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Samsung is finally making good on its promise to debut a foldable phone. Well, sort of. At the Samsung Developer Conference today, Samsung’s Justin Denison got on stage to announce the Infinity Flex display. This flexible OLED technology will launch in 2019 as part of a still unnamed phone. Denison …

Smartphones have all looked similar for the last decade, but we may be on the verge of another major shift. At the Android Developer Summit today, the company announced native platform support for a class of devices it calls “foldables.” As you can probably guess, that means devices with foldable …

You’ll find Android running on phones, tablets, cars, and even appliances. Strangely, it’s rare to find Google’s ubiquitous operating system on cameras. There have been a handful of cameras with Android, but they were expensive and not as good at taking pictures as similarly priced equipment. Now, Chinese camera manufacturer …

  Google has always struggled with the so-called fragmentation of the Android platform, but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming the most popular computing platform on the planet. Last year, Google unveiled a new Android framework called Project Treble that was supposed to make updates faster. Now that a new …

When it concerns security updates, Android is a genuine mess. Even after Google timely present security spots for its Android platform, a huge part of the Android environment stays exposed to hackers due to the fact that device makers do not provide patches routinely and on a timely basis to …

The Google Play Store is teeming with choices, both excellent and horrible. These are the very best Android apps for your phone or tablet. When we choose apps to include in our roundups, we’re after those that primarily excel in two areas: function and design. A functional app is either …

We’ve been promised a foldable phone for years, and Samsung is finally promising one in the not-too-distant future. However, a company you’ve probably never heard of has beaten Samsung to the punch. Royole just announced a FlexPai, a 7.8-inch foldable tablet-phone hybrid. The company has shown off working units, but …

OnePlus has made a name for itself among Android enthusiasts by launching inexpensive phones with cutting-edge specs, but that’ll only get you so far. With the OnePlus 6T, the company is finally getting in bed with US carriers. The 6T goes on sale today at T-Mobile and online as an …

Google’s line of Pixel phones is known mostly for what they take away. They proudly ship with stock Android rather than the “optimized” variants that companies like Samsung ship. They receive regular security updates to ensure fewer long-lasting security bugs, though Google has taken steps to improve the update situation …

Most Android phones get updates, but they don’t get very many of them. This has been an issue even for very expensive and popular phones, which quickly end up with old security patches that can’t protect you from every online threat. Google is reportedly rolling out a new Android licensing …