Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Messages is preparing new RCS labels for contacts. The app will soon display an RCS tag next to the names and numbers of contacts using RCS. In addition to the RCS label, Google Messages is also tweaking the contact list UI to differentiate RCS-enabled users by color. Google … Read more
While I was grabbing the peanut butter the other day, a sharp pain shot through some obscure tendons in my thumb, making me shriek. A preliminary Google revealed that I’d acquired the embarrassingly 21st-century ailment of “texting thumb”, also known as de Quervain’s tenosynovitis, which should be reserved for a 15-year-olds discovering TikTok, not a … Read more
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T is shutting down its email-to-text and text-to-email services on June 17, 2025. The feature lets users send texts via email and receive texts as emails using special AT&T addresses. While some found it useful, many are glad it’s going away, calling it a spam magnet that overstayed its … Read more
Starting today, Verizon satellite texting is rolling out to select Android smartphones, including the Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9 series. This means Verizon users can now send texts from remote locations without a traditional cellular network. The rollout will take place over the next two weeks. According to Joe Russo, EVP & President of … Read more
Google Messages is improving its message-deleting features You’ll soon be able to delete a message for everyone We now have screenshots showing how the feature works It’s not a great feeling, sending a text and then regretting it – instantly, the next morning, or any time in between – and Google Messages looks set to … Read more
One of the best mostly invisible updates in iOS 18 was Apple’s decision to finally implement the Rich Communications Services (RCS) communication protocol, something that is slowly helping to fix the generally miserable experience of texting non-iPhone users with an iPhone. The initial iOS 18 update brought RCS support to most major carriers in the … Read more
BARCELONA—Skylo has the smallest presence in the US satellite-messaging market of any company and has the toughest job: Instead of relying on satellites in low Earth orbit, its hardware resides on other companies’ spacecraft in geostationary Earth orbit, 22,000+ miles up. But in a conversation at MWC Wednesday afternoon, Skylo CEO Parthsarthi Trivedi charted a … Read more
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Earlier this month, T-Mobile started testing messaging via Starlink satellites with select Samsung users. The latest iOS 18.3 update brings the satellite texting feature to eligible iPhone users on T-Mobile. Interested users can sign up for the beta on T-Mobile’s website. In 2022, Apple partnered with Globalstar to enable … Read more
Major telco Telstra has signed a new deal with Elon Musk’s satellite network Starlink, allowing customers to send a text message from almost anywhere in Australia – including rural and regional dead zones. Under the deal announced on Thursday, Telstra customers will be able to use Musk’s low-earth orbit satellites to communicate with other users … Read more
Major telco Telstra has signed a new deal with Elon Musk’s satellite network Starlink, allowing customers to send a text message from almost anywhere in Australia – including rural and regional dead zones. Under the deal announced on Thursday, Telstra customers will be able to use Musk’s low-earth orbit satellites to communicate with other users … Read more