Spotted blue text bubbles on an Android phone recently? No, it's not a trick. Instead it's a relatively new feature, and here's what it's all about.

Phone users have long dreaded the Android green bubble, showing that a text was sent as an SMS or MMS message instead of ...

Google-owned Android has teamed with comedian Ziwe Fumudoh for an effort asserting that the green text bubbles exchanged in messages between iPhone and non-iPhone devices are costing Apple adherents ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...

Apple has blocked Beeper Mini, which lets Android users send blue-bubble texts to iPhones. The tech giant said the app "exploited fake credentials" and posed a security and privacy risk. The move has ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Google introduced “bubbles” as a means of keeping messaging apps easily accessible by letting them float on top of other apps. In future versions of Android, it sounds like Google may make these a lot ...

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