Re: Samsung no longer shipping with Samsung Messages in the USA

On 22.7.24 7:16 am, Andy Burns wrote:

Steve Hayes wrote:
 

Are you talking about that, or something else -- messages over the
Internet, like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and others?

 Yes, that's how RCS works (either in Google Messages or Samsung Messages
and soon on Apple) but without needing an additional account, it uses
your phone number as ID, has fallback to SMS if your correspondent isn't
reachable by RCS.

If a message is sent with, say, a photo attached/included, does it trigger an extra cash charge from the average service provider like an MMS message? I haven't really seen a definitive answer on the topic, so I assumed it would do so and changed my message program from Google Messages to Spamhound, which only does SMS. I use Whatsapp over WiFi for anything fancy, so the old age pension stretches a bit further.
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