Originally Posted by Thine Wonk:
“Some people are using Skype, so am I meant to leave Skype on available? some people use What'sapp, then there's Viber and Snapchat and Facebook messenger all these other ones.
Then people wonder why they've got no battery half way through the day and say things like "why can't manufacturers make a phone that lasts for the day" mine lasts for 2 days with a bit of browsing, some checking news, weather, other apps, calls, texts etc. I'm quite sure that not having multiple messaging apps is something to do with that. Everyone has SMS and it's dirt cheap and part of the phone contract, so that's all I use.”
I don't think using multiple messaging apps has quite the impact on battery you imagine it does. I've played about with Windows Phone app development before and know the situtaion is similar on other smartphone platforms: the only service the phone is in constant contact with is Microsoft's/Apple's/Google's push notification service. Whether it's WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger or whatever, all notifications will come via the platform provider's notification service. Selecting the notification will then cause the app to open and display the message (or download the message or content if it's too large to be sent via the push notification service). The idea that all these apps are 'running in the background' and in constant contact with different servers is just wrong.
Originally Posted by Aye Up:
“The main thing I like about SMS is the delivery reports, when thats received you know for a fact the other person has seen it”
No, you only know that it's reached their phone.
Originally Posted by Aye Up:
“where as on WhatsApp et al its a bit grey, especially if they are not within range of a data connection.”
I think most people with WhatsApp will be in range of a data connection the vast majority of the time. And if you send a message which you consider to be urgent (personally, I'd just call someone if it was urgent, but each to their own) and you can see that it's not been delivered straight away, you could then SMS them as a backup.