When we refer to the communication that exists between two or more people in real time connected to the Internet or mobile data, regardless of the distance that exists between the computers to send the text they exchange, we are talking about instant messaging.
It differs from email because these apps need all the people involved to be customers to be able to provide the service. These types of software have taken an important turn in the world of technological communications, making their demand grow at a good pace.
“Google Messages” is the application to send SMS type messages, but with RCS and being able to chat with the guarantee and functionality of a text message. What Google recently announced breaks with the hegemony of WhatsApp and Telegram, among others, since with Google Messanges you can communicate without using a third-party app (such as email), leaving phone operators aside.
What is Google Messages and what is this web application for?
As we told you earlier, Google offers a web application for mobile phones and computers (which are synchronized with each other, a topic that we will see later) so that you can exchange your text messages through an instant messaging format.
with this app you can connect with one or more people no matter where you are in real time being able to send emojis, videos, audio messages, etc. There is the possibility of creating groups for which you can send these messages simultaneously to different accounts.
The main advantages of this web application is that:
- presents RCS chat featureswith which you can obtain benefits to know when another person is writing or has read the message you sent.
- It allows send and receive videos in high quality in an almost instantaneous way, always depending on the connection you have to the Internet.
- The application is compatible for Android operating systems with a version equal to or later than Android™ 5.0 Lollipop.
- It has a system of effective search where you can find the content you shared in previous conversations by touching a search icon and selecting the contact with whom you want to see the history.
- The conversations they present were designed to be livelier and simpler. A great innovation of this application is that you can send and receive payments with Google Pay.
- You can make videos or photos in a simpler way to share since this version presents the option of be able to perform these tasks directly from the application.
- It presents an intuitive design for the user to be able to make communications in a quick and easy thanks to the clean design that d developed for this application. Dark mode is also available when there is little light, thus avoiding eye strain.
These are some of the advantages that we consider important to communicate, but there are many others in which through your interaction with the application you will discover them one by one.
Why is it better to send your text messages by RCS? Benefits
The RCS standardized messaging system for its acronym in English of “Rich Communication Service”, is a protocol that is gaining ground by leaps and bounds in the instant messaging market, since it presents really practical and comfortable benefits in the user experience.
We want to indicate each of them below:
standardized system
The RCS is a new standard that will allow us to use those basic functions for any mobile application that is dedicated to messaging today, that is say we can send, receive text, audio and video messages instantly.
Allows you to send images and videos in sizes up to 10MB without losing their quality.
Universal profiles linked together
With this protocol we can have different profiles associated with our phone number, making this a very practical and comfortable system when downloading a new application that contains the RCS format.
This means that we do not needlogin us” In all the places we want to access, we will simply have to use the default instant messaging application that we have on our phone and be able to start writing directly.
Common rules within a chat
With this Criteria, standards or necessary requirements are established that all chats within an instant message must have. For example, we can know who is writing in real time, who has read my message, we can know if our message has left our device and if the recipient of our communication has reached the phone.
We can also know the time you last connected and know different information about your basic profile.
Share location
If we need to share our location, either in real time or a physical location, the messages with the RCS protocol have it included within the mandatory regulations.
group messages
with a messenger RCS we will be able to send messages instantly to different users of the application or mobile app, and find out if they have already been read or delivered to everyone.
Web navigator
A great advantage that it has is that we can use our desktop computers to sync activities that we have on the phone for the respective mobile messaging applications, and have our conversations in real time when we are in front of the screen doing other tasks.
Leave aside the service operators
With Google Messages you will not only be able to chat instantly, but you will also not need to download any third-party application so that you can communicate.
You will not depend on telephone service operators, you will only need an Android phone and a Google Chrome browser. Although it is not yet clear how it will be charged in the future, for the moment the main companies are including this messaging in their plans so as not to leave the market.
Will we say goodbye to SMS with the emergence of RCS applications?
Although it was not definitively established that RCS will replace SMS (by English “Short Messaging Service“) all the actions that have been carried out since the application of this communication protocol indicate that yes they will.
To take into account this statement that we are discussing, it is enough to know that with a RCS system telephone service providers eliminate special rates every day to be able to send these instant messages.
Another point to take into account is the convenience that these services provide. If we were to compare it with SMS, we believe that no user would opt for the latter, making more and more people choose an RCS.
Steps to send text SMS using the web version of Google Messages from your computer
To be able to send a short service message or SMS using the Google messaging version from your computer you will need to perform the following steps:
Download the application from Google Play
- The first thing we have to do is this step, if we do not have it on our phone, and it is obtain the application through the following link that we provide:
- If we have a higher version They will ask us for permissions so that Google can start using itwe click on “continue” and we hope to download the application. When our Google account is connected we will have to enter the password that we usually use.
- A sign will appear informing us that the application will soon be installed on our mobile, at this step we have to click on “to accept”.
Review on our mobile
The application will be automatically installed on our smartphone. The first thing that they will ask us is if you want to omit or set the application as default to use it as messages, we must put that we do want it as determined, since if we deny it in the next step they will ask us again and we will not be able to move forward until we Let’s say yes it will be the default option.
Later, a warning will appear asking permission for the application to access our SMS, contacts and phone. In this step we press on “Following“
QR code
Once installed on our phone we go to the part that says “Messages for the Web“. We click there and it will come out that we have to scan the QR code which appears in the following
Clever! We already have our phone synchronized with the computer we need to work on.
Start Chat
Click on the tab that says “Start Chat” and we look for the name, number or email of the person we want to contact. The groups to which we belong will also appear here.
We accept Send SMS
Now we have to click on “Send SMS”, the blue triangle that represents a paper plane clever! We have sent our chat. In this way we can send videos and photos, we only have to go to “add file”, we select the one we want to send and it will immediately be able to be sent to our contact.
Are there more RCS apps besides Google Message? Alternatives
There are no other applications that use the RCS protocol at the moment, what Google is doing is developing it and leaving it in the hands of the operatorsbut Google remains silent on this point.
There are alternatives to instant messaging. Apart from the famous WhatsApp and Telegram, we can name you the following regarding Google:
- Google Talk
- Google+ Messenger
- hangouts
- spaces
- chat
- google voice
- google buzz
- hello
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