ive googled to my hearts content about this but cant find what im after.
does one know of an android app that does the same thing as iMessage, in that I can send an sms and an instant message to the same contact in the same conversation. ie iMessage has green for sms and blue for im in the same window, is there anything along the lines of that for android?
thanks in advance
Someone should create an english version for iMessage Chat for android that will be the sweetest thing ever
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Looking to see if anyone knows of a way to link the ipod imessage app to android? looking for a way to be able to send my kids messages from my vibrant via text to their imessage apps on their ipods. Don't really want to set up and use something like a whatsapp, would rather let them use the native imessage if possible. Let me know if you know of anything. Thanks.
Alright, this is driving my nuts.
Is there a way to be included in the text group with my friends on iPhones/iMessage? Instead of only being able to receive and send individual texts, can I be included in the group text chat so I only see one message string and only need to send one message to go to everyone? I know there are other messaging apps that have this capability, but will they communicate with iMessage, because my iPhone friends aren't likely to switch from default text app?
I had just accepted that it was an iMessage only thing and not compatible, but my friend on a Droid Bionic is able to group chat.
Thanks
And I just realized I should have started this thread in the Themes & Apps section. Sorry
As far as I know iMessage is like blackberry messenger for iOS. Group messaging is turned on by default on iOS (as far as I know) so thats the feature you need to look for. When I had my windows phone, it supported group messaging out of the box but was turned off by default.
I have never found an option in any default text app (never tried any from market) but I would think that android could support it.
Hi,
I am hoping someone can help me as I have searched quite a bit and not ever had my question answered.
I grabbed a Lumia 800 to test WP7.5 (& 7.8 when it is released) as I have an eye on the Lumia 920 and want to test the waters before committing. I understand that 7.8 is not going to be the same as 8 but I can only assume it is going to be better so if I like the 7.8 OS I should in theory like WP8.
I currently am using an iPhone 5 as my main phone but I also have a GS3 too that I use from time to time. My issue is that when I swap sims from the 5 to the Lumia 800 I cannot get group messaging to work and I think it is due to iMessage on the iPhone 5. Even though I turn off iMessage before swapping sim cards it will not allow me to do a group message. iPhone users who text me have it show up as an iMessage at first before it going as a normal text.
Group texting is one feature I extensively use on IOS and would not want to forgo it so I was hoping someone had gone through the same issues but had it work for them.
I have turned on group messaging in the settings on the Lumia but that makes no difference as all responses do not go to the thread but individually.
One last question as well, if I can get it to work are all recipients able to reply to all like the iPhone version of group messaging or will they only see the message from me?
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
iMessage is one of the may ways which Apple uses to lock users in. It is not a normal or 'standard' group text function but a propriety system. So you can't communicate using iMessage with other devices but iPhone, in those case you will see normal SMS messages.
Group text will require MMS to be set up and available. Also you must enable the group text option in settings for the messaging hub. When enabled you will send one MMS to all recipients and responses and responses will remain in a single conversation. For the recipients to have a reply to all option they too will have to have MMS enabled.
I know understand the issue is not on the WP7 end it is down to the way that iMessage interprets text messages as almost like emails.
I have found a program that will allow you to use Group Messaging on Android, IOS & WP7 so will tell people I know to grab it to be able to do group messaging when required.
Let me first state that I am a Android fan boy. I have no desire to get an iPhone, however a bunch of my friends have iPhones and are all in group messages with eachother. They would add me to the group, but if that were to happen, it would get rid of all of the iPhone messaging features such as sending through internet instead of sms.
So, my question is this: Is there an app (or any possible way) which will allow me to enter these groups using the iPhone messaging system?
Thanks!
I have been using an old GO SMS version up to now, being very careful not to update it since they have removed the one feature I kept it for, the inbox. I sincerely hate the threaded stuff, I have hated it since it first came in Windows Mobile, and then on the HD2 and up. Pansi was great, but didn't work anymore because updating stopped. I have no interest at all browsing a box where I see the messages I have sendt, I want it to be like a mail program, not a social media thing (I don't even have Facebook or other social media...). So is there a non-threaded/unthreaded/inbox style SMS app out there? I have spent an hour on Play to find it, but failed.
I've used about every SMS app that's out there and I don't recall this being an option. Lemme just clarify though as it seems like an odd request to me (no offense - not odd bad, just odd different). You want an SMS app that only shows their messages to you, but not yours to them? If that's so, the only half assed work around I could think of would be one that has the ability to theme all components of the message and make the out going messages blend in to the background.
So you haven't been around very long, then? That was the only way until around 2008 for smartphones, when Windows Mobile 6 came with threaded messages. Until now there's always been apps that supports it. Basically I want an SMS app that doesn't use threaded messaging, so I can go into an inbox and see the messages I have received, not the one I have sendt, yes. But blending in doesn't help, the main thing isn't the separate "conversations", it's the separate inbox where I only see the text of messages I have received, nothing else. So just like the inbox of MS Office Outlook, if that helps. Or like K9 mail for Android, if that tells you more. I just don't see why what's widely considered the efficient way to do things in mail is so different in SMS. Almost all mail programs has one inbox and one sendt box.