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Four operating systems: One device. How the Chromebook will become the universal laptop.
Soon, you'll be able to run not just Chrome OS, Android, and Linux on your Chromebook but Windows applications as well. Here's how and what that will mean for your company's PCs and laptops.
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The history of Android: The evolution of the biggest mobile OS in the world
Sometimes it feels like we’ve been running Google’s mobile OS on our Android devices forever. However, it’s actually been just over a decade since the first official Android phone hit store shelves. The key decision in Android history was Google’s commitment to make Android an open-source operating system. That allowed it to become highly popular with third-party phone makers. Just a few years after the launch of Android 1.0, smartphones powered by the new OS were everywhere.
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Fast, personalized and private by design on all platforms: introducing a new Firefox for Android experience
Firefox for Android has been overhauled to the core and is now available with many new features mobile users will love. Try it out today!
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Blackberry phones are back as new 5G Android device announced for 2021
Startup OnwardMobility will be making the device, with a new keyboard designed in-house
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How to turn off Android TV's homescreen ads, 'staff picks'
Google is rolling out a new Android TV update that dumps homescreen ads on your device including some "Staff Picks." Here's how to fend that off, for now.
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5 new things your Android phone can do
We are launching five new features on your Android phone for added safety, restful sleep and more.
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Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A all at once
Do you want the cheap one now or 5G later?
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Chinese-made drone app in Google Play spooks security researchers
The Android version of DJI Go 4—an app that lets users control drones—has until recently been covertly collecting sensitive user data and can download and execute code of the developers’ choice, researchers said in two reports that question the security and trustworthiness of a program with more than 1 million Google Play downloads.
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Phone makers are breaking your favorite apps with reckless changes to Android's power optimization features
Power management on Android has always been a problem. Though Google has done what it can over the years to improve battery life (successfully, I'd
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Dark Sky alternatives for Android weather watchers
If you’re a weather geek, you probably already know that Dark Sky, one of the most popular weather apps around, has been acquired by Apple and is probably being integrated into iOS 14. As a result, anyone who uses an Android device and has the Dark Sky app is going to lose access on July 1st. In addition, a variety of other apps (some not even weather-related) will lose access to the Dark Sky API.
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Microsoft could be hammering Android 11 into shape for its dual-screen Surface Duo
Another Duo rumor surfaces
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Trump Games | Make Games Great Again
Free humoristic games based on Donald Trump as theme. The games can be found on Google Play Store. Flappy Trump, Trump's Solitaire, Trump Invader, Pop up Trump, and more...
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Don't throw your old Android phone in the trash, repurpose it!
There are several things that you can do with a phone that you're no longer using. Whether you donate, sell, or recycle the it, just about anything is better than throwing a smartphone and its hazardous materials in the trash. In this article you'll find some of our top suggestions for repurposing your old Android phone, followed by steps and guidelines on how to carry out those suggestions.
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Adobe's Photoshop Camera now publicly available on Android
Adobe's Photoshop Camera app is now available publicly on both iOS and Android following beta testing.
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Google Stadia cloud games will now run on any modern Android phone
The gaming service still has a lot of limitations, but it’s free to try.
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The good, the bad, and the ugly: Every Android 10 skin tested
Android 10 is available in lots of flavors, with manufacturers adding their own unique customizations to Google's operating system. That's why you won't find many similarities between Samsung's One UI and Xiaomi's MIUI even though both share the same base platform. Here's how Android 10 is on Pixel phones, One UI, OxygenOS, MIUI, and ColorOS.
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Why this photo is bricking some Android phones
An atmospheric landscape photograph set as wallpaper seems to confuse the handsets.
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Android Mirroring App 'Scrcpy' Just Added a Bunch of New Features
If you read this blog regularly enough you’ll be familiar with scrcpy, an ace root-free way to mirror your Android smartphone on your Ubuntu desktop and interact with it. Scrcpy is free, it’s open source, it’s awesome. Oh yeah, and it’s updated regularly! Which is what this post is about: telling you what’s new and notable in the latest release, scrcpy 1.14 — so let’s get to it!
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Is Google finally managing its messaging mess?
Encryption and interoperation: finally and finally again
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The very first Android phone probably isn't what you'd expect—and I bought one
The very first Android phone, it has been long established, was the HTC G1/Dream. Or at least that's the conventional wisdom. While the G1 was the
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