Google’s Messages app rolls out global support for successor to SMS


The SMS successor RCS lets you chat across all device and app boundaries – while still offering all the options you’re familiar to from messenger apps. — dpa

160 characters, no more. For decades, the constraints of SMS mercilessly forced us to get creative with abbreviations and shortened sentences when messaging.

No wonder we were all so ready to embrace the new freedoms of messengers like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.

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