[kwlug-disc] Cross Platform Messaging Clients
Charles M
chaslinux at gmail.com
Thu May 12 21:02:37 EDT 2016
Is she on Wind Cranky? We have the same problem with SMS messages on
Wind even though both Maria and I are on Wind.
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:18 AM, CrankyOldBugger
<crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone found a decent SMS messaging client for Android that also has
> cross-platform and cross-account capabilities? I've been using Google
> Hangouts but I'm finding that it's really unreliable (my daughter isn't
> getting my texts more than half the time).
>
> I'm seeing lots of messaging apps, but 99 times out of a hundred you join
> their network of users and you can't add people from your other lists (i.e.
> Skype, Google, etc). I don't want to maintain a bunch of networks on my
> phone. I want one app to rule them all!
>
> I did see one potential at https://ring.cx/en, but I don't think it handles
> SMS. It's open source, though, so there's hope.
>
> Whatsapp looks interesting as well, but again I don't see anything about
> SMS.
>
> Pushbullet (https://www.pushbullet.com/) also looks interesting but it
> doesn't handle Linux (and some of the reviews in the Play store were pretty
> bad).
>
> What are you folks using for SMS messaging? Have you integrated your other
> accounts into your SMS app?
>
>
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