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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The prior version of Beeper Mini did not require an ‌Apple ID‌, and it registered each Android user's phone number with Apple's iMessage servers without Apple's permission. The app's developers used ...

Beeper Mini will soon require you to have access to a Mac for using iMessage on Android. Or you will have to use your friend’s Mac to set up Beeper Cloud. Beeper’s latest workaround comes after ...

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 ...

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 ...

Making iMessage work on Android has been the holy grail for plenty of companies over the years with limited success. Sunbird was one company that seemed to have managed it, although there was some ...

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 ...