There are a number of ways to access text messages from a desktop, including solutions from Google and Microsoft. And you know Samsung: once many other companies do something, it just has to have its own solution. Now we get early signs of a Samsung Messaging app hanging in the Microsoft Store, which describes itself as a way to send and receive text messages from your phone in Windows.
Before you get too excited, the app still seems to be being tested a lot at the moment – it only appears in a few regions and you can not download it without a code anyway. Even if you would, the description says that its compatibility is limited to ‘devices that can use mobile data (5G and 4G LTE)’, and that it is only available for Windows hardware from Samsung: the Galaxy Book and Galaxy TabPro -series.
The description of the application indicates that it uses a partner app on the phone, which makes sense, and presumably only devices from Samsung will be invited. We hope that once the app is ready for wide release, the restrictions on Windows hardware from Samsung will be lifted, and that anyone with a recent Samsung phone and a Windows computer can investigate it.
Meanwhile, there are now plenty of ways to get the same functionality: Google’s Messages for web, Microsoft Your Phone, and desktop clients for all the popular chat services. In fact, it seems surprising that Samsung would build a custom solution for this – but this is Samsung for you.
