Sometimes it's easier to type a long text on a real keyboard instead of a touchscreen. Android doesn't have it built-in, but you can view your texts on a PC.

Here’s how to transfer text messages from your iOS device to your computer: Connect your iPhone to your computer and open iExplorer. Click on the Data tab and then the Messages button.

Sometimes it's easier to type a long text on a real keyboard instead of a touchscreen. Android doesn't have it built-in, but you can view your texts on a PC.

With an Android phone, you can keep backups of text messages so that you'll never lose them should something happen with your phone.

There are text messages you don’t want to lose. You can back them up using your phone’s native apps or go with a third-party option.

There are text messages you don’t want to lose. You can back them up using your phone’s native apps or go with a third-party option.

You need to use Android Messages for Web to text through your laptop. Here's how Google's answer to iMessages for typing texts on your laptop will save you time.

From our testing, Phone Link seems to do a decent job of keeping messages in sync between the two devices, so if you read a message on your PC, it gets marked as “read” on your phone and vice ...

Although mysms's compatibililty with both Android and iPhone is appealing, its PC component is awkward.

Pinger's nifty Textfree Web service makes it a snap to text from the comfort and convenience of your keyboard.