ISSUE 73 • ANDROID ADVISOR 71Messages displays
both SMS and MMS
messages, though
without the additional
calling options offered
by native phone apps
the tab. Frustratingly, you can’t directly edit them using
Photos unless you save them to your hard drive, then
edit them with Photos.Messages
In this context, ‘Messages’ is merely shorthand for
SMS/MMS text messages, not any specific app on
Android or anywhere else. As a result, it’s a bare-bones
summary of the text messages you and your contacts
have exchanged, nothing more. Most messaging
apps, including Skype, offer a ‘call’ option, and usually
a video-chat option as well. Messages does neither,
although you could argue again that the bare-bones
approach is necessary to maintain flow.