Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020

Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by JoshTriplett on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:08PM (#18573586)

You can do SMS via Android Messages and use messages.android.com on a computer. However, unlike Hangouts, it just connects to your phone to send and receive messages.

Google Fi will be unchanged; I've been using Messages from the beginning. Voice, however, has a much better experience with Hangouts than with the standalone Voice app, and in particular the standalone Voice app doesn't let you make VoIP calls as far as I can tell.

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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by mike00632 on Saturday December 01, 2018 @03:13AM (#18575856)

What do you mean by, "However, unlike Hangouts, it just connects to your phone to send and receive messages,"? My Google Voice number is my primary number but not my cell-service number. Would messages.android.com send/receive SMS as my Google Voice number or my cellular carrier number?

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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by JoshTriplett on Saturday December 01, 2018 @03:34AM (#18575916)

Whichever number you have working through the Android Messages app on your phone. messages.android.com just connects (via Google) to the app on your phone, displays your messages from that, and lets you compose and send messages via that.

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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by int_19h on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:40PM (#18574153)

It needs to be something that can work as a background app with notifications etc.

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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by JoshTriplett on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:46PM (#18574187)

Messages on the web does support notifications, though you do have to keep it open. (But then, the same applies to Hangouts unless you use the Chrome app.)

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