In the early days, dumb phones were only able to carry between a few hundred kilobytes to a few megabytes of storage space. Then, when the first Android phone, the HTC Dream, launched in 2008, it ...

Short Message Service (SMS) has been a staple of text messaging since the flip phone, but it may be time to let it evolve. SMS was created in 1992, back when cellphones could be mistaken for bricks.

SMS Backup and Restore is still one of the best for backing up Android text messages—and in this guide, I'll also walk you through how to back up archives for secondary messaging apps, ...

This is critical because U.S. federal agencies repeatedly warn that texting without the protection of end-to-end encryption ...

The French and U.K. equivalents to the U.S. government’s cyber defense agency have issued new advice for users. “Deactivate ...

The first SMS was sent in 1992, when an engineer of an IT service company based in the U.K. sent it to his colleague to wish him a Merry Christmas. One year later, Finnish company Nokia released the ...

Google Messages may not be the best messaging app in every scenario, but it offers a plethora of features, enough to get the ...

If Google indeed wants to make it optional, Google Messages users will likely be able to control the messaging behavior by ...