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Thread ID: 135620 2013-11-24 05:27:00 Samsung Galaxy S2 converting long SMS to MMS? DakotaNZ (17161) Press F1
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1360760 2013-11-26 12:11:00 Actually in KitKat it is the *only* SMS client.

Google had "Google Talk" which they've had on Desktop for ages and began bundling it with Android a *long* time back. It's partly how their "Cloud to device messaging" system worked back in the day, similar to "push notifications", only on steroids. It's basically Jabber (XMPP). It evolved and became "Hangouts" which includes a few other nifty features that you don't get with standard XMPP / Jabber, and in their latest release they've also included SMS support so you can either SMS somebody or send them a Hangout message (Similar to iMessage, except you're not *forced* to iMessage somebody).

Hangouts are basically included with pretty much every single Android device that has the Play Store (So there's some 800,000+ at last count?), though if you've not updated your device it may be still labelled "Talk" until you update the app via the Play Store.
Chilling_Silence (9)
1360761 2013-11-26 17:47:00 It did update a few days ago but since I didn't use it I had no idea what it was gary67 (56)
1360762 2013-11-26 19:30:00 Shouldn't be? I call BS... My wife is on Telecom and has sent / received on her N4 just fine. Granted last tested on Jellybean-4.3, but still? :-/

Crashing how? I'm very curious coz I've never seen Hangouts crash. Official firmware from Google, or is it one of the ParanoidAndroid or similar builds?

Crashing by saying "Hangouts has stopped. OK" I had to remove the last hangouts updated to turn it off and go back to old default SMS app. Have a look at a GZ thread about the N4 and MMS on Telecom..
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