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Google Messages RCS Goes Global, End-to-End Encryption is Coming Too

Kellen November 19, 2020 37

Google announced a couple of big items related to its Messages app this morning, both of which have to do with RCS. The biggest news is likely in encryption, but if you've been waiting for RCS to arrive in your country, it should now be. Global RCS rollout...

Thank You, Google, We Needed Another Messaging App

Kellen November 18, 2020 56

The big news out of Google today has to be their announcement of a new Google Pay experience that turns their payment platform into more than just a transactional space. Going forward, Google Pay will let you send and receive money, pay for goods in stores and...

Google Messages Starts Getting Message Scheduling

Kellen November 4, 2020 20

Google Messages continues to improve and become a messaging app worth using as your default. With features like reactions, Bubbles, and RCS all seeing action, and plans for more on the horizon, Messages is finally turning into the Google messaging app we've...

Google Messages Plans Clean-Up of All Those Passcodes Filling Your Inbox

Kellen September 26, 2020 24

Having some level of additional security on the dozens of online accounts we access throughout a day or week or month is so important. It feels at times like our data is never safe, but requiring a passcode or something similar to login to your bank or email...

Google Messages Gets Its iMessage Reactions, Other New Features

Kellen July 22, 2020 41

Google Messages, the messaging app Google has spent a good deal of time improving in recent years with features like RCS, is getting a set of improvements this week you'll love. For one, iMessage-like reactions to messages are finally here after a few months...

Google Messages Gets Android 11 Bubbles!

Kellen July 1, 2020 19

Shortly after the first Android 11 Beta build dropped in early June without many apps supporting its new Bubbles feature, Google told us to expect Bubbles to arrive in the beta channel within a week and then the stable channel at some point over the next month...

Android 11 Bubbles Coming to Google Messages Really Soon

Kellen June 12, 2020 21

Bubbles, one of the bigger features coming to Android 11, haven't had the best start in the Android 11 beta because there are almost no apps that support them. Facebook Messenger does, but Google's own Messages does not yet. That should change over the next...

T-Mobile and Google Team Up to Make RCS Work Better Between Carriers

Kellen May 26, 2020 80

I'm starting to get the sense that RCS might finally be taking off after all these years. Thanks to carriers initially not wanting to play nicely with Google for the messaging service, there was slowness to adopt, but then Google said, "To hell with you all,"...