Advanced Messaging on Note 7 Question

[scorpiodsu]

I am reading this thread and laughing because I feel the exact same way. I just went back to Textra on principle. Funny how stupid that sounds. I guess I need to get over myself too, lol. Message+ seemed to get the job done well and it works great on my iPad. It's actually still working even though I disabled it on my phone.

Lol. That is funny. I mean one of the best things about Android is the choices available. And as much as some hate to say it, Verizon made a good app here.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

When I was on AT&T with Lollipop, I used the Verizon app. I could change that God awful orange.

I like the fact that you could customize the look a lot and the links and pictures were easy to find in one place.

 

[shaw1234]

I like it, but, it takes forever to load thumbnails of images when I go to send one. The stock messaging app is much faster than the Verizon app for this.

 

[Oj467]

I like it, but, it takes forever to load thumbnails of images when I go to send one. The stock messaging app is much faster than the Verizon app for this.

That's weird - its smoking fast for me. I ended up with it because Textra was giving me issues with sending pics.

 

[Dukins]

Thanks for the update. I thought it was stock Samsung messages.

 

[Issemann]

Google Voice has allowed me to send texts, make and receive calls and block callers since the day it came out. Unfortunately, Google can't get their act together and has mutilated Google Voice to the point where I am ready to just give up on it. The question now is "Do I continue to wait for Google to rectify the situation (e.g. Allo), or should I port my Voice number to something else?"

 

[French]

Google Voice has allowed me to send texts, make and receive calls and block callers since the day it came out. Unfortunately, Google can't get their act together and has mutilated Google Voice to the point where I am ready to just give up on it. The question now is "Do I continue to wait for Google to rectify the situation (e.g. Allo), or should I port my Voice number to something else?"

A very good question...and since you brought up Allo I feel compelled to include Duo...I love that they are cross platform and apparently dead easy, which Android DESPERATELY needs this type of option if we have any hope of pulling in our iFriends. But count me in with others out there that are saying we want/need a desktop client...AND availability on a non-phone number device (i.e. wifi only iPad). I am sorry I won't be able to say WHO in these forums, but someone has posted a scenario where his daughter has an iPad and loves to iMessage with her friends. She's still young enough that a phone is not in her cards...but her dad is perfectly fine with her messaging via her iPad on wifi. Well she can't do anything with Duo and I'm guessing the same will be true of Allo when it comes out.

I recently had a video job interview and my two choices for doing said interview were FaceTime and Skype. I've never used either if you can believe that, despite having an iPad for years (and a Mac)...and I ended up using FaceTime because it was easy compared to Skype (not that Skype is that hard...but FaceTime "just works").

I digress...AGAIN. Sorry...I just don't know why it has to be so hard to get a cross platform AND cross carrier advanced messaging app (and video app).

 

[Issemann]

I just don't know why it has to be so hard to get a cross platform AND cross carrier advanced messaging app (and video app).

I think the reason it's so hard is because you need to tie these apps to an account. And your account can be an email address, phone number or some other type of unique identifier. I thought Hangouts got it right after they accepted phone numbers (including Google Voice numbers) for for SMS messaging. Since Hangouts originally was tied to your Gmail account, the addition of a phone number and/or Google Voice number, allowed Hangouts to span across multiple account types.

Unfortunately, Hangouts went downhill in the past year or so when they removed merged conversations and when device manufacturers began customizing features without Hangouts in mind. :'(