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T-Mobile Advance Messaging Service
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"To use this new service, a customer's device must have a long-term evolution, or LTE, connection, or a wireless Internet connection"
So if you're in an area with no LTE coverage or WiFi this thing doesn't work.
Read more: What Is T-Mobile's Advanced-Messaging Service? (TMUS) http://www.investopedia.com/article...s-advancedmessaging-service.asp#ixzz3sXhzHOmT
So if you're in an area with no LTE coverage or WiFi this thing doesn't work.
Read more: What Is T-Mobile's Advanced-Messaging Service? (TMUS) http://www.investopedia.com/article...s-advancedmessaging-service.asp#ixzz3sXhzHOmT
"To use this new service, a customer's device must have a long-term evolution, or LTE, connection, or a wireless Internet connection"
So if you're in an area with no LTE coverage or WiFi this thing doesn't work.
Read more: What Is T-Mobile's Advanced-Messaging Service? (TMUS) http://www.investopedia.com/article...s-advancedmessaging-service.asp#ixzz3sXhzHOmT
To be fair that's most customers.
If anything all this means is once the iPhone gains support, we'll have iMessage like functionality with Android users.
OOOH! Lets make those bubbles teal! Not quite iMessage, not quite standard text.
Lol teal. That would be kinda cool
So this service will probably be out 2015-2016 I'm guessing. Verizon and/or AT&T? Eh they'll scoff at the feature, calling it trash and then finally slip it through the door, half-baked, a few years later. Maybe by 2018 or so.
iMessage is also encrypted. Is this thing encrypted? I didnt read too deep into it.
No. It's still basic SMS, just upgraded to be more IM-like. It's kinda like a VoLTE call - it's still a phone call, through and through.
Att already announced they have this feature...Lol teal. That would be kinda cool
So this service will probably be out 2015-2016 I'm guessing. Verizon and/or AT&T? Eh they'll scoff at the feature, calling it trash and then finally slip it through the door, half-baked, a few years later. Maybe by 2018 or so.
Oops well my bad. Just going off previous behavior, mostly applies to Verizon I suppose.
He's talking about VoLTE calls vs normal calls. VoLTE calls use packeted data over the Internet (or that kind of network), while normal calls use older, proprietary protocols. iMessage is kind of like IM'ing over the internet, SMS is an older protocol, and AMS is also kind of like IM'ing (uses packets over the internet).