Friday 11 October 2013

Google Hangouts update to add SMS, MMS

Google Hangouts will soon get SMS and MMS integration. According to a report, in Android Police, "Hangouts, which has so far only successfully unified Google+ Messenger and Google Talk, leaving Messaging and Voice to co-exist, is finally getting SMS and MMS integration."

As per the report, Google Hangouts would be receiving the update in the upcoming version 1.3. The report further states that Google Hangouts will also feature a video sharing option with the new update. However, there is no report of voice integration into the messaging app so far.

Messages sent via SMS will appear as "via SMS" next to the timestamp. Users will also be able to request delivery reports for SMSes sent as well as opt out of Hangouts through SMS.

Hangouts last update allowed users to see the people who are online, apart addition of few other features.

So far, there has been no confirmation from Google regarding the update.

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