Android now has its own answer to Apple’s AirDrop, and it finally works across the iPhone divide as well as between laptops ...

Android’s multitasking story is finally catching up with the hardware it runs on, and the next wave of changes looks less ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the ...

Messaging app Freedom Chat has fixed a pair of security flaws: one that allowed a security researcher to guess registered users’ phone numbers, and another that exposed user-set PINs to others on the ...

Emergency calls can be stressful, and in some instances, it's easier to show than tell what’s going wrong. That’s why Apple shipped an emergency live-video option with iOS 18 last year, and why Google ...

In addition to Android 16 QPR2, Google today is rolling out a pair of updates to the Messages (group chat warnings) and Phone (Urgent call reasons) apps. As we previously spotted, the Phone by Google ...

Google is following through on its pledge to split Android versions into more frequent updates. We already had one Android 16 release this year, and now it’s time for the second. The new version is ...

Explore top Android phones designed for former iPhone users, offering a seamless switch experience, familiar features, and the best iPhone alternatives of 2026. Pixabay, krapalm As the smartphone ...

It’s not just the Twitter brand name that is no more – direct messages are also being replaced by X Chat. The new private messaging feature finally brings end-to ...

Have you been using an old Android smartphone with Android Auto in your car? If yes, now would be a good time to check the version of Android that the phone is running. More than a year ago — in July ...

Pixel phones can now warn you about potential scams when you get notifications from chat apps. You’ll see a “Likely scam” alert on notifications for messages that seem suspicious. Scam detection in ...