This is how "texts" were sent before the flux capacitor made Skynet possible. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Did you know you can send regular old green-bubble SMS (and MMS) messages from your iPad ...

With smartphones getting more advanced all the time, it’s sometimes easy to forget that they’re designed for making calls and sending messages, and everything else is just an added extra. In this ...

If you got a Google Home Mini to go with your Android phone this Christmas, one of the first things you probably asked it to do was send a text. But instead of asking ...

An SMS (Short Message Service) is a feature of mobile phones that enables you to send text messages to other people. While free messaging services offered by smartphones support a cheaper and less ...

Amazon's Alexa just gained another useful new trick: It can now send text messages... but only if you have an Android phone. These are real text messages sent through your Android phone to other ...

There might be times where you cannot send an iMessage on your iPhone and it just keeps on coming back as SMS texts. This annoying bug for users has a simple solution. Reverting to encrypted SMS is ...

Want to send someone a message? You can do that through your Amazon Echo. The Alexa assistant supports sending and receiving voice and in-app messages on Android and iOS and SMS messages on Android.

Alexa now lets you send text messages with your voice… so long as you use Android. Here's how to set it up. Taylor Martin has covered technology online for over six years. He has reviewed smartphones ...

Several SMS calendar services will send you reminders of dates and events you enter. These can be useful if you have an older phone without a full-featured calendar function or if you want to send a ...