Thanks to Google's never - ending push
of Rich Communication Services (or RCS), businesses can now tap into this to offer more engaging experiences.
From Android Messages hinting at a push to Hiroshi Lockheimer noting it for MWC, Google is working to replace SMS
with Rich Communication Services.
Online games might seem innocuous, a top - secret 2008 NSA document warned, but they had the potential to be a «target -
rich communication network» allowing intelligence suspects «a way to hide in plain sight.»
Version 2.7 is rolling out and a teardown reveals work
on Rich Communication Service features like Business Messaging for interactive messaging, as well as dual - SIM support.
The LYF F1 Plus smartphone
supports Rich Communication Services with the Jio4GVoice app, which can allow users to call freely any other network.
Your left hand does know what your right hand is doing (thanks to
rich communication between the right and left cerebral hemispheres, which control the left and right hands, respectively), enabling your left hand to move the needle to the thread even as your right hand is bringing the thread to the needle.
I also think of dancer Merce Cunningham, composer John Cage, poet Charles Olson, painter Josef Albers, to name a few, who worked
in rich communication with each other, artists who looked to each other's concerns, rather than to the concerns of the predecessors in their own fields.
Google's efforts to
make Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging available more widely on Android devices took another major step forward last week with more than two dozen carriers and mobile device makers agreeing to make the company's Android Messages the standard messaging app for their subscribers.
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.
Simultaneously, Facebook has to fend off
richer communication tools like Snapchat's visual messaging, Line's stickers, Google's video chat, and Twitter's worldwide town square.
The rollout also sets the stage for future enhancements
through Rich Communications Services (RCS), which enable things like including large file transfer, more robust group messaging, and more location sharing,» reads the Verizon press release.
Google announced that it is leading an industry - wide initiative to
adopt Rich Communication Services for text messaging.
The name change has just rolled out in the Play Store and arrives as Google prepares for wider adoption of the
new Rich Communications Services (RCS) messaging standard.
The Verge reports that Google has rolled out a new platform based
on Rich Communications Services (RCS) tech to allow businesses to «brand text messages, alerts and other communications, in addition to giving them access to features not available through SMS, such as group texting, high - resolution photos, and read receipts.»
Sprint has quietly added more phones that
support Rich Communications Service (RCS) messaging with the latest version of Google Messenger.
Messenger for Android is all about carrier support,
with Rich Communication Services (RCS), and Hangouts is being repositioned for enterprise and productivity and features desktop video conferencing.
Both carriers pass through Google's Jibe servers for
Rich Communications Services, the would - be successor to SMS / MMS that would enable features found in advanced chat apps like iMessage and WhatsApp such as stickers and voice clips.
Video conferencing in general brings collaboration back to the distributed workforce, and WebRTC nails the sweet spot for easy,
rich communication.
Chat is a consumer - friendly name for
Rich Communication Services (RCS), a standard that is meant to replace SMS and Google has been pushing every major carriers and OEMs to adopt this technology, The Verge reports.
Time for
rich communication.
RCS —
Rich Communication Services — is a replacement for SMS text messaging, and it promises to offer features that the humble SMS text messaging service never could, including read receipts, group chats, and high - res imagery.
The messages rely on RCS, or
Rich Communications Services, a messaging technology that has a wider array of features than the SMS system that has been standard on mobile since the days of the flip phone.
Android Messages is an RCS text app, short for
Rich Communication Services, meaning that it supports document transfer such as photos, messaging typing status (you can see if the other persons are typing), as well as read receipts.
Google says
its Rich Communication Services app is now available on more than one billion devices around the world.
The adoption of
the Rich Communications Services standard is an initiative in the mobile industry that aims to upgrade the outdated SMS experience, the one that fails to take advantage of a modern smartphone's capabilities.
In November 2016, Google integrated RCS (
Rich Communications Services)-- the successor to SMS — with Android Messages.
Rich Communication Services is a next generation messaging protocol that builds on SMS and brings many of the features found in iMessage, including read receipts, active typing indicators and group chat, to non-Apple devices.
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.
With the confirmation that dark mode is not due to make an appearance soon, Google was recently in the news due to their announcement regarding RCS (
Rich Communication Services) platform.
... You don't need to use top - down command and control as an organizing principle and can move to
rich communication and consensus formation.»
Prior to Google I / O, multiple rumors circulated regarding a new messaging app based on
the Rich Communications Services (RCS) platform.
This is as close of a mention to
Rich Communication Services (RCS) as we have seen with Messages.
Google rebrands Messenger as it prepares for the wider adoption of
the Rich Communications Services (RCS) messaging standard.
The next - generation successor to SMS,
Rich Communication Services allows for advanced messaging, with features like texting over Wi - Fi, rich media sharing, group chats, typing indicators, and more.
Google continues to expand the reach of its RCS (
Rich Communications Services) messaging support to more Android users.
Google made its commitment to RCS (
Rich Communications Services) clear last year when the company acquired Jibe, but now things are getting even more serious.
Google has announced that it has been working with the mobile industry to bring RCS (
Rich Communication Services) to many more users by getting the companies to ship Android Messages as the default messaging application.