Re: RCS messaging

On 2025-04-03 12:26, micky wrote:

In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 3 Apr 2025 08:37:04 +0200, Jörg Lorenz
<hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
 

On 03.04.25 05:52, sms wrote:

On 4/2/2025 11:23 AM, Stan Brown wrote:
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You do know that pretty much every carrier maintains a way to send an
email to a particular phone number?(*)  It's not just Verizon. (I
have Visible, but the email-to-phone thing is the same because
Visible uses its corporate parent Verizon's network.)

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The e-mail to SMS and e-mail to MMS gateways are very useful. I didn't
think that there would be an e-mail to RCS gateway.

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Is it really? In other parts of the world where mobile communication is
more advanced than in the US such a service is completely unknown

 Then in this regard, the communication outside the US and Canada (and
the rest of Latin America, I suspect) is less advanced.
 

and I
cannot see how that could be useful.

 Let's say you are using your computer and you want to send a message to
a cellphone.

You can't, not here. Maybe you can find a gateway, but they may require payment, or at least registration. So there are privacy issues.
I asked google, in Spanish, and got an answer, which I translated:
Send text messages
    1 On a computer, go to voice.google.com.
    2 Open the Messages tab.
    3 At the top, click Send a message.
    4 Enter a contact's name or phone number. ...
    5 At the bottom, type your message and click Send .
https://support.google.com/voice/answer/115116?hl=es&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
The full text of the site says it is USA only.
Another answer says to use WhatsAPP or iMessages on the computer. You need a phone for that to work. I think there is another web interface for google messages.
Another answer says using mysms, which connects to your phone.
Here <https://www.cloudtalk.io/es/blog/8-formas-sencillas-de-enviar-mensajes-de-texto-del-ordenador-al-movil/> they list 8 ways, and some of them are using web sites that offer the service. But the information is not correct for my country.
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Cheers, Carlos.