Re: Samsung no longer shipping with Samsung Messages in the USA

On 22.7.24 3:26 pm, Andrew wrote:

Bob Henson wrote on Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:08:42 +0100 :
 

If it's over your own wifi.  If it's over mobile data no doubt it eats
into your data allowance, small messages will hardly be noticeable, huge
attachments may be ... so depends on your contract, but no per-message
charge.
 

 I might well return to Google Messages then to save the extra app space. I understand messages it also handles spam now so it should do fine. Having been caught out by accidentally sent MMS charges before I was keen to avoid repetition. Thanks for the gen.

 In addition, when switching apps, just so that people are aware...
 In the past, on this newsgroup, I tested & listed every free SMS/MMS app.
In doing so, I had to switch from one default messaging app to another.
 Most people don't seem to realize they can change the default messaging app
at will, and they will NOT lose any messages by doing so.
 The only thing you might lose is if you add stuff to the messaging app.
For exmaple, PulseSMS allows you to give group names & group colors.
 When you switch from PulseSMS to something else as the default messaging
app, those group names and group colors may be lost since they're not kept
in the Android default messaging sqlite database.
 But the SMS/MMS messages and MMS media is maintained in that sqlite db.

Luckily, I always deal with messages at once and then delete them, so I had nothing really to lose anyway. Switching from SpamHound did lose the messages that I had manually marked as spam and that were in SpamHounds's spam trap directory - but that is no big deal, especially as they are probably known to Google's spam trapping anyway.
I did actually gain one thing - I found that I could link my phone and add Google Messages to my desktop and hence use my full size keyboard to send SMS messages. With my big hands and Carpal Tunnel syndrome, that was worth the change alone.
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