It also reveals a potential Pixel Tablet release date.

The company's Pixel phone responds to voice commands, and sometimes that can have inadvertent effects.

Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops that they could send home with their students. Quite a few turned to Chromebooks. Three years later, the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund concludes in a new report called Chromebook Churn that many of these batches are already beginning to break. That’s potentially costing districts money; PIRG estimates that “doubling the lifespan of Chromebooks could result in $1.8 billion in savings for taxpayers.” It also creates quite a bit of e-waste.

Design quirks, limited parts, and other ways Chromebooks frustrate repairs.

Google will launch its first foldable smartphone sometime in June, challenging Samsung’s market-leading foldable phone business, according to internal communications viewed by CNBC. It plans to announce the device at its annual developer conference, Google I/O, on May 10.

The latest Google Pixel 7a leak reveals a new sky blue color option for the unannounced budget phone launching later this year.

Google plans to restrict apps that offer loan to individuals from accessing sensitive user data such as photos, videos and contacts.

For a good chunk of the 13 years that we’ve been chatting about Android and smartphones around here, we talked about the microSD card, the best versions of them, and where you could find them at the lowest prices. MicroSD cards were a big, big deal for so long because you could expand the storage of your phone for a reasonable price and then move to another phone easily by bringing that card with you.

Fast-growing e-commerce app Pinduoduo had an EvilParcel stow-away.

Google has started working to harden the security of Android at the firmware level, a component of the software stack that interacts directly with the various processors of a system on a chip (SoC). The plan is to expand the security in Android devices beyond the operating system, which runs on a multi-core CPU, to the other processors on the SoC for dedicated tasks like cellular communication, media processing, or security modules.

Google is urging owners of certain Android phones to take urgent action to protect themselves from critical vulnerabilities that give skilled hackers the ability to surreptitiously compromise their devices by making a specially crafted call to their number. It’s not clear if all actions urged are even possible, however, and even if they are, the measures will neuter devices of most voice-calling capabilities.

Amid isolating sanctions, a Russian tech giant plans to launch new Android phones and tablets. But experts are skeptical the company can pull it off.

Gen Z is key to Apple’s dominance, according to a new report – which says that fear of being “the green bubble guy”‘ in group chats is a key motivation. The report also underlines the importance the iPhone plays in hooking people into the Apple ecosystem, spurring sales of AirPods, iPads, and Apple Watches …

Personalized Android ads but without invasive tracking.

App Store and Play Store are filled with dubious apps ChatGPT apps that are looking to charge people for non-existing features.

A new partnership between the satellite phone firm Iridium and chip giant Qualcomm will bring satellite connectivity to premium Android smartphones later in the year. It means that in places where there is no mobile coverage, handsets can connect with passing satellites to send and receive messages.

We’ve stumbled upon a rather interesting app. This app is called NotiGuy, and it essentially turns your phone’s hole punch into a button. That’s not its only functionality, but it is its most interesting aspect.

It’s time to start ruthlessly deleting your pics.

Here’s what to do if it happens to you.

Android 14 release date and list of phones on Samsung, Motorola, Sony, Xiaomi, Realme, OnePlus & all other OEMs + Android 14 download.