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Google messages: universal texting like iMessage for android by default

Nowadays everyone has Google messages installed in their phones right? Excluding some OEMs like samsung or some off brand that does not ship Google messages as default. You can enable rcs chats on samsung phones which will be covered in the later part of this post. Follow on! I've been wanting to write this blog post for quite some time now, so letting all out of my mind in this post in any manner. So, please read carefully. You can now text anyone in your friend circle with just internet but it must have a sim card in it. Internet can be via Wi-Fi or mobile data, it doesn't matter. There's something called as RCS chats which stands for rich communication system. A protocol made by Google for texting which they say is sms 2.0 for the internet. Every phone has the RCS chats feature enabled by default if you bright your phone after the year 2021. If it is not turned on you need to enable it by going into Google messages app's settings. Enable rcs chats. You might need to