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dedub Member Level: 4G WiMax

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imessage having a huge effect.

 

once google rolls out its own android to android text messaging overlay, its game over.

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dedub Member Level: 4G WiMax

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Android already did.. Talk.

 

Sent from my little Note2

 

talk, and googlevoice, aren't seemlessly integrated into the default text messaging app.

 

Until google and OEMs integrate such support, usage will be minimal compared to what will happen once they do get integrated.

 

the way imessage works so seemlessly is one huge advantage over any current android solution.

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JeffDTD Member Level: 4G WiMax

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Not to mention Facebook. I'm the advisor of an undergraduate organization of a little over 50 men. Despite having my phone number, about a third of them communicate business or questions to me strictly through facebook messages. It pisses me off a little ...

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koiulpoi Member Level: 4G WiMax

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imessage having a huge effect.

 

once google rolls out its own android to android text messaging overlay, its game over.

Are they actually working on something like that? Google Talk is already built in to every Android phone, and Facebook now has this same functionality...
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WiWavelength Member Level: LTE Advanced

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talk, and googlevoice, aren't seemlessly integrated into the default text messaging app.

 

If you have your Sprint number integrated, Google Voice is pretty seamless. In settings, I can choose to receive SMS via the default SMS app or via the Google Voice app.

 

AJ

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If you have your Sprint number integrated, Google Voice is pretty seamless. In settings, I can choose to receive SMS via the default SMS app or via the Google Voice app.

 

AJ

 

I haven't checked in a year but last time all three of my lines numbers don't allow the Google voice conversion. Only one of them is a port in.

 

Sent from my little Note2

 

 

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WiWavelength Member Level: LTE Advanced

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I haven't checked in a year but last time all three of my lines numbers don't allow the Google voice conversion. Only one of them is a port in.

 

Maybe that is your SERO retribution.

 

;)

 

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If you have your Sprint number integrated, Google Voice is pretty seamless. In settings, I can choose to receive SMS via the default SMS app or via the Google Voice app.

 

AJ

Same here. That's what I do :D lol
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In settings, I can choose to receive SMS via the default SMS app or via the Google Voice app.

 

You don't even have to integrate it/sync with Sprint for this to work, I text (SMS) through GV via Handcent all the time. The only issue is, of course, with MMS.

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chris2420 Member Level: Analog

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Y'all also forgetting about apps like GroupMe I got the app and I went from over 2k texts a month to 150 this month.... all of my organizations in college use it for communications and so do my friends

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dedub Member Level: 4G WiMax

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There are lots of solutions for android over the top messaging. My point was that none of them are as dead simple and integrated into the OS, like imessage.

 

And until google and oems provide a universal integrated solution (ie oem/carrier agnostic), none of them will compare to the usage and usability that imessage gets.

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