The company announced that SMS text messages can now be sent and received ... but Facebook is banking on Messenger's bevy of other functions to attract people. Things like making voice calls ...

One user told Android Police that they saw a new SMS settings pane, and was even able to use Messenger to send a regular text message. Seemingly, a purple theme/speech bubbles are used to ...

Users should then activate the "default SMS app" option to ... audio and images into their text messages, along with emojis, stickers and location sharing. For other functions including sending ...

Google released a scheduling function for ... of all your text messages in Gmail. Google Voice will also keep a copy. Google Voice settings to set up Schedule Send for Text SMS Screenshot by ...