Free text apps offer different features than the SMS texting app built into your iPhone or Android phone.

Rahul Naskar has years of experience writing news and features related to Android, phones, and apps. Outside the tech world, he follows global events and developments shaping the world of geopolitics.

Texting between iPhones and Android devices can be miserable. A new iOS setting stands to make it less painful. Apple’s iOS ...

Given how competent and powerful smartphones have become, it is easy to take for granted essential tasks they handle, like voice calling or text messaging. In the event of an internet outage, the SMS ...

If you send a text from an iPhone to another iPhone, most of the time that text is blue. If you send a text from an iPhone to an Android phone, that text is green. On its surface, it may seem like no ...

Other than snapping selfies and mindlessly scrolling on social media, one thing you mainly do on your phone is texting. It is, after all, among the easiest ways to communicate, especially when you're ...

When you hang around Android long enough, you start to sense a persistent three-step pattern: A promising new system-level feature comes along with a splashy on-stage demo and availability ...

The FBI's guidelines recommended that users not send texts from iPhone to Android or vice versa because they were not securely encrypted. However, messages sent from iPhone to iPhone or Android to ...