{"id":129657,"date":"2016-02-06T13:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T20:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/06\/more-on-google-hangout-changes.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:29:43","slug":"more-on-google-hangout-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/06\/more-on-google-hangout-changes.html","title":{"rendered":"More on Google Hangout changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I'm still unhappy about the move to shift SMS out of Hangouts, but concerns over Hangouts being eliminated appear to be exaggerated, as Google is rolling out improvements to audio\/video connections via peer-to-peer connections. That change is supposedly why SMS is being phased out.<\/p>\n

Though I still think that's a bad idea. While it would be great if everyone could IM via Hangouts, things aren't nearly that universal … except<\/i> for SMS. It may be old, creaky, and primitive, but carrier-based SMS is the most widespread messaging mechanism in the world, and breaking it out into a separate application without some compelling reason seems like an inconvenience to me, at least in my personal user story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nImproved call quality coming to Hangouts for Android via peer-to-peer connection<\/a><\/span>
\nImproved Hangouts is one of the most common requests from Android users. According to a rumor late last year, Google is working on making it a better chat client by removing SMS capabilities. It no…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So I'm still unhappy about the move to shift SMS out of Hangouts, but concerns over Hangouts being eliminated appear to be exaggerated, as Google is rolling out improvements to audio\/video connections via peer-to-peer connections. That change is supposedly why SMS is being phased out. Though I still think that's a bad idea. 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