Although SMS remains the only way to be sure of reaching anyone with a mobile number, in any country, very few apps currently support it. That’s partly due to the age of the protocol, and partly to ...

The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their own ...

SMS may not be nearly as popular as it used to be, but many people still use it. It’s still quite essential in a number of ways, and there’s a reason why it survived for so long. In some regions, it’s ...