In the world of Android smartphones the open nature of rooting the device and flashing custom firmware is almost as important as the customization capabilities that are available to all users normally ...

Android One devices are the fruit of Google’s efforts to bring a better Android smartphone experience to emerging markets, while still offering those devices at an affordable cost to the consumer.

The HTC Butterfly 2 is a phone forever trapped in a nightmarish puberty of HTC industrial design. It uses high-end specifications like a 1080p screen and a Snapdragon 801 processor, but its plastic ...

One of the things that makes Google’s Nexus phones different from most Android devices on the market is that they tend to be developer-friendly. Unlocking the bootloader is usually as trivial as ...

Among the ways to root an Android phone, Magisk is considered the best. It is a systemless method, meaning it does not ...

OnePlus has really stepped into the limelight as the OEM for tinkerers following the demise of the Nexus program. One of the few manufacturers to let you keep your warranty if you unlock the ...

Sometimes, things go wrong, making your device's hardware and software experience less than ideal. It may be related to a change you made or a newly installed system update that is causing glitches.

The LineageOS development team posted a blog post today with a ton of news and updates. The LineageOS team has a new director, there’s a new Lineage Recovery, and new devices now support LineageOS ...

If you’ve sniffed around blogs or articles about mobile phones, you’ve probably seen mention of “custom ROMs” or “mods.” What do they do for a phone? As with rooting, a ton of information is out there ...

Michael is a born Texan and a former graphic designer. He's been covering technology in general and Android in particular since 2011. His interests include folk music, football, science fiction, and ...

A bootable program on an Android flash memory partition that is used to perform a factory reset or restore the original OS version. In order to install a different OS version (a different ROM), the ...

Samsung’s first smartwatch may have shipped with Google’s Android Wear software, but every smartwatch the company has released since then has been powered by the Linux-based Tizen operating system.