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Beeper’s new “Universal Chat” app for Android is here, but iMessage isn’t included

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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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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Beepberry is a $79 hackable pocket computer kit with a BlackBerry keyboard

Beepberry is a pocket computer designed for instant messaging. It’s also a hackable, customizable device that can be repurposed to do a bunch of other things. It features a 2.7 inch black and white Sharp memory LCD display and a keyboard that’s literally a spare part from a BlackBerry Classic smartphone. Beepberry is designed to […]

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Signal desktop app ported to phones running Mobian Linux

Signal is a popular open source, cross-platform messaging app with an emphasis on privacy and security thanks to end-to-end encryption for all text messages and voice or video calls. There are versions of Signal available for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux. But until recently folks who wanted to use Signal on a Linux phone […]

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Microsoft is pushing users to upgrade to Skype 8, will stop support Skype 7

Microsoft has released an updated version of Skype 8 for desktop users… and encouraging users to upgrade soon. Starting in September you won’t be able to use Skype 7 for desktop anymore. The company actually rolled out an updated design for its video, voice, and text chat app that was met with mixed reviews last […]

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Amazon Brings Alexa Calling To Android and iOS Devices

Drop In effectively turned Amazon’s Echo Show into a slick (if not somewhat creepy) video intercom. Echo and Echo Dot owners could get in on the action, too… at least the voice and instant message part of the equation. Now, Amazon has expanded its calling and messaging reach to Android and iOS device owners. The […]

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Google’s Allo chat app is coming to desktop/web

Google has a habit of launching new messaging apps. Sometimes it even keeps developing them. And it looks like the latest is coming to new places. The company launched the Allo messaging app last year, but it was only available for mobile devices running Android or iOS at the time. So while you could use […]

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Google Allo messaging app debuts to… mixed reviews and some confusion

If you’ve read a tech blog today, you may be aware that Google launched its new messaging app last night. It’s called Allo. It’s available for Android and iOS. And it seems a lot like WhatsApp… if that hugely popular messaging app had Google’s Assistant software baked in. Right now Allo is only available for […]