OS now supports RCS messaging with Android phones—but only up to a point. Here's what you need to know about messaging across ...

If you send a text from an iPhone to another iPhone, most of the time that text is blue. If you send a text from an iPhone to an Android phone, that text is green. On its surface, it may seem like no ...

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 ...

You should get an iPhone if you want an iMessage chatting experience and are on Android. That's what I and many others have told you, especially since the Beeper Mini saga started. That's the only way ...

This month cross-platform messaging app Beeper launched a new app called Beeper Mini that allowed Android users to tap into Apple’s iMessage service without a Mac or iOS device. It took Apple only a ...

A bipartisan group of four US senators and representatives asked the Department of Justice whether Apple violated antitrust laws for shutting down an application that enabled Android devices to text ...

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 ...

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 ...

While you can enjoy Microsoft and Google apps on iOS, the opposite is generally not true, with Apple keeping the majority of its apps and services locked away in its own ecosystem. It would be a safe ...

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 ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...