With plenty of new features and a brand-new rollout strategy, Google changed quite a lot of things around Android in 2025.

Your phone choice is similar to the PC options available between the macOS and Windows operating systems. Like the Mac, Apple's ecosystem has just one hardware vendor, albeit a top-tier one. Like ...

Google I/O 2025 will be livestreaming next week, and software developers from Google are expected to unveil Android 16, which is slated to come out before the summer. The upcoming Android software ...

Google unveiled the biggest update to its Android mobile operating system in years, weeks before its biggest competitor in the space, Apple, is expected to give a preview of its overhauled iPhone ...

Google is not Android, and Android is not Google. Step forward, Murena, which leverages the open-source Android project to ...

Google's plans for its Android phone software have been clear: Grow the role of its Gemini AI assistant to handle more tasks and make it integral to most people's activities. The company's strategy ...

The new Jolla Phone runs an alternative to Android and iOS, and it turns out many readers are interested in this mobile ...

More than 30% of Android phones still run Android 12 or older. That’s bad enough. But OEMs take time to deploy these fixes, ...

Google’s new Sensitive App Protection feature for Android Automotive lets you PIN-lock specific apps to hide them from passengers.

CNET spoke with Google's Sameer Samat and Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian about why they're combining a phone and laptop OS and how they'll do it. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming ...