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Phone Link allows you to send and receive Apple Messages on your PC.

It’s suddenly headline news. A serious iMessage warning has just been issued for Apple’s 1.5 billion iPhone users. So serious, in fact, that it could be reason enough to quit the app and switch to ...

A new texting app claims to bring Apple's iMessage system to an Android phone, but you'll want to pay close attention to how it works, as it's certainly not sanctioned by the iPhone-maker. Nothing ...

Over the past several weeks, iMessage for Android has been a big topic of discussion and, for many, it comes back to why Android users seem to want iMessage so much. Personally, I don’t. iMessage for ...

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 ...

Apple's walled garden of software and hardware products is what makes it extremely strenuous to try to enjoy devices and services out of this bubble. iMessage is a great example of a service that has ...

This has been a huge week for iMessage—in a very strange way; has this latest news finally given Apple’s iPhone users a reason to quit the green-bubbles/blue ...

A friend of mine had been using Beeper’s iMessage-for-Android app, Beeper Mini to keep up on group chats where she was the only Android user. It worked great until last Friday, when it didn’t work at ...