Google has officially adopted the next-gen “RCS” text messaging protocol – and you can get it on your phone right now. The company is currently pushing every single carrier to move to RCS from SMS ” a much-needed upgrade ” and that will have a significant impact on your texting,…
RCS messaging is here—thanks, Google—but there’s still a chance that you can’t flip the switch on it because, again, Google. Yes, it’s another feature rollout, which means you’ll be staring at your phone for some unknown amount of time, hoping it reveals to you the setting you can use to…
Rich Communication Services (RCS) is touted as the messaging system that will, one day, replace SMS. Those with a few grey hairs will remember the early days of SMS when you could only send messages to people on the same network. But once that changed, SMS became a far more…
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