For more than a decade, iPhone users have enjoyed the exclusivity of blue iMessage bubbles in their chats. That changed in 2023 when the Android riffraff arrived courtesy of apps like Beeper that ...

Personally, I don't get it. I communicate with my friends who use iPhones all the time with my Android devices and never have a problem. But then, I don't tend to depend on every feature known to ...

Beeper Mini was a huge deal in the fight to bring iMessage to Android, but Apple swiftly turned the reverse-engineered method into an inconsistent experience for users. Beeper’s current plan to ...

Apple's pseudo-social monopoly in messaging through iMessage purportedly gives iPhone users a better experience. Beeper is trying to bring Android into the fold. Imad is a senior reporter covering ...

After Apple shut down the mechanism that Android app Beeper Mini was using to bring iMessage to Android users, Beeper Mini's developers today said that they have found a way to bring the app back, ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

Over the past several weeks, iMessage for Android has been a big topic of discussion and, for many, it comes back to why Android users seem to want iMessage so much. Personally, I don’t. iMessage for ...

Last week smartphone maker Nothing made waves by announcing plans to launch Nothing Chats, an app that promised to let users of its Android phones tap into Apple’s iMessage service. The promise was ...

Apple is under pressure to open up its messaging platform. Now, Nothing says it has found a way to let people get iMessage support on its Android-based devices — but there’s a catch that seems to mean ...

Ever since iOS 18, RCS messaging has officially been supported in the iOS Messages app—specifically, via the RCS Universal ...