Rich Communication Services is Google's modernization of SMS and MMS for Android. It offers read receipts, typing indicators, and end-to-end encryption, positioning it as a secure ...

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 ...

Google Messages is testing a new long-press shortcut to quickly switch SIMs while composing messages. The feature reduces the ...

Google took a jab at Apple over how it converts texts and media from Android users to iPhones. Google is calling for Apple to adopt RCS, a new standard for converting media between devices. Users have ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

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 ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

A bizarre bug has emerged that is affecting text messages between iPhone and Android users. According to a number of reports on Reddit, texts sent from an Android user to an iPhone user are ...

QUESTION: Why don’t some Android users get my iPhone text messages? ANSWER: Text messaging was once considered an anti-social communication method by those who grew up having phone conversations as ...

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 ...