Beeper Mini launched today, and it’s genuinely game-changing. Over the years, we’ve all seen many approaches to bringing iMessage to Android. It’s even more game-changing when you realize how this was ...

Note: As I was getting ready to publish this piece, Beeper’s servers began faltering. TechCrunch reports that Beeper Mini had lost access to Apple’s servers, though I’m still able to send text-based ...

For years, companies have tried making iMessage available on Android so that Android users can stop the green bubbles on iPhones. Over the years, we have seen many different approaches to this, ...

I told you recently that I'm a longtime iPhone user who is not interested in RCS-iMessage interoperability. I've never had a blue vs. green bubble problem when keeping in touch with my contacts who ...

In the past week, I have sent an iMessage to one friend from a command-line Python app and to another from a Pixel 3 Android phone. Sending an iMessage without an Apple device isn't entirely new, but ...

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, ...

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 ...

Just days after announcement, the Beeper app that (briefly) allowed for native iMessage communication on Android isn't working, and it appears that Apple already found a way to kill it. Announced on ...