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Re:Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users by drivebyacct2 on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @01:10PM (#4132902)
How is this different (besides visually) from porting my number to Google Voice? It seems to have the exact same set of functionality.

Also, koush's DeskSMS has been around much, much longer and is the exact same as this.

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Re:Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users by cryptoz on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @01:17PM (#4132944)
I'm not sure if this helps, but I think Google Voice is still unavailable to 95% of the world (i.e., it's Americans-only) so that may be a large difference (if these guys support non-Americans, anyway).
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Re:Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users by drivebyacct2 on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:04PM (#4133224)
Ah, I always forget my American privilege. You're right of course.
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Re:Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users by blaqsmith on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:59PM (#4133527)
One difference (relevant to me, at least) is that Google Voice does not yet support MMS messages.
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Re:Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users by eclipxe on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @03:25PM (#4133637)
On Sprint it does
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Re:Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users by AncientPC on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @04:17AM (#4136060)
It's a bit of a hack, you only see photos if you enable text to email and read it as such.
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Re:Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users by knurdle on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:14PM (#4133281)
I believe mightytext has actually been around longer than koush's DeskSMS.
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Re:Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users by drivebyacct2 on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:37PM (#4133417)
Whoops, I tend to assume a feature on TC indicates a recentish launch.
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