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We’re spoiled for choice regarding internet messaging platforms, but not everyone has moved on to WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal. Plenty of users across the globe still rely on SMS and MMS to ...

Texting has changed over the past few years. With Android phones' adoption of RCS messaging in 2019 and Apple's reluctant acceptance of the new standard earlier this year in iOS 18, legacy SMS texting ...

What does “Sent as SMS via server” mean? This “Sent as SMS via server” message primarily pops up on Android smartphones when the person you are about to text is no longer connected to RCS. RCS ...

Short Message Service (SMS) has been a staple of text messaging since the flip phone, but it may be time to let it evolve. SMS was created in 1992, back when cellphones could be mistaken for bricks.

From the moment that it became socially acceptable (and technically possible) to send marketing text messages, brands have eagerly jumped on the bandwagon; consumers are now accustomed to receiving ...