What are the protocols?

Question

What is the protocols that SMS use?

What is the protocols that WeChat use?

What is the protocols that WhatsApp use?

Answer 1

Hi Samir!

I hope you are doing well today. Thank you for posting your question for us. It is awesome that you are wanting to learn more about cell phones. I share your interest. :)

For most of it's communications, WeChat uses a proprietary encryption protocol, as MMTLS.

As for Whatsapp, it uses a customized version called the open standard Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). 

Cell phones/smart phones use SMS ("Short message service"), or commonly more well known as "text messaging", which uses Short Message Peer to Peer (SMPP) protocol. They use this to communicate with phone operator gateways. SMPP send and receives messages to and from GSM, UMTS, iDEN, CDMA, and TDMA phones. This is actually a level-7 TCP/IP protocol, which can send messages at a very fast rate.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions about this or if you are wanting to expand your knowledge on this or related topics and we can meet up sometime. I am very knowledgeable with smartphones, apps, computers, other smart devices and I can basically help anywhere across the board. Apple/Google (Android)/Microsoft Expert.

Have a wonderful rest of your Friday!

Sincerely,

Ryan