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 ...

Beeper Mini brings iMessage to Android without the need to sign in with an Apple ID or run iMessage on a server. All you need is your phone number and a Google sign-in to get started. After a 7-day ...

Beeper Mini reverse engineered iMessage to send blue texts like an iPhone, but Apple blocked it, citing security and privacy concerns. Security and privacy concerns caused Apple to block messaging ...

The impossible has happened. Beeper set out to unify chat platforms into a single bundle, but has ended up solving the iMessage-on-Android conundrum in a terrific fashion. In fact, it has even fixed ...

Beeper Mini launched today, and it’s genuinely game-changing. Over the years, we’ve all seen many approaches to bringing iMessage to Android. It’s even more game-changing when you realize how this was ...

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A few weeks ago, an app called Nothing Chats arrived on the scene with a whole lot of buzz around it. The key selling point was iMessage on Android, and that, too, with blue bubbles. No more green ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

Update 12/11/23: Beeper Mini once again works to send iMessages, as announced in a Beeper blog post. Phone number registration does not work yet (they’re working on it) so users have to log in to an ...

In the past week, I have sent an iMessage to one friend from a command-line Python app and to another from a Pixel 3 Android phone. Sending an iMessage without an Apple device isn’t entirely new, but ...