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RCS is the Future of Android Texting, Tell Your Friends

Kellen December 18, 2019

The story of RCS is a long, multi-year tale filled with early unrealized promises, ounces of hope crushed by wireless carriers, the snakiest of moves by those same carriers, and an eventual power play by Google to help establish the future of text messaging on...

RCS is Really, Really Available to All US Users of Google Messages

Kellen December 12, 2019

We asked you the other day if RCS had changed your life and the responses have been fun to try and recap. We asked because RCS began rolling out in mid-November, so we assumed it had finished and that you all had time to play with it some. As it turns out, we...

Google Adds Spam and Verification Protection to Text Messages

Kellen December 12, 2019

Protection is coming to your text message experience on Android, thanks to a couple of new features rolling out to Google's Messages app on Android. Going forward, you'll get verified messages from businesses, when you ask for account help, plus Google is...

How Much Has Your Life Changed With RCS?

Kellen December 9, 2019

When Google said "Ahhh, to hell with carriers!" last month and started rolling out RCS to US Android users through the Google Messages app, there was quite the celebration. Part of me was proud to see Google finally take a bit of a stand against carriers when...

Google is Done Waiting for Carriers, Rolls Out RCS to US in Messages Today

Kellen November 14, 2019

Google is doing it, they are finally doing it. RCS is broadly rolling out to the US through Google's Messages app starting today. Google shared the news with us this morning in a somewhat striking turn of events. You may recall that as they began rolling out...

I Think the Internet Just Figured Out a Way to Force RCS on Your Android Phone

Kellen October 28, 2019

RCS might have arrived in the US without the greenlight from Google and before the carriers can push their own version in 2020. The Internet, because it will always be undefeated, might have figured out how you can force enable RCS on your phone right now. A...

Hey, Google Messages Now has an Android Beta to Join

Kellen July 8, 2019

Google Messages, like so many of Google's apps, now has a beta program. It's free to join and might give you an earlier look at new features before the rest of the world gets them. RELATED: Which beta apps are you signed-up for? To join, all you need to do is...

Google Says It’s Ready to Bring RCS to Your Phone, Carriers be Damned

Kellen June 17, 2019

Less than two weeks ago, just as Verizon gave the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ access to RCS messaging, I shared with you a few pointed thoughts on how bad the RCS situation has become. In fact, I said that "RCS is dumb" because of the way Google has tried to roll...