Nothing Chats

Nothing Chats partner Sunbird has informed users that it has temporarily shut down its messaging platform, following reports of several security issues affecting the service. The company was recently in the news after it emerged as the partner for smartphone maker Nothing's iMessage chat app for Android. Users of the app that promises access to chats from different platforms including WhatsApp, Instagram, and iMessage on the same app, have received a message stating that the company would provide…

Last week was certainly exciting for the prospect of green and blue bubbles finding peace and harmony in the chat realm, though that excitement was a bit premature in Nothing’s case. Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerNothing, the company behind the Android-based Nothing Phone, announced Nothing Chats, an app that could send and receive iMessage-style messages through the same servers as Apple users. Then, just as quickly as it launched, to particularly rave fanfare, it was pulled from the…

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends What was supposed to be an iMessage redeemer for Android smartphone users has quickly been consumed in a chaos of security and utter negligence. Merely days after the Nothing Chats app was removed from the Play Store, the tech at its foundation provided by Sunbird is also taking an unspecified leave, intensifying suspicions of something being seriously wrong. Sunbird appeared on our radar late last year, promising blue bubbles for Android-to-iPhone messages. It also promised to bundle…

Nothing launched the Nothing Chats messaging platform last week to dismantle messaging barriers between Android and iOS devices in collaboration with Sunbird. The messaging app allows Nothing Phone 2 users to send and receive texts via iMessage enabling messages to appear as blue bubbles on iMessage. It also supports texting over the RCS protocol to other Android phones, along with SMS and MMS. However, since its announcement, a lot of users have voiced concerns over the security and privacy issues of the service. Now,…

Image Source : FILE Nothing Chats beta pulled off from the Google Play Store Nothing, a global consumer electronics brand has recently removed its ‘Nothing Chats’ beta app. The new Apple iMessage-compatible app which got removed from the Play Store was powered by the Sunbird messaging platform and the main reason was said to be privacy concerns. In an official…

In a swift move, Nothing Chats, the messaging app launched by Nothing earlier this week, has been yanked from the Google Play Store. Officially, the reason cited is "several bugs" that require fixing before a relaunch- an action accompanied by an unspecified waiting period. However, emerging evidence pointed put by 9to5Google and others suggests that the withdrawal may be more about glaring security flaws than mere bugs.Sunbird's Deceptive ClaimsA meticulous technical examination conducted by Rida F'kih from Texts.com,…

Andy Boxall / Digital Trends Earlier this week, Nothing did the unexpected and launched the “Nothing Chats” app for the Nothing Phone 2. The premise? Let anyone with a Nothing Phone 2 send and receive texts via iMessage. Nothing partnered with Sunbird to make Nothing Chats work, with Nothing essentially using Sunbird’s own messaging tech to bring iMessage to Android. It was a bold idea … but one that was short-lived. That’s because Nothing Chats is already dead (for the time being) due to a shocking number of…

RCS on iPhones: what does it meanBefore we get to that, let’s talk about how RCS in iPhones makes a huge difference for cross-platform messaging. RCS basically turns your simple SMS/MMS messaging experience into a “rich” one with smart features such as sharing full-res photos and videos, read receipts, and more.It’s something like WhatsApp but on your regular messaging app. Google Messages already supports this, and it’s been wanting Apple to do adopt it as well for iMessage.Soon iPhone and Android users will be able to…

Nothing Nothing is trying to bridge the great blue/green bubble divide for Android users of iMessage. This is not a personal crusade to shatter walls and open windows, as much as Nothing CEO Carl Pei would want you to believe that. Instead, Nothing is piggybacking on tech created by New York-based startup Sunbird.  Technically, the Sunbird app can be installed on any Android phone and it features a blue bubble for all iMessage text exchanges involving an Android phone. No more green bubble shame that could get you…