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There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices.

• Beeper Mini bypasses traditional iMessage hacks by directly sending iMessages from Android devices.

• The app has been praised for its smooth functionality, sending messages seamlessly between Android and iPhone users.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (42 children)

It's not the color of the bubble. It's the downgraded chat experience: grainy pictures, pixelated videos, and no E2EE.

Our kid was at a sleepover, recently. We got a video of all the kids playing together, but because it wasn't iPhone to iPhone the video was a low resolution pixelated mess.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Yeah, my sister-in-law has an iPhone and all of my wife's pics and videos turn to garbage in transit. For the longest my SIL just thought Android cameras were terrible and it locked her in to iPhones at upgrade time - which is exactly what Apple intended.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

That's the carrier requiring really rediculously small sizes for MMS.

If I remember correctly AT&T is still limiting videos to 2MB tops. Which is crazy.

[–] Salix 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

T-Mobile has a 1MB limit for MMS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right, there you go.

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