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This has SMS fallback!

https://support.google.com/allo/answer/6376011

Yeah, wonder how it looks like, if it's coming from the persons number, or some service.

[edit] Not from personal number it seems : http://www.reddit.com/r/projectfi/comments/53rhk8/_/

Does it work with MMS, like Hangouts usually doesn't?

Nope. It's more or less glorified invite message over a service, that also receives replies from SMS. But since it doesn't show as sent from your mobile number, the receiver will have a separate thread in their SMS application.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/09/20/allo-weird-sms-expla...

...so if I used Google Allo, I would still need to also use Google Messenger for MMS conversations and Facebook Messenger for conversations with less-nerdy people.

The only thing Allo seems to have going for it is that it's not another blue speech bubble icon labeled "Messenger".

Basically, yeah. If we overlook everything, all that Allo offers is the Google Assistant and that's probably what they wanted - fresh set of data.

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