[kwlug-disc] Cross Platform Messaging Clients

[Allan Zhang]

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Do you think your issue is the SMS client, or cellular reception?

If it's because of reception, you may want to try a messenger that uses data, like Signal, which can also be your SMS client. Personally, I just have a bunch of messaging apps to accommodate the preferences of others.

For just SMS, I've also used QKSMS, an open source SMS client made by Waterloo devs. However, I've found that non-stock Messenger apps have issues with MMS so I stick with stock.


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From: CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
Sent: May 12, 2016 11:18:41 AM EDT
To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
Subject: [kwlug-disc] Cross Platform Messaging Clients

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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