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 Messages is getting a dual SIM switching shortcut that fixes the painful workflow. Just long-press on it for faster ...

Android introduces features enhancing emotional understanding in videos with real-time expressive captions. New emoji combos ...

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 ...

AT&T Messages is shutting down, and those still using the carrier's Android texting apps are being encouraged to move to a different SMS texting app. AT&T Messages consists of two apps, Messages ...

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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 ...

Grainy photos. No support for WiFi. Lingering doubts that someone actually saw your message. Even in 2023, sending a text message from an iPhone to an Android device - and vice versa - feels ...

Americans fired off 110 billion text messages in December 2008, almost doubled from the 48 billion the same month in 2007, according to a recent report from the Census Bureau. Taking advantage of the ...

In short, it is impossible to reliably use RCS for all your messages. While Google is trying to alleviate the problem by ...

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 ...