How the heck does Andriod still not support this feature?

[rui-no-onna]

cone thing?? only one thing with US carriers that bother you?
i wish that was all that bothered me! :bawling::hmmmm2:

That's the one thing I that I find to be a minor annoyance. The other things that bother me are classed much higher than simply annoying.

 

[MSUgEEk]

I find it very annoying when iPhone users try to group text with me. Not that my phone won't do it, just that they tried to group chat. I find it annoying. But to address the question, you are right. Android will not support the same group text as iPhones.

 

[someone3974]

Basically it allows you to chat in one text window with like 10 of your friends. Without group texting, when someone replies to your mass text, they come back as single text and will only send it to you specifically so everyone else on the list can not see their text. So think about it like this. Group text allows you to setup a chatroom with a bunch of your friends. Everyone can see anyone's reply all on one window.

Also, with a lot of iPhone users, they will include you in a group text but when you reply, it only goes to the person that sent the text first and not to everyone else on this list.

Now imagine if you were included in a group text with 10 people. When you reply, in order for everyone to know what your response is, you have to message individually everyone on that list. With group text, you reply once in that window and everyone gets it. It

 

[kezug]

I am from Blackberry and used group text a lot with 2 other BB users. Group Texting is fully supported and is very simple on a BB. However, now I have ICS running on my Galaxy SII Skyrocket and the out of the box text app does not support group text. For example when I send a group text to my 2 buds, when 1 replies, it only goes to me. This is very frustrating!

This should be a basic feature! Why isnt this supported out of the box on Android?

So, per this thread, I downloaded Handcent SMS...which I think is clunky, bulky and just still does not work. When I send the group text...I see 2 bubbles showing the message going out to my 2 buds. They get the message, but there is no reply all and when 1 person replies, the other bud is left out....thus I only see their replies!

WTF!

 

[Stigy]

I am from Blackberry and used group text a lot with 2 other BB users. Group Texting was fully supported and was very simple from BB. However, now I have ICS running on my Galaxy SII Skyrocket and out of box text app does not support group text in a sense where I send a group text to my 2 buds, when 1 replies, it only goes to me.

This is a basic feature! Why isnt this supported out of the box on Android.

So, i downloaded Handcent...which I think is clunky bulky and just still does not work. When I send the group text...I see 2 bubbles. One to each of my buds. They get the message, but there is no reply all so I only see their replies!

WTF!

Group texting is just not supported on Android out of the box. I don't remember my Blackberry doing that, but then again I haven't had one in 4 years so maybe things have changed.

Why not grab an app like GroupMe or something similar to group chat with them?