While MetroPCS may not exist for much longer as a standalone company thanks to the proposed merger with T-Mobile, that isn't stopping the country's fifth-largest carrier from pushing out new services. Today, the company announced Joyn, a message, video chat, and syncing service based on the Rich Communications Services standard. MetroPCS says it's using RCS to power four categories of services, many of which will sound familiar to most smartphone users: contacts presence, enriched chat, content sharing, and Wi-Fi / video calling. Probably the most useful will be "enriched chat" — this is essentially a competitor to iMessage that will include delivery confirmation and message composition alerts. The big plus here is that these messages...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/31/3580392/metropcs-joyn-rcs-messaging-communications
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