The time-honored way to trade digits with a fellow smartphone user is to send a simple “Hi it’s me!” text. Once that’s done, your new friend will have your number sitting in their text-message inbox, ...

Some Android phone users are wondering what is the blue dot that appears next to a person’s name in the contacts and on the messaging app mean and what is its significance. When a blue dot appears on ...

You can create a contact list, called a group, in the Contacts app on an Android phone to send messages to. This can be useful if you frequently want to create a text message to the same group of ...

While it may not have really taken off in the U.S., WhatsApp is easily one of the most popular ways to communicate across the world. It has more than two billion users worldwide and is the leading ...

Dialer apps and contacts apps are a bit of a niche market. In most cases, the stock dialer and contacts apps are more than good enough. Maybe you want something a little different, though. We ...

Anu is a Features author at Android Police. You'll find her writing in-depth pieces about automation tools, productivity apps, and explainers. Before joining AP, she used to write for prominent tech ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. So, the big news this week is that Apple and Google have launched ...