google Voice is?The expectation and the hope is that Google probably would let bygones be bygones, but the messaging and texting app may not have a foot in the door in just a couple of months.In fact, on December 1, Google will actually remove Hangouts from the core Google ...
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Facebook Messenger Lite is just 10MB
Are you still bitter about Facebook Messenger being its own, bloated, starchy app? Feel like sacrificing your high-end phone and your first world living to at least get a Messenger app that’s less packed, less convenient and more minimalistic?Facebook Messenger Lite is just for you! In addition to the Marketplace that it introduced today, the company ...
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Google Allo Hands-On Preview: Because Google Assistant’s on preview
Our first taste of what the Google Assistant can do for us in our everyday lives is within the Google Allo messaging app that got released today. Now, you can get your undergarments scrunched up about all the chat apps that Google has floated out, but we’ll save the debate for another post.What got released today for both Android and iOS seems to be an attempt to become what
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Allo may let you search and go incognito inside your messages
With Duo out in the open, we’re still closing in on what might come through to Google’s new messaging service, Allo. There’s a lot of teasing going on during I/O 2016, providing us with an idea of what the features are. But we now have supposed grabs of how these features get into action via ...
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iMessage for Android may come at WWDC
If you’re an Android user in a orchard of Apple trees, you may be tired or indifferent to being “the green bubble” of the lot.There’s a developer effort firmly in progress called “Pie Message” that hopes to bring the iMessage client over to Android, but it could get overshadowed by a rumored reveal next week
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Google Duo and Allo: The death of Google Voice?
Google Voice was a terrific dream, which I’ve been using since before Google owned the actual service. You can have one phone number umbrella which sends and receives calls to any phone number associated with your account. It was one of the first mainstream solutions for texting over data, it transcribed voicemails, and it was compatible with traditional cell phones.Google Voice has stagnated over the last couple years. We’ve seen Google tinker with Hangouts, and introduce Project Fi, but we’ve seen little progress on the GV front. Today at I/O 2016, Google introduced a ...
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Allo is a new messaging service that takes advantage of Google Photos
Eric Kay, Director of Engineering, announced a new messaging app called Allo. It focuses on letting you express yourself in a messaging situation while making it secure and smart with the Google Assistant.You connect with your phone contacts and talk with your friends through texts, lots of custom-made stickers and a little something called “WhisperShout”. It’s a slider feature that can shrink or grow how your message will appear in the conversation — sorta like how you can hold the Like ...
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Google Spaces is an app for groupies to share stuff
If you’re not on Slack, HipChat, GroupMe, Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, SMS or email already and would like to bring some interesting pieces of media to a group you’re in, prepare yourself for what Google’s offering.It has introduced Spaces, an app that builds in Google Search, Chrome and
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