One great feature of iMessage is that typing bubbles appear when someone you’re texting with is in the process of responding to your text. Not everyone, however, wants to indicate that they’re ...

An update to RCS is about to offer more features to messages that travel between Apple and Android phones—though blue and ...

Any phone that supports SMS, even old cellphones, can communicate with iPhones and appear in green bubbles. iPhones use Apple's iMessage system and display a blue bubble around the text.

A new app called Beeper changes that by enabling you to use iMessage on Android and appear to others as a blue bubble user. It's not just about the bubble, of course. It's about the ability to use ...