Which, frankly, is fine by me. I merged the text messaging function into Hangouts, and aside from some artificial barriers between IM and SMS, it works great (and is one less icon to juggle). I've never used Google Voice as a full-blown service, but it makes sense to combine things still further, if the internal navigation is reasonable.
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We’ve heard that Google Voice is getting dragged to the trash can and most of its functionality will be incorporated into G+ Hangouts apps on both Android and iOS. This has already happened to an extent with the ability to phone friends on Hangouts, but…
Google plans kill Google Voice ‘in months’, integrate features into Hangouts
We’ve heard that Google Voice is getting dragged to the trash can and most of its functionality will be incorporated into G+ Hangouts apps on both Android and iOS. This has already happened to an e…
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I tried merging SMS with hangouts, but Hangouts doesn't appear to be able to handle picture messages from SMS.
MMS message? Hmmm … thought I'd gotten some of those. I'll have to check.