Google Hangouts for Android updated with merged conversations, simplified contact list, and homescreen widget

Google today updated its Hangouts for Android app with a trio of new features. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play. While the changelog isn’t yet on the Play store, Google engineer Mike Dodd has shared it on Google+: Merged conversations: SMS and Hangout conversations with the same recipient are now combined into a single conversation. You can control whether you want to send a message via Hangouts or SMS with the flip of a switch, and different message types will be easy to tell apart in the conversation. Of course, you can always merge and...



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