When you buy a Samsung Galaxy phone, you're not just getting the standard, stock Android experience as far as software goes: ...

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 ...

Melissa Sarnowski has been a game writer for over two years. While she's willing to dig into any game for an article, she heavily focuses on The Legend of Zelda, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, and The ...

Android phones now let you personalize how you appear on a call with the Calling Card feature in the Google Phone app. Instead of a basic contact photo, you can create a full screen visual card that ...

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Android 17 Beta 1 is rolling out to Google Google Pixel 6 and newer devices. If you are on Android 16 beta, update via Settings > System > Software Update. Stable ...

Just three days ago, Google confirmed that Android 17 Beta 1 is coming, and now it’s here. We weren’t expecting the first beta to be released so quickly, but it’s here with improvements to privacy, ...

If you already know what bloatware is and why it’s annoying, you probably also know the usual fixes. I recently switched to a simpler way to debloat my Android phone with Canta, which runs directly on ...

From swirling updates to confusing convergence and more than a few wacky experiments, 2026 is looking to be anything but uneventful for Google's Android platform. It’s hard to believe, but here we be ...

I've been in a particularly "back everything up for the sake of it" mood lately, and the latest target of my fixation is messages. It's been several generations of Android flagships since I archived ...