Can we just get third party RCS support
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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Google recently announced they're backing the new RFC 9420 standard - no clue what that means for the future of RCS or if this standard will go anywhere but optimistically this can be the one everyone gets behind and is open to everyone? ๐คท
That's not a messaging standard, it's just a specific security protocol. Doesn't really have much to directly do with RCS.
What do you mean? On my Pixel 6 I already get RCS messages from other phones
Third party apps like Textra or Pulse can't access the RCS APIs, if you want to use a different carrier messaging app you can't use RCS currently. Also as far as I know the system doesn't actually know what RCS messages are and they're stored as SMS/MMS internally. Like if you restore from a backup or clear data on Google Messages, all your existing RCS messages appear as SMS/MMS.
I still use Textra. I switched over to the Google Messenger app for a month or two. I ended up going back to Textra... I guess I care more about the user experience than RCS. But I would like to have RCS. I believe Google promised it years ago but never delivered.
Eh, maybe take this with a grain of salt - I cross posted this from [email protected], but taking a closer look at the article their source is this tweet (nitter link), and the account directly says in the account bio "Not a Google Account, not affiliated with Google". So just be warned this is not an official announcement from the Pixel team like the article claims.
Theoretically if the chipset supports the bands whatever satellite provider uses, the phone can support it.
Given the terrestrial radio performance of my 6, I wouldn't ditch my satphone for it.
And it has a reasonable antenna and a proper amplifier. The kit to talk to the satellites isn't usually exactly like the kit to talk to cell phone towers. In theory you send and receive on the correct frequency and it just happens but usually you either need to be pushing a little bit more power or you need to be highly directional to get reliable communication.
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