Beeper has produced an Android app that is claimed to actually work with Apple's iMessage system, enabling Android users to communicate with Phone users and displaying blue bubbles, not green ones.

Update (12/11/23) - Apple has announced it shut down Beeper Mini and other third-party applications that enabled Android devices to use the iMessage service and get those coveted blue bubbles iPhone ...

Apple continues to make its communication service iMessage accessible only on its own devices. The open-source project ...

Marques Brownlee, widely recognized for his tech insights, introduced Android (operating system developed by Alphabet Inc. GOOG GOOG users to two unconventional methods to access iMessage, a feature ...

The developers of Beeper Mini, the iMessage for Android app, are back with another attempt to keep Apple's blue bubbles onside, and this time they will ask users to generate their iMessage ...

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 ...

Can an Android OEM really just hack its way into Apple’s iMessage? That is the hard-to-believe plan from upstart phone manufacturer “Nothing,” which says the new “Nothing Chats” will allow users to ...

Beeper Mini is a new app that will people with Androids to use iMessage. It means Android users can send blue-bubble texts, voice messages, and reactions to iPhone users. The prototype was made by a ...

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, ...

The imagined superiority of iPhone users over Android fans is a social problem that can even affect children, says New York Times columnist Brian Chen. But Apple plans to start remedying texting ...

The makers of the Nothing Phone (2) are launching Nothing Chats, which lets Android users who share their Apple ID send messages in the iPhone's regular blue bubbles. Sunbird says that an Apple ...