Tired of juggling chat apps on Android? Here's how to pick the right mix for privacy, popularity, and features so you never ...

Open Whisper Systems, a provider of security-related technologies and apps for mobile devices, has started rolling out an Android version of its private messaging and calling iOS app Signal. In doing ...

Whenever someone asks me why an Android phone is worth considering instead of an iPhone, one of the first things I bring up is the ability to send and receive text messages from my PC’s web browser.

Do you pay for text messaging? If you have a smartphone, you don’t have to. There are plenty of mobile messaging app alternatives that you can try at no cost. They work with different types of phones, ...

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.

RCS is a developed communication protocol that modernizes text messaging using a user’s mobile data plan to send text messages via SMS or MMS. Google began promoting widespread use of RCS in 2019, ...