This piece covers the experience before this breaking news hit.
I reached out to Beeper to ask whats going on and will update you when I hear back.
I have been posing as a blue bubble from myGoogle Pixel 8for the past few days.
Beeper Mini brings blue bubbles to your green bubble phone.Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo
I was spoofing my blue bubble existence usingBeeper Mini, an Android app thatlaunchedthis week to much fanfare.
Beeper Mini almost simplifies it all.
The app is a bold start for the beginning of the end of iMessages proprietary nature.
iOS messages are on the left, and Beeper Mini on Android is on the right.Screenshot: Florence Ion / Gizmodo
The only drawback is that Beeper Mini does not improve Android users experience.
As I tweeted, Beeper Mini is experiencing an outage sending and receiving is malfunctioning right now.
With their announcement of RCS support, its clear that Apple knows they have a gaping hole here.
Galleries on Beeper Mini look just like they’re on iOS.Screenshot: Florence Ion / Gizmodo
Beeper Mini is here today and works great.
Why force iPhone users back to sending unencrypted SMS when they chat with friends on Android?
The Best Blue Bubble Solutionso far
Beeper Mini works excellently, though Im only four days in.
But that would be asignificant undertakingthat would also change how the iPhone functions.
Its not something that would happen overnight.
Beeper doesnt offer an annual bulk discount yet, but theresReddit talkthats somewhere in the pipeline.
I also tested it with theiPhone 15andiPhone 15 Pro Max.
Youll have to continue the conversation from there so that it gets registered with the servers.
But then its instantaneous.
I was struck by how synchronized it was with the iPhone review units scattered around my lab.
Message indicators came in simultaneously across the iPhone 15 Pro Max and the Pixel 8.
Its like they arent two competing platforms.
I was accidentally firing off green bubbles from Google Messages when I meant to send it through Beeper Mini.
It resulted in a disjointed message thread splayed across two apps.
The iPhone users were fine, however.
Im hesitant to move all my iPhone messengers into Beeper Mini.
My husband doesnt have Beeper Mini on his OnePlus machine.
Its a reminder of how nascent this is in the first place.
Beeper Mini is still very much in its early stages.
Unfortunately, Beeper Mini doesnt solve my problem of exhaustion from managing different messaging apps.
I suppose its the burden of living what was once a very open mobile operating system.
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