![]() The GSM Association – the standards body for mobile phones – came up with RCS. With the advent of smartphones, there was a need for a more advanced form of text messaging. On iPhone, you know when a message uses SMS because it will be a green bubble rather than the blue bubble of iMessages, which use a far more sophisticated Apple-specific messaging system. The closest you could get to emojis was “emoticons”: using ordinary punctuation characters to create things like smiles :-) and frowns :-(.īecause SMS is a key communications standard, every phone today can use it, whether iPhones or Android phones. It was limited to 160 characters, and only alphanumeric ones. It used a standard known as SMS, which was a very basic one geared to the limited capabilities of phones at the time. Text messaging was first introduced back in the days of feature phones. ![]() Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened, mostly due to the rivalry between Apple and Google, and that’s something Google wants to change … ![]() In recent years, there’s been a drive to switch to RCS (rich communications services, or rich communications suite), a more sophisticated text messaging standard. ![]() SMS (short messaging service) is simply the original technical standard for text messages. Although we tend to think of text messaging and SMS as synonyms, that’s not quite the case. ![]()
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