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Apple has confirmed that RCS messages won't be the end of green bubbles. Here are all the details on this.
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Rich Communication Services, or RCS for short, has been bandied around for a while now. With involvement from mobile carriers, Microsoft and Google, RCS has been put forward as a replacement for SMS.
Well, it seems like Google is planning to replace Allo with iMessage-like standard for SMS called "Chat" on Android but with no end-to-end encryption.
In a world where we all live with multiple instant messaging services, whether your favorite is WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage or something completely different, it can be all too easy to forget that once upon a time the only way to send and receive instant messages on a mobile device was good old fashioned SMS.
Here's how to schedule and automatically send SMS text messages from your iPhone. No jailbreak is required for this. Works with all iOS versions.
Scheduled is an iPhone app that gives iOS users the ability to schedule text messages, calls and email, allowing them to be sent at a better time without the fear of forgetting.
SwitchService makes it possible to switch between sending an iMessage or SMS instantly in iOS 9 Messages app, without having to open Settings or wait for the message to fail.
The extremely popular Short Message Service (SMS), or text messaging as it's more commonly known, has been one of the most popular methods of instant communication since it became commonplace in the mid-1990s. In 2011 alone, which is when text messages numbers peaked, consumers in the United States sent more than 2 trillion SMS. That figure may now be in decline thanks to instant messaging tools like WhatsApp, but it's still an extremely popular form of communication. It seems that Microsoft has recognized that importance, and will look to provide users with the functionality in Windows 10 to be able to send texts directly from a PC to a phone.
