A Samsung phone comes with two apps that can send text messages: Samsung Messages and Google Messages. It's strange to see two very similarly named apps that do essentially the same thing.

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Their existing Samsung Messages app, after all, is perfectly capable of sending and receiving text messages, and it happens to already be pinned to the dock at the bottom of their home screen.