The first SMS was sent in 1992, when an engineer of an IT service company based in the U.K. sent it to his colleague to wish him a Merry Christmas. One year later, Finnish company Nokia released the ...

SMS, or Short Message Service, is the protocol that cellular phones use to send and receive text messages over a 2G, 3G, 4G, or 5G network. Unlike app-based messaging services, you don't need a data ...

Rich Communication Services (RCS) is designed for this moment. Instead of unfamiliar phone numbers, messages arrive with ...

Google’s Quick Share is poised to make file sharing between Android, iPhones, and Macs as easy as a single tap.(AI-generated) Google is moving closer to bridging the long-running gap between Android ...

Some Android users are starting to see a new privacy safeguard pop up in Google Messages. Images flagged as nudity are being blurred before you open them. It's part of Google's Sensitive Content ...

On Android, blue dots or chat icons show that RCS is enabled, giving you advanced texting features missing from traditional ...

When I made the switch from my iPhone 15 Pro Max to a Galaxy S25 Ultra earlier this year, one of the first things I missed was the ability to delete text messages that I'd sent. The ability to unsend ...

WhatsApp, one of the leading instant messaging platforms which already allows users to create stickers from images, but until now, saving them required sending the sticker in an active chat first. The ...

You might already have a good idea of which smartphone you want to be your next one. But there are more solid options available now than ever before, making the decision not as cut-and-dry as it used ...

Pixel phones are filled with efficiency-enhancing Google intelligence, and one area that’s all too easy to overlook is the way the devices can improve the act of actually talking on your cellular ...