[kwlug-disc] Cross Platform Messaging Clients

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

If you and your kids are on Android phones, and both have data plans,
then why not skip SMS altogether and use just Hangouts for messaging?
I have not seen it delay messages, except when you are offline (of
course).

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:19 PM, CrankyOldBugger
<crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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