The exceptions are Google Voice users and Project Fi customers who can continue to route SMS/MMS through Hangouts. Others will have to move elsewhere.
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All of us are born with certain “natural rights” – rights which are are not dependent on the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and are therefore universal and inalienable. Among those are the right to privacy, of which I’m an advocate. Since the world’s governments aren’t doing a very good job respecting privacy (let alone protecting it like they should be), the responsibility falls to us, individually. Thankfully, ...
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Just where does Google want Android users sending and receiving their text messages? Back in 2013 Google merged its IP-based messaging and SMS as it brought the latter to Hangouts with the launch of KitKat. For a while it looked like that might be the end of it, and Hangouts might be Google’s one-stop-shop for users’ messaging needs. But then last year we got a hint that change might be on the way, as
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Say you consider yourself a pretty savvy, security-conscious mobile user: you don’t hop on every untrusted WiFi AP you see, you don’t tap on suspicious links, and you don’t open attachments from unknown sources. All good advice, granted, but even if you’re doing everything in your power to avoid giving someone the opportunity to compromise your phone and your data, sometimes vulnerabilities still manage to slip through the cracks. This week Android users are learning of a critical one ...
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Just over a month ago we saw Google deliver one of the more eagerly awaited improvements to the service, doing a massive overhaul to how Voice handled MMS and brought such picture-messaging support to the vast majority of carriers in the US and Canada. Any way you looked at it, it was good news, but even this big step didn’t bring us all the way to where some users might hope we’d be, with a few notable carrier holdouts and a link-based MMS workaround that was a little less than ideal. Today, Google ...
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There is no shortage of options when it comes to communicating with a modern smartphone. There are literally hundreds – likely even thousands – of different ways to communicate. There’s the voice call, which is no longer a staple in mobile communication for many. And there is an endless supply of different IP messengers available, free of charge, depending on what mobile OS you use. There’s email, for the more traditional feel of correspondence. And there are several popular ...
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