The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their own ...

Short Message Service (SMS) has been a staple of text messaging since the flip phone, but it may be time to let it evolve. SMS was created in 1992, back when cellphones could be mistaken for bricks.

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The entire world shifted from Short Message Service (SMS) to other chat services like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. The feature-rich alternative messaging apps lured users and have been improving ...

The rise of online instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, iMessage, and Facebook Messenger has brought about several improvements and reasons to never look back to using traditional SMS. We ...

For businesses and other enterprise environments, Google Messages today announced Android RCS Archival on Pixel phones.

Though we have come a long way when it comes to communicating with friends and family over the internet thanks to social media apps like WhatsApp and Snapchat, sometimes plain old texting through the ...

If you buy a new phone, Google makes it easy to transfer most of your data, letting you pick up where you left off. However, text messages won't automatically be transferred to your new phone. So any ...

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 ...

What does “Sent as SMS via server” mean? This “Sent as SMS via server” message primarily pops up on Android smartphones when the person you are about to text is no longer connected to RCS. RCS ...