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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: RCS messaging
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 22:49:02 +0200
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On 2025-04-01 21:19, Stan Brown wrote:
> Android 15, Google Pixel 8a, Google Messages and Google's camera app

moto g52 and moto g62, Android 13 both.

> 
> A couple of months ago I turned on RCS chats. There are a couple of
> downsides, but I wonder if there are any upsides.
> 
> Bad -- None of these happened till I turned RCS chats on:
> 1. When I enclose a photo in a text, text and photo are transmitted
> as two separate messages. The same happens when someone encloses a
> photo in a message to me: it's two separate messages.

Not here.


> 2. When I forward a message that I received via Verizon's email-to-
> text feature, and it contains a photo, the photo is queued for
> forwarding but the text is discarded.

No Verizon here, so can't replicate.

> 
> 3. If I start a text, then take a photo and share it with the
> intended recipient of the text, Messages throws away the text I
> typed.

Not here, I just tried.

> 4. When someone _starts_ typing a response to a text I sent, I get
> the sound for a received text, and then I don't know whether to wait
> for them to finish and hit send, or go back to what I was doing and
> then get interrupted again when they do.

Not here, I just tried.


> 5. Senders' emojis or likes are transformed into some very
> distracting animations.

I think this feature can be activated/deactivated, I saw something about 
it. I just posted a reaction to a message and the receiver gets no 
animation.

> 
> Good -- What am I missing?

It is gratis, even internationally. SMS are not gratis here.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.