Hangouts may soon no longer support SMS and MMS

Hangouts is an emblematic native applications for Android. This instant messaging service online has, since the contribution of SMS and MMS management in its departments experienced many technical troubles to the point that Google plans to remove this functionality.

It's no news but it could be that very soon, maybe in the next update, Google removes the support for SMS and MMS Hangouts. A decision that may irritate some.
Present within the Android platform for a long time, it was so simple IM. In 2013, it acquired the management of SMS / MMS. The first implementations of this support were not free of technical problems. In reality, the bugs were numerous, followed later MMS messages grouped with serious malfunctions. The messages could be sent late.
With the arrival of Lollipop, Hangouts slipped behind the Google Messenger messaging. Today, most of these problems have largely been resolved and make a good Hangouts messaging application just like Whatsapp. However, Google still decided to take away the support for SMS and MMS. For what reasons ? None was given for now.
One explanation would be that the Mountain View company wants to distinguish its Google Hangouts Messenger message service to avoid any confusion. Moreover, Hangouts developers could then focus on the heart of the application. Google and Google Voice Fi supposed subject to disappearance services will in turn supported by the application.
Whether he remains alternatives at this stage? Google will stream you logically to his Messenger via a redirection window that said, you will still have the right to third party applications. Check out our selection of the best alternatives messaging applications.