[ajennings]

Agree.

Also, you could do the following things which Voice doesn't support:

- Have multiple chats open (and be working on several responses) at the same time

- Star chats (nice workflow for remembering to respond later)

Although there were a couple things which, annoyingly, never worked right:

- Receiving contacts (vcards) from iOS.

- Starting a new group text (more than one recipient) from within Gmail. You could respond to an existing group text but to start a new one, I had to do it from the hangouts app on my phone.