Google's New Messaging Service

Google has just recently made available the Chat messaging service for android phones. This is supposed to replace the standard SMS texting that android phones currently possess. So what's so different about it? Well, "Chat has features such as group texts, videos, typing indicators and read receipts, which are not available when sending SMS texts" (BBC). Apple phones can already do this, so congrats to Androids for finally catching up. One of the reasons why this Chat application is so much better than SMS is because SMS is meant for basic, 160 character long messages over a very basic network. The new Chat application will be integratable into the phone's existing messaging system.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43836504