While Apple has publicly only said that it will add RCS messaging support to iOS later in 2024, a Google announcement appears to pin it down further. Google has launched a new page about RCS messaging ...

Google has stumbled in the dark for years trying to replicate the success of the iPhone's iMessage chat app. But each attempt turned into a failure until Google embraced RCS a few years ago. Google ...

Google Messages now lets you send yourself RCS messages This allows for longer notes-to-self and high-quality photo and video uploads RCS messages sent to your own phone number are not encrypted The ...

With RCS rolling out on the iPhone yesterday, Google is looking ahead on new features including cross-platform end-to-end encryption (E2EE) between Android and iPhone. The governing GSMA body says the ...

Apple has promised to adopt RCS in 2024, and Google welcomes the company's contribution despite not adopting its encrypted extension for the standard. The Rich Communications Services messaging ...

Google’s back at it again. After launching and shutting down nearly half a dozen instant messaging apps, the company is taking yet another crack at filling the iMessage-sized hole in the Android ...

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After years of false starts, empty promises, and a whole lot of frustration, Google has announced that it will be upgrading the stale SMS experience to RCS-powered chat. This change will bring an ...

A massive milestone was reached by Google Messages and its RCS feature, with the company claiming that it already sees 1 billion users globally using the service and its technology. In celebration of ...

Since last year’s “Get the Message” advertising campaign online and in New York City, awareness of Rich Communication Services (RCS) is growing more mainstream. Google is now making RCS even more ...

In a mobile world full of capable messaging apps such as Allo, Snapchat, Line, WeChat, and others, plain old text messaging seems a bit antiquated by comparison. Due to the technological constraints ...

Google is announcing that today, a year and a half after it first unveiled RCS chat as Android’s primary texting platform, it is actually making RCS chat Android’s primary texting platform. That’s ...