While unimpressive at first glance, it features a clean Material Design interface and supports the new
RCS Universal Profile for iMessage - like texting on T - Mobile and Sprint.
The aim of Google's
RCS Universal Profile push is to get all major players on board for a rich texting experience from any phone, which would allow you to send Hangouts - like messages from your regular phone number.
Google notes that the carriers that have agreed to
the RCS Universal Profile total a billion subscribers around the world.
Not exact matches
Esper wasn't trying to give
universal thresholds in this paper but rather illustrate by example methodologies for determining whether replication is sufficient or two series might be combined for
RCS.
By implementing a
universal profile on the carrier end,
RCS is as close as we can get to an iMessage experience out - of - the - box across the wide plethora of Android devices.
You would need to be on a carrier that supports
RCS on its
universal profile to take advantage of
RCS services though.
The news comes only months after Google started pushing the Rich Communication Services (
RCS)
Universal Profile, which hopes to replace SMS with a feature - rich, iMessage - like experience.
From there, they created the
Universal Profile and incorporated the tech into the Android Messages app, so now, it's just a matter of getting the carriers to implement it before
RCS messages will be a reality.
RCS replaces SMS as the protocol for messaging, as well as file transfers and a few other things, but the carrier has to support it (the same as they did for SMS - it wasn't
universal when it...
A new «
Universal Profile» was just published to help carriers and OEMs enable Rich Communication Services (
RCS) on any of their smartphones, and the standard hopes to replace SMS with a feature - rich, iMessage - like experience on all phones.
While this is a positive step,
RCS still has a long way to go before
universal adoption.
Google has been trying for years to get other companies on board for a
universal standard that everyone adheres to so that
RCS messaging can be used across all of Android.
And will any major carriers other than Sprint sign on to support
universal RCS?
RCS is dependent on the
Universal Profile 2 standard that allows communication between the company's platform, network providers, and the businesses that have signed up for the program.
With his help, Google has convinced several carriers to support the
Universal Profile standard to ensure that
RCS messages are delivered to customers successfully.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Revenue / Product Budget Initiative Delivery Executive Impact / Epic Execution Verizon Wearables $ 7M Quanta & LG Wear 2.0 Smart watches 3/23/17 Verizon's Android Wear 2.0 Lead Device Verizon Message + $ 10M Integrated Messaging Application 2/2/17 6.4 Release OTT Migration [MQTT]
RCS Server $ 2.5 M
Universal Profile 1.0 - Rich Comms Suite 12/1/16 Proxy Server for Inter Carrier Support Outside Lands Festival $ 15M...