Hangouts covers SMS and IM, but has a bit of a learning curve. Aside from Google+, no other social networks are installed. You'll have to snag Facebook, Twitter, and others from the Google Play Store.

Samsung made a jumble out of the easy-to-use settings tools provided by Google in favor of an icon ... and the individual apps it attempts to replace (SMS, Hangouts, Yahoo IM, etc.) ...

Google employees liberally labeled their emails as “privileged and confidential” and spoke “off the record” over chat ...

The talking iPhone and Pixel are back, as Google congratulates Apple on (finally) joining the RCS messaging party.

We've uncovered development towards a new Google Messages "Sending as" indicator that could support multiple profiles or dual ...

Google Voice, a messaging service owned and operated by Google, has yet to adopt the messaging upgrade championed by the ...

A small change to Google Messages moves the “Rewrite” aspect of Magic Compose. The text field looks to get a little bit ...

If you're texting with someone on a carrier that does not support RCS, it will fall back to the old SMS/MMS standard. Android devices have had RCS for some time as Google and Samsung have ...

You can invite via SMS or by copying the URL ... You can continue recent conversations from classic Hangouts in Google Chat. Over time, older conversations from classic Hangouts will also migrate to ...

Popular WiFi calling providers like Skype and Google Hangouts are one option ... These include voicemail, SMS, and calls made to devices outside of Skype like landlines or cell phone numbers. Users ...

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