What is Android Messages? Easily explained
In this article, we will simply explain what Android Messages is. Google is trying to establish serious competition with WhatsApp, iMessage and Facebook Messenger with its in-house service.
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- Android Messages is Google's own messenger and offers the sharing of messages and pictures via SMS and MMS. Google does not rely on Internet messaging like iMessage, WhatsApp and Co., but tries to make sending messages via the SMS protocol better.
- With the app you can send SMS, MMS and money, create groups and share locations. However, this does not work for all mobile phone providers because Google uses a new technology called RCS for these functions.
- Google did not want to believe in the end of SMS and MMS and instead pushed ahead with the development of the RCS protocol. This extends the previous SMS protocol by many functions such as location sharing, data transmission or read confirmations.
- The planned features for Android Messages also include the desktop messages that Apple and WhatsApp have been offering for a long time. You could use it to send messages via Android Messages conveniently from your PC.
- Overall, this is a major attack on already established messengers such as WhatsApp, Telegram or Facebook messenger. The extent to which Android messages can prevail remains to be seen.
- If you are already using the said messenger services, there is no real reason to change. "SMS 2.0" could only be of interest in the future in areas with poor mobile data connections.
In the next practical tips we will show you how the new status of WhatsApp works and what the "now active" message in Facebook Messenger means.