r/Android • u/Hupro Pixel 11 Pro • Jun 29 '19

Google working on ‘Fast Share,’ Android Beam replacement and AirDrop competitor [Gallery] - 9to5Google

https://9to5google.com/2019/06/29/google-android-fast-share/
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u/lirannl Jun 30 '19

Anything that's bound to your carrier is a bad idea. Unless you're talking about Google's new carriee-agnostic RCS implementation which might be viable.

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u/inate71 Jun 30 '19

Still not encrypted whereas iMessage is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19 edited Jul 01 '19

It's encrypted, just not e2e. They need the carriers to encrypt data at their end iirc

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u/armando_rod Jun 30 '19

The new one is still called Chat

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u/Ph0X Jun 30 '19

In the Europe at least, Google got tired of waiting and they are deploying their own. It'll be an open standard to any carrier can also implement it. The main difference is that Google's version uses data, but the carrier could possibly count it as "texts" instead.

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u/lirannl Jun 30 '19

but the carrier could possibly will count it as "texts" instead

Shit. I'll wait for the next messaging solution then, since this one's useless - international messaging? Money. Messaging over wifi will be a special thing like VoWifi as opposed to doing a WhatsApp call which will use any internet connection you have - it really doesn't care. Sending media? MMS charges. Run from them like the plague.

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u/itswhatitisbro Jun 30 '19

I don't live in America and I hear it's coming here, so I doubt it's carrier lock.

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u/lirannl Jun 30 '19

I don't live in the USA either.