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Google released Hangouts way back in and the service soon became a favorite among Android users. The app featured SMS integration, which was one of its more popular features as it allowed users to have all their messages in one app. Sadly though, despite its popularity, the service was sidelined in favor of Allo and was split into two products for G Suite users : Meet and Chat.
Funnily enough, Allo also met an untimely demise in and was replaced by Android Messages. Despite being shelved by Google, Hangouts still enjoyed the favor of many users until reports revealed that the service would finally be shut down in However, due to the fact that Hangouts is so deeply integrated into the ecosystem and has a user base dating back 15 years, killing the service seems to be a complicated process for Google.
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Enter your email to be subscribed to our newsletter. A Literature and Linguistics graduate with a keen interest in everything Android. When not writing about tech, Pranob spends most of his time either playing League of Legends or lurking on Reddit. That still puts them at just over 90 days from Android 10's launch date, which is by no means exemplary but also isn't awful, all considered. As has been the case in the past, OnePlus didn't do much in the way of communication with customers — no official estimates, no promises, no meaningful updates or ETAs along the way.
The company's communication is mostly limited to announcements in its forums when a rollout is beginning. It's more than some companies offer but still not enough; if you own a OnePlus device, all you really can do is wait blindly and hope the upgrade might show up on your phone sometime soon. Still, it's a commendable all-around performance, and it's heartening to see OnePlus continuing to steadily improve with each passing year.
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It'd sure be nice to see a couple more A-level scores in the mix, but a solid B-range performance isn't bad at all. Unfortunately, things get way, way worse from here. Samsung's gotten some serious props for improving its upgrade performance with this year's Android 10 rollout — and it absolutely should! The company did better this go-round than it has in ages, with the first U. Since Samsung treats its Galaxy S and Galaxy Note phones as co-flagships, I look at the delivery time to both devices and then average it to achieve a single score. Still, we can't grade Samsung only relative to its own past letdowns.
After all, when the bar's been set embarrassingly low for so long, "not entirely horrible" suddenly seems grand. But in and of itself, sending out an Android upgrade over a hundred days after its release is nothing to celebrate. And even in the Samsung-specific big picture, all this performance actually does is return the company to the level of adequacy it achieved five years ago, with 's Android 5.
The same can be said for Samsung's previous-gen flagship performance — which, again, is a massive improvement over last year's embarrassing showing but still is ultimately just sending software to a top-dollar, one-year-old phone five months late.
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And, again, it still basically just puts Samsung back where it was with its then-underwhelming level of Android upgrade performance. Adding insult to injury, Samsung never makes any effort to communicate with customers about the process or what can be expected along the way. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Samsung can — and should — do better.
Particularly for a company of its size and with its immense financial and engineering-related resources, not being able to deliver updates to people after all those months now with the benefits of Google's Project Treble improvements in place, no less comes down to one thing and one thing only: priorities. Here are the latest Insider stories.
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In a blog post , Google has detailed that its Gsuite customers will be the first to see the app go in October while the regular customers will have until sometime in In any case, those of you who are fond of Hangouts need not worry. Google has said that it will be migrating most of the important features from the Hangouts app into Hangouts Chat , which is an app that has many Slack-like enterprise features. Hangouts Meet is more of a video-conferencing app, much like Skype.
As of right now to avoid any confusion, Google has renamed Hangouts to Hangouts Classic. In due time, Hangouts Classic and Google Allo will be removed from the roster but it would still leave five messaging apps under Google. Find latest and upcoming tech gadgets online on Tech2 Gadgets.