5Ging is a new section of 5G for Love Fan. What can 5G bring? No one can give a convincing answer. Listening to the story of downloading a movie for a few seconds, it is better to look at the history that is happening.

Since June 6 this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 5G licenses, domestic mobile phone manufacturers and operators have released their own 5G products.

In late July, we used the 5G version of Huawei Mate 20 X to the future of the first 5G commercial pilot areas in Tianhe District, Guangzhou. In the club, it has recorded a network speed of 738 Mbps, which is about 15 times that of the 4G mobile phone in your hand.

From the World Mobile Communications Conference (MWC) in Barcelona in February this year, colleagues at the editorial department of Ai Faner have tried several different brands of 5G mobile phones.

Hardware manufacturing, software development, and communication technologies drive the evolutionary iteration of consumer-grade communications tools, so in the past four decades, domestic consumer-grade communications tools have experienced pagers, big brothers, feature machines, and ever-changing smartphones. .

2G Let people start using mobile phones, 3G popularizes the use of apps, and 4G popularizes mobile payment, mobile online games, short videos, smart homes and more.

We believe that in the 5G era, the most important function of smartphones, “receiving and receiving messages,” will change dramatically, and this is definitely not just “fast.”

A standard for 5G phones may be RCS

Smartphones are used to better communicate and better collect and send messages.

▲ VoLTE has become a standard for smartphones since 2016

In the 4G era, VoLTE (High Definition Voice Call) is a high-speed wireless communication standard for mobile phones and data terminals. So what will be the communication standard for 5G mobile phones in the 5G era? One of them is RCS.

According to the industry insiders in the field of communication, Ai Faner revealed that GSMA (Global System for Mobile Communications) is holding hands of members of the communication industry chain such as operators and mobile phone manufacturers to develop a 5G agreement – 5GJA (5G Joint Activity) ).

Among them, 5GJA may use RCS as a necessary support function for terminals such as mobile phones in the 5G era.

RCS is known as the next-generation product to replace SMS. The full name is Rich Communication Suite. It was proposed by the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) in 2008. It has an instant messaging function based on all-IP network. Help operators enrich the customer experience of existing communication methods.

RCS allows regular users to send rich content such as pictures, music, text, and shared locations on the smartphone messaging application interface. Therefore, some people understand RCS as “traditional traditional SMS”, but this understanding is not accurate.

The SMS service was first introduced on the GSM system phone, and it has been used since the 1990s. RCS has the inclusiveness of communication protocols, which is not the same as SMS.

As of the end of July this year, domestic RCS services have covered more than 150 million terminals, including Huawei, Xiaomi, Meizu and other models of mobile phones, with more than 50 million users, and are growing rapidly. Huawei has supported RCS since EMUI 8.1, and recently released EMUI 10 also supports RCS.

5GJA This agreement is expected to be launched in October this year. That is to say, the GSMA, an industry association representing the common interests of global mobile operators, is pushing RCS into a basic function on the next generation of communication tools.

▲ 5G timetable, picture from: GSMA official website

Know that GSMA also positions itself as a “5G ecosystem development booster.” With the advent of the 5G era, the communication standards of smartphones are being iterated, which will certainly change the way we “send and receive messages”.

RCS + 5G + Cloud, what new experience will it be?

At present, we basically use the super app such as phone, SMS, and WeChat to communicate and change according to different scenarios.

Although the communication experience is quite rich, in fact, we still can’t get a satisfactory messaging experience on existing smartphones.

From the perspective of ordinary users, the information that can be carried by telephones and traditional text messages is too singular, and the more bloated social app also consumes too much time and attention.

In addition, from the perspective of the enterprise, enterprises can only notify consumers one-way through SMS, and the enterprise itself has a strong need based on communication messages and consumer interactions. The pain point.

Under these pain points, the development direction of the next generation communication method is hidden.

Therefore, whether it is Google, such as the system, Samsung mobile phone manufacturers such as mobile phones, and China Mobile, which provides communication services, they all think of RCS.

The process of getting products and services to support RCS is called “Resurrection SMS Portal.”

China Mobile released a 5G news product, RCS Commercial Rich Media, during this year’s MWC World Mobile Mobile Conference in Shanghai.

The current 5G news is mainly composed of “RCS Enhanced SMS” for individuals and “RCS Commercial Rich Media News” for enterprises.

The former allows users to send and receive text, pictures, audio and video, positioning and files on the page of the SMS application; the latter allows enterprises to use the text message, Chatbot (chat bot) and other functions to the consumer Provide convenient and rich services.

If you say “RCS has a simple but full-featured messaging experience for smartphones,” it only solves the pain points of users in the last communications era.

So RCS commercial rich media news in the 5G era, will bring us a new experience is: smart phones will become more “fresh”.

As we have experienced before, 5G networks have the advantages of high speed and low latency. With the development of technologies such as cloud computing and edge computing, sensors on hardware are becoming more and more intelligent. In the future, more and more hardware and software services will be able to run in the cloud.

Under this trend of “RCS + 5G + Cloud”, it is very likely that our smartphones will not download so many bloated apps in the future.

Because Chatbot is equivalent to a small program for 5G messaging products. By accessing Chatbot, RCS commercial rich media messages allow users to complete a one-stop search, interaction, payment, etc. in the SMS interface.

When texting on your phoneWith the application page, we can easily send and receive various messages and get various life services. In the future, there is no need to install an app that takes up more than a dozen GB of space, and does not need to spend a few hundred MB of traffic per week to upgrade the app.

In the near future, we also saw the 5G news engineering machine from China Mobile’s 5G News Innovation Open Lab.

For example, in the portal of a 5G message, I need to check the balance of the credit, the remaining traffic, and then order a directed traffic packet based on my traffic usage. These three services can be obtained in one breath through a conversation with Chatbot.

The form of the Chatbot reply can be either a concise text or a visual card. The dialog also provides options based on the content on the card.

RCS allows us to interact with operators and services, making it an interactive and convenient experience.

There is another experience. At the 5G news portal, we can directly query the e-commerce platform’s promotions, purchase goods, and make payments.

In contrast, if the same operation process occurs on the e-commerce app, not only need to jump in different pages, but even when paying, you may have to switch to the third-party payment app.

5G message will be the message service portal for the 5G era

From ancient times to the present, the “message” is more and more important to emphasize the interaction between people.

However, in the 5G era, the dimension of “message” will also include the interaction between “machines and machines” and “people and machines.”

The current “enhanced SMS” experience for individuals in 5G messaging has been largely realized, and RCS is building a new messaging ecosystem that includes consumers, businesses, and messaging platforms.

The industry believes that with the 5G era and the enhancement of RCS communication capabilities, all walks of life will slowly enter this news ecosystem. At that time, enterprises can push rich media content and provide intelligent services such as red envelopes, videos, jump malls, Chatbot, etc. through operators’ messages.

▲ The domestic RCS news ecological prototype has been created

In this new ecosystem, the Chatbot in RCS commercial rich media has become the terminal interaction when “people and machines” communicate. This also means: 5G messages will be one of the 5G era messaging service portals.

5G era, machines, sensors,The cloud and the terminal will pass information without stopping.

With the RCS message portal, combined with 5G, artificial intelligence and other technologies, we will get the services and experience that can’t be realized in the 4G era. These experiences are likely to first appear in scenarios such as the Internet of Things, the Internet of Vehicles, and the Artificial Intelligence Assistant.

For example, when an RCS message is connected to the Internet of Things, it can be used as an entrance to connect to the artificial intelligence of the cloud, and at the same time, as a terminal to control various smart homes such as air conditioners and refrigerators in the home.

The empty nesting youth in the future city, before returning to the door of the house, can first send a message “I am coming back” by text or voice through 5G messages, to inform the smart home control, let it turn on the lights and air conditioners in the home, and play music.

For example, in the future scenario of autonomous driving, we may be able to issue a command to the car via a 5G message, allowing it to automatically drive from the underground parking garage to the parking lot door.

When 5G messages are combined with the local artificial intelligence of the smartphone, it may be based on the habit of communicating and sending and receiving information to each person, thus training a personalized artificial intelligence assistant.

It can help you automatically respond to all kinds of information in the 5G message portal, like Iron Man’s Jarvis artificial intelligence butler. This information may come from humans or from Chatbot. In other words, this portal will also have the ability to organize your information.

In these future scenarios, RCS will also have our unexpected features and experiences due to the iterative advancement of other technologies. What we can imagine is just the tip of the iceberg.

All in all, RCS will be the communication function that 5G mobile phones must support. Under the trend of RCS + 5G + cloud, RCS will be the message service portal of 5G era.The look of the 5G message.

It will not only improve the experience of messaging between people, but also solve the existing pain points of communication, and change the way of information flow and interaction between “machines and machines” and “people and machines”. An important part of machine collaboration.