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What does iPhone gaining support for RCS messaging mean for you?
After years of avoiding it, Apple is finally adding support for RCS messaging on iPhone. But what does it mean for? Let's find out.
Verizon joins US carriers to support Google RCS Messages
Verizon is the latest major carrier to finally team up with Google to bring support for the new standard way of messaging with Google Messages.
Google’s Messages app gets reactions, sticker suggestions and media editor for RCS chat
The new features also include a mic icon to record and send audio messages, but all of them are only available for devices on which RCS chat is enabled.
T-Mobile enables cross-carrier RCS messaging worldwide
T-Mobile's initiative supports a good cause, but limited carrier adoption of the new messaging standard prevents it from being truly cross-carrier.
RCS messaging arrives on Windows 10 via Microsoft’s Your Phone app
RCS on Windows 10 can now be enabled via Microsoft's updated Your Phone app, but only when paired with Samsung Messages app running on the Galaxy S20.
Why you should probably avoid Google’s RCS Text messaging chat feature
RCS is being promised as the upgrade to text messaging that we've been waiting for, but... why can't we just use the internet for this?
Google starts rolling out RCS chat features for Messages in the U.S.
RCS stands for Rich Communication Services, and it basically takes your messaging experience to the next level. Enable your chat features!
Why are we still using phone numbers?
Often if you take a logic-based critical look at something that society has long taken for granted, you might see that it really doesn't make sense in modern society. It may have made sense many years, or decades, or centuries ago, but it clearly…
Biggest US carriers have united, not to give us RCS messaging, but a new messaging app
We thought we could get RCS thanks to the biggest carriers in the US in 2020, but it seems we will have to settle for a new messaging app
Google Fi international LTE coverage expands, RCS to roll out
If you're taking your Google Fi phone to any of these 33 countries, you'll be able to get on LTE for the same rates as you do at home!
Google kills Allo sooner than it will kill(?) Hangouts
Shortly after rumors piled on about recent internal shakeups with Google's messaging clients, Google came to confirm the news: Allo is dead.
T-Mobile Galaxy S9 owners suffer privacy-violating Samsung Messages update
The update allows Samsung Messages to support T-Mobile's new RCS protocol, but it also apparently sent an entire photo gallery unprompted.
Android Messages for web is rolling out, bringing RCS everywhere
Who cares if your computer is a Mac or Windows or even Linux? If you have a web browser, you can access your Android phone's messages now.
The 1975 are playing… games with Android SMS logs and Google search
If you're searching up details about the rock band from Manchester or a Portuguese travel agency, you may end up finding out more about your recent texts instead.
Google leaves Allo for dead, shifting its focus on Android Messages and universal ‘Chat’ technology
Technically, Allo is not dead... just yet. But you may want to switch to Android Messages already, and get ready to forget all about archaic SMS technology.
Huawei integrating Android Messages app for SMS/RCS
The app will allow Huawei phones in the near future to access RCS. Huawei is also helping Google out by providing servers to carriers for their clouds.
Meet Neil Papworth, the happenstance pioneer of SMS
25 years later, texting has evolved way beyond its original status as a cellular pager. And it all started with a Christmas party at Vodafone offices.