There's good news and bad news for iPhone owners with Android friends. First the bad: Apple will probably never bring iMessage to Android. But on the bright side, it doesn't need to. It's impossible ...

This is evidence that Android and iPhone customers "desperately want to be able to chat together" with all of the features available on iMessage. The reason for its success is clear: Android and ...

A few weeks ago, an app called Nothing Chats arrived on the scene with a whole lot of buzz around it. The key selling point was iMessage on Android, and that, too, with blue bubbles. No more green ...

iMessage for Android was once just a pipedream but has since become a reality thanks to a bunch of different workarounds. However, Apple has now made it abundantly clear that it does not want iMessage ...

Google is introducing a massive upgrade to its “Android Switch” tool in Android 17, with the ability to copy more data than ...

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 ...

The renowned but controversial iMessage for Android experience by Sunbird is now making its comeback with a new expansion. More users are eligible to access this experience despite not owning an ...

Beeper Mini brings iMessage to Android without the need to sign in with an Apple ID or run iMessage on a server. All you need is your phone number and a Google sign-in to get started. After a 7-day ...

Believe it or not, a 16-year-old high school student may have been the first to fully reverse-engineer iMessage and turn green Android text bubbles blue on iPhones with the new Beeper Mini app, ...

The impossible has happened. Beeper set out to unify chat platforms into a single bundle, but has ended up solving the iMessage-on-Android conundrum in a terrific fashion. In fact, it has even fixed ...

Android users’ hopes that Apple’s iMessage would be forced to open up in the European Union have been dashed. Bloomberg reports that iMessage won’t qualify for the EU’s new “Digital Markets Act,” ...

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 ...