Android is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and currently developed by Google. With a user interface based on direct manipulation, Android is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, with specialized user interfaces for televisions (Android TV), cars (Android Auto), and wrist watches (Android Wear). Android is the most popular mobile OS. As of 2013, Android devices sell more than Windows, iOS, and Mac OS devices combined.
Google and the mobile carriers have long been at odds over mobile payments, but faced with the runaway success of Apple Pay, the two rivals have become friends. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile… Read more »
Ahead of Mobile World Congress, where Samsung, HTC, and other handset makers are planning to unveil their high-end devices for 2015, LG has bolstered its lineup with four new devices –… Read more »
Despite the fact that both Google’s and Apple’s smartwatches are designed only to work with their own respective mobile platforms, you can get notifications from an iPhone on an Android Wear… Read more »
Next month will be the one-year anniversary of Google’s smartwatch platform introduction. And the month after that will see the Apple Watch ship to its first buyers. While smartwatches have been… Read more »
If you’re in a hands-free situation and need to control certain system functions of your Android 5.0 handset by voice, you can now do that. Android Police noticed on Friday that… Read more »
Don’t look now, but there may be discontent between Google and one of its key Android partners: again. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported growing tensions between Samsung and Google… Read more »
Although the Google Nexus 6 is a fairly universal phone that works on all major U.S. carriers, those who use it on T-Mobile will get some custom features, including support for… Read more »
There are lot of great professionally-made videos for kids on YouTube buried in an avalanche of decidedly inappropriate content. Soon, parents won’t have to filter the millions of videos themselves: On Monday,… Read more »
That radical redesign of email that Google introduced in October can now be used in more places. You’ll still need an invite to use Inbox, but once you have it, you use… Read more »
It looks as though on Tuesday at 7am PT next week Pebble will announce…. something. I’m basing that the not very subtle countdown ticker currently on Pebble’s home page. Based on… Read more »