{"id":8876,"date":"2021-07-21T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8876"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:29:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:29:21","slug":"verizon-to-make-googles-messages-the-default-app-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/verizon-to-make-googles-messages-the-default-app-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon To Make Google\u2019s Messages The Default App On Android"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday, Verizon Communications announced plans to make Google&#8217;s Messages the default messaging app on all Android devices being sold next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Google&#8217;s Messages have similar features to Apple&#8217;s iMessage, Rich Communication Services (RCS) Technology, which replaces SMS-based texts, allows users to send and receive high-quality photos and videos. Users can also chat over Wi-Fi and mobile and know when messages are being read among several other features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, T-Mobile and AT &amp; T said they would make Google&#8217;s messaging app the default app on all Android devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Verizon, &#8220;Customers using Verizon&#8217;s Message+ app will also get full access to RCS capabilities by the end of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-verizon-google-messages\/verizon-to-make-googles-messages-default-app-on-android-devices-from-2022-idUSKBN2EQ22D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon Communications announced plans to make Google&#8217;s Messages the default messaging app on all Android devices in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[207,40,243],"class_list":["post-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-android","tag-google","tag-verizon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8917,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}