{"id":200224,"date":"2017-02-24T13:54:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T11:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=200224"},"modified":"2017-02-24T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T11:56:25","slug":"google-messenger-is-now-android-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/200224-google-messenger-is-now-android-messages.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Messenger is now Android Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has updated its\u00a0Messenger app, changing its name to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/topics\/rcs\/delivering-rcs-messaging-android-users-worldwide\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Android Messages<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its new features include the new name, bug fixes and stability improvements, and a simpler sign-up for enhanced features on supported carriers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Android Messages makes it easy to communicate with anyone by using SMS, MMS, and more,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>The app&#8217;s core features remain largely the same, offering users:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Text, image, audio, and video sharing with contacts or groups.<\/li>\n<li>On supported carriers, send messages over Wi-Fi or your data network.<\/li>\n<li>Block people you don\u2019t want to hear from, and archive messages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Android Messages is supported on devices running Android 4.1 and above.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/200142-cellebrite-can-now-unlock-most-iphones.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cellebrite can now unlock most iPhones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has updated its Messenger app, changing its name to Android Messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":200226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[41580,167],"class_list":["post-200224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android-messages","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200232,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200224\/revisions\/200232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}