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Android 11 Bubbles Coming to Google Messages Really Soon

Kellen June 12, 2020 21

Bubbles, one of the bigger features coming to Android 11, haven't had the best start in the Android 11 beta because there are almost no apps that support them. Facebook Messenger does, but Google's own Messages does not yet. That should change over the next...

T-Mobile and Google Team Up to Make RCS Work Better Between Carriers

Kellen May 26, 2020 80

I'm starting to get the sense that RCS might finally be taking off after all these years. Thanks to carriers initially not wanting to play nicely with Google for the messaging service, there was slowness to adopt, but then Google said, "To hell with you all,"...

RCS End-to-End Encryption Hinted at in Internal Google Messages Build

Kellen May 25, 2020 5

For Google Messages to continue to take steps towards matching Apple's iMessage in features, its biggest need is arguably in the private security department. We're talking end-to-end encryption over messages, which Google has yet to include. According to an...

iMessage-Like Reactions Start Showing Up on Google’s Messages App

Kellen May 13, 2020

The dream of so many Android users is to finally have a messaging app that can rival Apple's iMessage. There aren't many that come close, but Google is certainly doing its best to give us that with Messages, thanks to RCS and its set of "Chat" features....

Google Brings Together All of Its Messaging Apps Under One Unified…Team

Kellen May 7, 2020

Let's just get this out of the way before we get too deep here - Google did not just launch or announce a single unified messaging app that all will love and use going forward. Today, though, Google has announced that it now has a leader and unified team to...

Google Might Implement iMessage’s Text Reactions

Kellen March 6, 2020

Receiving a "Liked" or "Thumbs up" text from a person you are having a conversation with will never not be weird. You know that person is a iPhone user, is on iMessage, and had just initiated one of iMessage's reactions to your text, only it was supposed to...

Report: Google is Making Some Sort of Unified Communications App

Kellen January 28, 2020

Blackberry used to have this unified inbox service or app that let you combine communications from a variety of services. It was super handy as a catch-all location for all of the notifications that came from messaging or email apps. According to a new report,...

Google Starts Testing New Bubbles in Messages

Kellen December 27, 2019

Part of the initial feature set of Android 10, when Google first introduced it as Android Q earlier in the year, was a feature called Bubbles. Bubbles aren't a new concept to Android, but would be a pretty big change to how notifications and messages work...