Beeper is a mobile chat app that’s made a name for itself by offering a “universal” approach to chat, allowing you to communicate with people who are using apps other than Beeper. Most notably, the company has tried several different approaches to letting folks with Android phones communicate with iPhone users by tapping into Apple’s […]
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Lilbits: Another Intel Core i9-13900H mini PC, another Beeper Mini v Apple update, and Asus ROG Ally 2 coming this year (maybe)
2 Comments on Lilbits: Another Intel Core i9-13900H mini PC, another Beeper Mini v Apple update, and Asus ROG Ally 2 coming this year (maybe)It’s only been a few months since the first mini PCs with Intel Core i9 processors began to hit the streets, but they’re becoming increasingly common. As spotted by the folks at AndroidPC.es, one of the latest is the Chatreey IT12, which is a compact desktop computer available with up to an Intel Core i9-13900H […]
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Beeper is done fighting with Apple over iMessage for Android
This month cross-platform messaging app Beeper launched a new app called Beeper Mini that allowed Android users to tap into Apple’s iMessage service without a Mac or iOS device. It took Apple only a few days to roll out an update that stopped the app from working, prompting Beeper to roll out several new updates […]
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Beeper Mini is back online and free to use (for now)
Last week the company behind the Beeper app announced plans to go all-in on a new version of the app called Beeper Mini. It’s still designed to be a cross-platform messaging app that lets Android users tap into Apple’s iMessage service (and which would, eventually, also support more than a dozen other messaging platforms), but […]
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Beeper Mini, the iMessage-for-Android app stops working days after launch (Updated)
Beeper has been offering a unified messaging platform for a few years, allowing users to open a single app to communicate with contacts via SMS, Google Chat, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, and perhaps most significantly, iMessage. Up until this week though, Android users that wanted to use Beeper to send “blue bubble” messages to […]
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Sunbird’s iMessage for Android app is on “pause” due to “security concerns”
Last week smartphone maker Nothing made waves by announcing plans to launch Nothing Chats, an app that promised to let users of its Android phones tap into Apple’s iMessage service. The promise was that users could use iMessage features like group chats, live typing indicators, and voice notes… and messages would show up on Apple […]
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Nothing Chats app brings iMessage support to the Nothing Phone (2) (Update: Nothing has removed the app from Google Play because it lacks support for encrypted messaging)
6 Comments on Nothing Chats app brings iMessage support to the Nothing Phone (2) (Update: Nothing has removed the app from Google Play because it lacks support for encrypted messaging)The company behind the Nothing line of phones is preparing to launch an app that will solve the “green bubble” problem for Android users sending messages to their iPhone-using contacts. First unveiled November 14, 2023, Nothing Chats is a free app that basically lets your text messages show up as green bubbles in iMessage chats, […]
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Apple will bring RCS messaging to iPhones in 2024
For years, Google and rival phone makers have been pushing Apple to adopt a next-gen text messaging standard called RCS (Rich Communication Services). And for years, Apple has indicated that it has no intention of doing that. But now it looks like Apple is changing course: in a brief statement published by Bloomberg and 9to5Mac, […]
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Sunbird promises to bring iMessage to Android without Apple’s help (but it sounds wonky so far)
4 Comments on Sunbird promises to bring iMessage to Android without Apple’s help (but it sounds wonky so far)Apple has repeatedly indicated that it has no plans to bring its iMessage app to Android. But a handful of third-party companies have been trying to ease the communications between Android and iOS users over the years with third-party software like Beeper, BlueBubbles, and AirMessage, which kinda, sorta gets you part way there with convoluted […]
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Lilbits: Magisk v25.0, Thunderbird 102 beta, Apple M2, and iOS 16
There’s a major new release of Magisk, a tool for customizing and controlling rooted Android devices. After previewing a bunch of new features coming to the open source Thunderbird email client last month, the developers have released a public beta. Apple is following Google’s lead and cleaning up reactions in chats between iMessage and SMS […]