From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   "texts" in quotes because... read on...   
      
   Earlier this year I had to "upgrade" my cell phone   
   to, in my case, a Motorola, umm, something, running   
   the Android software.   
      
   Aside from the spybot nature (and that's just the   
   admitted ones...) of far too many of the applications   
   (which I've mostly locked off - at least as they   
   report to me..) it's mostly good.  And I have to   
   say I'm impressed at the photo quality which, except   
   for two uses, surpasses my DSLRs [a].   
      
   The problem: while most of the time I can send and receive [b]   
   "text" messages, periodically I run into the following problem.   
      
   Earlier today I was sending out to a dozen or so people   
   (individual, direct messages).  Most went through ok   
   but two of them stayed on my phone with "unable to send"   
   flags.   
      
   They were kind enough to say something like (I forget   
   the exact wording) "unable to establish encrypted connection.   
   Try again in plain text?".   
      
   I told the phone to go ahead.  Still no good.   
      
   Any suggestions?  Note I've sent these people   
   prior and later messages a-ok.   
      
   Thanks.   
      
   My phone, being an Android unit, tries to hook up   
   via the "Rich Communication Services" (RCS) protocol.   
      
   This is pretty ubiquitous in the Android world and   
   is making inroads to iPhones.   
      
   If my phone doesn't get the proper RCS handshake   
   from the recipient, it's supposed to drop back   
   to cleartext SMS (the older arrangement).   
      
   One of the people I was sending to has a pretty   
   new Samsung Android with RCS, the other has an iPhone   
   which might or might not...   
      
   Again, though, I've had earlier and later material   
   go right through.   
      
   Any suggestions?  Thanks mucly   
      
   [a] the two key exceptions are using extreme telephoto   
        settings - as the lenses on my DSLRs are the real   
        optical deal as opposed to digital cropping, and   
        the ability to use polarizing filters.   
      
        Oh, one more: being able to set the shutter speed   
        down to 1/10th or so of a second so I can take   
        pictures of LED signs.  With the phone, the picture   
        is snapped too quickly and often the LED image   
        is only partly captured.   
      
   [b] well, I don't "really" know if I've received all   
        the messages since if I don't get them, and the   
        sender doesn't follow up, etc., etc., etc.   
      
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   Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key   
    		     dannyb@panix.com   
   [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]   
      
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