Google Eyeing Additional Carriers Besides Sprint For Google Voice Integration

by Ed Caggiani on Mar 27th 2012, 1:25am
tagged Google Voice, integration, mms, Sprint, visual voicemail

For almost a year, Sprint has had the monopoly on full Google Voice integration. That monopoly may be in jeopardy. In an interview with CNET, Vincent Paquet, Group Product Manager for Google Voice, said “We are having discussions with other carriers about this,” but declined to mention which carriers.

Google Voice is a service that provides users with online and on-device visual voicemail, cheaper international calls, personalized greetings, text transcription, and more. Sprint’s integration allows Sprint customers to either replace their Sprint number with their Google Voice number, or replace their Google Voice number with their Sprint number without incurring the usual $20 porting fee (see screenshot after the break). Either way, users get full access to all of Google Voice’s features.

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Google Voice Takes First Step Toward MMS Support

by Harold Williams on Oct 15th 2011, 8:42am
tagged Google, Google Voice, mms, Sprint, texting

The one thing holding me back from using my Google Voice account exclusively is the lack of MMS support. Sure, others with smartphones can just e-mail photos, but it never seems to work out that way. Yesterday, Google officially announced they have made a first step toward bringing this feature to its GV users. At the moment, only Sprint users are able to send MMS messages and to receive them you’ll have to turn on “enable text to e-mail forwarding” in your GV settings. Google is working on getting this to work with other carriers and getting the MMS messages to show up in the GV inbox, but this is a huge step forward. Most of us have been waiting for this since GV launched and may help to ditch using our main numbers all together. Stay tuned for more detailed information as it comes. Who’s excited?

[via googlevoiceblog]

Samsung launches ChatOn mobile messenger in the Android Market

by Stacy Bruce on Oct 14th 2011, 12:17pm
tagged Android Market, ChatON, mms, mobile messenger, sansung, sms

Samsung’s cross platform messaging app ChatOn was just launched Friday morning and is available now in the Android Market. It was back in August when we first told you about ChatOn and that it is similar to RIM’s Blackberry BBM, Apple’s iMessage, and Goggle talk. Made to replace your cellphone’s factory SMS/MMS service, ChatOn is currently available on Android, Bada and Samsung feature phones with the promise of extending support to iOS and Blackberry in the near future.

The service only works on mobile devices right now but Samsung plans to offer a Web-based service allowing for users to chat via their PC’s as well. ChatOn users can talk one-to-one or in groups, share photos, videos, voice messages and contact information. Feature phones are limited to sending text, images, calendar appointments and contact sharing. Smartphone owners get an upgraded version allowing to comment on each others profiles, send multimedia messages and monitor their own “Interaction Rank” based on how active they are on the ChatOn network.

This new Sammy app only works on Android 2.2 or 2.3. Follow the links below for your free download and be sure to let us know what you think!

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HTC EVO Shift 4G to receive MMS bug fix on August 8

by Robert Nazarian on Aug 4th 2011, 1:07pm
tagged bug, EVO Shift 4G, fix, HTC, mms, Software Update, update

The HTC EVO Shift 4G is slated to get a software update that will fix the MMS bug that results in sporadic failures in sending MMS messages. This will bring the software version to 2.76.651.5. It appears this is the only fix, but it is needed because I am sure Grandma is wondering why all those pictures stopped coming.

[via sprintfeed]

Myriad to develop MMS app for Softbank Android devices

by Jesse Bauer on Oct 8th 2010, 9:20pm
tagged Android, android 2.2, froyo, mms, mms service, myriad, softbank, softbank mobile

Softbank wants to put out an app on Android called “S!Mail” for their launch of “Softbank Mail”. Softbank has chosen Myriad Group to develop this MMS service, specifically for Android 2.2 OS.

This deal marks a shift for Myriad and their growth in the Android Market. You can read the official Press release below.

Verizon disappoints with first DROID 2 update by not fixing signal issues

by Dustin Karnes on Aug 24th 2010, 12:38pm
tagged Android, droid, droid2, issues, mms, moto, motorola, signal, sms, update, Verizon, vzw

Verizon, in true big-carrier fashion, has rolled out their first update to their Motorola DROID 2 phones via OTA. The major fixes (“major” being a bit of a stretch) include being able to scroll text and picture messages, but the huge disappointment here is that, according to reports, there haven’t been any resolutions to the signal issues that have been plaguing users since the initial launch.

How about our readers? Any of you DROID 2 owners with the update seen any improvements? Let us know in the comments!

[via engadget]