And Google says that an Android
RCS client is in the works, being made in collaboration with several Android OEMs and the aforementioned mobile operators...
Huawei joins several other OEMs, including LG, Motorola, and Sony, in adopting and preloading Android Messages as the default
RCS client, and thus providing a consistent user experience.
Android Messages is Google's official
RCS client and has also been adopted by several manufacturers.
Android Messages, for the uninitiated, is Google's official SMS and
RCS client.
Version 2.9 of Android Messages is rolling out and a teardown reveals that Google has very big plans for its official SMS /
RCS client.
Google has just announced that a slew of OEMs have agreed to use Android Messages as the default
RCS client.
With version 3.0 of Android Messages beginning to roll out this week, Google is already working on the next update to the SMS and
RCS client.
Not exact matches
In addition,
RCS can be accessed by counsel 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, allowing them to serve their
clients better.
In our previous work, 27 we showed that Hacking Team's
clients — which, according to HT, are governments or government agencies28 — appear to use one or more fixed circuits of «proxy servers» to exfiltrate data from computers infected with
RCS, through third countries, before reaching an «endpoint.»
According to leaked Hacking Team
RCS documentation, installation of
RCS updates requires a user license file from the company.54 Moreover, Hacking Team states that without its continued support to a
client, its product «soon becomes useless.»
That doesn't help most people, and it seems that Google is focusing Hangouts more as a corporate tool (and it's pretty excellent for that) while they build full
RCS support into Google Messaging, along with their own rich messaging
client (that doesn't tie into your SMS) in Allo as a capable substitute to WhatsApp.