A new RCS update could connect iPhone and Android video calls, someday

iPhone and Android users mightiness beryllium capable to marque interoperable video calls done their messaging apps - eventually. Last week, the GSM Association (GSMA) announced that the finalized RCS Universal Profile 4.0 modular volition fto users crook 1-to-1 oregon radical RCS chats into video calls acknowledgment to a diagnostic called Messaging‑Initiated Video Calls (MIVC).

"MIVC volition guarantee the continuity of the speech by allowing radical members to articulation an ongoing video telephone that they could not judge erstwhile it started, arsenic good arsenic synchronise MIVC logs wrong the chat timeline," the GSMA says. "When implemented, MIVC paves the mode for the archetypal natively supported v …

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