One of the big reasons behind the push for RCS adoption is that it can send high quality images, much higher than what MMS can. Soon, the most popular RCS app on Android, Google Messages, will gain the ability to send original quality photos.
This is a new setting in the Photo Picker, a toggle that says either HD or HD+. Not the most informative names, but once you actually tap it, you get more descriptive options: one reduces the image size (and quality), the other sends the photo at original quality (at the expense of using more data). This was discovered by the Android Authority…
