[kwlug-disc] Cross Platform Messaging Clients

[CrankyOldBugger]

No, I think the issue with with Hangouts.  They used to handle SMS well,
but no more.  Maybe I missed the memo somewhere?

So now I'm running Google Messenger, but I'm still on a sacred quest to
find the One Unified Handles Everything messaging app.  Keep me in your
prayers...


On Thu, 12 May 2016 at 21:04 Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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