OnePlus is poisoning its phones with Facebook bloatware

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OnePlus is preloading its phones with Facebook bloatware

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Twitter gets around to patching Android app security hole 22 months later

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You can now follow people on Google Maps, the company's newest social network

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OnePlus accidentally exposes customer information

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Nvidia reportedly interested in acquiring ARM

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Google Maps rolls out directions centered on docked bikeshare journeys

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Every 5G city and region for every major carrier in the US

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Someone at Google forgot to renew a blogspot domain, still offline a week later

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Android 10 has been the most quickly adopted Android update ever

Critics of Android are always quick to point out its very real fragmentation issue, and how long it takes for major version updates to land across the | Continue reading


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JioChat is a WhatsApp clone from the maker of the popular Zoom knockoff

India’s biggest telecom operator Reliance Jio got richer by billions of dollars in the last couple of months with funds coming from left, right, and | Continue reading


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WarnerMedia, and its parent company AT&T, is not the best with branding. There were once three individual HBO apps, each catering to a specific use | Continue reading


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DuckDuckGo coming back online in India following country-wide block

Following the Indian ban of almost 60 Chinese apps including TikTok and Weibo, many people living in the country now report not being able to access the | Continue reading


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Ads are taking over Samsung's Galaxy smartphones – and it needs to stop

I have been using Samsung phones every day for almost 4 years. It was because Samsung had fantastic hardware paired with—depending on the | Continue reading


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Niantic announces Catan: World Explorers, 4th AR game from the studio

The Pokémon GO developer Niantic has just announced its fourth game, and yes, it's another augmented reality title. Shocking, I know. Since Niantic | Continue reading


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Nearby Sharing – Android's AirDrop competitor – is rolling out now in beta

Android's long-awaited Nearby Sharing may be just about ready. The feature, which allows you to share files between Android devices quickly, easily, and | Continue reading


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Google has declared open war against its videoconferencing rivals

Today, Google announced that Google Meet—the company's young videoconferencing platform—would imminently be bundled into the Gmail | Continue reading


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Google confirms experiment to remove full address from URL bar in Chrome

Last week, Google began testing a new change in Chrome Dev/Canary 85, that hides the full address of the current page, only showing the website domain | Continue reading


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AMP pages will now show original URL in Chrome's address bar (2019)

Google had its 2019 'AMP Conf' in Tokyo today, and announced a series of changes and new features coming to the company's Accelerated Mobile Pages | Continue reading


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Google has tried on and off for years to hide full URLs in Chrome's address bar, because apparently long web addresses are scary and evil. Despite the | Continue reading


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Google resumes senseless attack on URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 85

Google has tried on and off for years to hide full URLs in Chrome's address bar, because apparently long web addresses are scary and evil. Despite the | Continue reading


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WhatsApp fixes issue that exposed some users' phone numbers to search engines

Facebook went on a whack-a-mole expedition patching a security vulnerability that exposed thousands of WhatsApp users' phone numbers with a fairly simple | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 4 years ago

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 review: So close to the perfect 13-inch Chromebook

Lenovo might not have the greatest track record with its Windows-based laptops, but the company's Chromebooks have usually been excellent. The Lenovo C330 | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 4 years ago

Dropbox is working on its own password manager

Dropbox just unceremoniously dumped a brand new app on the Play Store with no fanfare or formal announcement. The new Dropbox Passwords app, according to | Continue reading


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Google Maps is making it easier to support small businesses with donations

As businesses navigate the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression, those that remain on the playing field are looking for any bit of help they | Continue reading


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MmWave 5G is facing more uncertainty than ever

Millimeter wave 5G hasn't had an easy time of it, as a technology. It's been panned for fickle connectivity, extremely limited coverage, and being too | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 4 years ago

Hiroshi Lockheimer Personally Apologizes for Podcast Addict Play Store Takedown

Another month, another wrongful removal from the Play Store. Google booted Podcast Addict off the Play Store because it references the novel coronavirus | Continue reading


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Microsoft To Do gets new features as Wunderlist goes offline

Today is finally the day Wunderlist dies, years after the Microsoft acquisition. Former users are encouraged to switch to Microsoft To Do, Wunderlist's | Continue reading


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Background notifications can be swiped away and minimized in Android 11 Dev

Android 11 Developer Preview 3 is once again changing the way notifications behave in the shade. Users are now allowed to swipe away all notifications, | Continue reading


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Google Home will finally let you adjust 'OK Google' listening sensitivity

There's still a little bit of magic every time you say "OK Google" and all your smart speakers, displays, and Android handsets line up to respond with a | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 4 years ago

Firefox's revamped browser gets support for five more extensions

Mozilla has been working on a rethought version of Firefox for Android for more than a year already, and things are starting to fall into place. In | Continue reading


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Sorry Huawei, the P40 Pro without Google apps is just too broken to live with

When Huawei launched the P30 Pro this time last year, we knew it could be the last for some time to ship with a full-fat version of Android. Huawei had | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 4 years ago

Google confirms Hangouts Meet is now Google Meet

In a blog post this morning, Google confirmed that Hangouts Meet is no longer a Hangouts product, and will simply be known as Google Meet. The post, which | Continue reading


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When Android Police raves about the iPad

We're all consuming a whole lot of content these days as we're stuck at home due to the spread of coronavirus. Most of us have plenty of screens to | Continue reading


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Sesame Street eBooks are free on Amazon, Google Play, and other platforms

Many companies and organizations are working to make movies, TV shows, books, and other entertainment free (or cheaper, at least) for folks stuck at home | Continue reading


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Zoom's Android app rating is being absolutely destroyed by coronavirus

While the corporate workforce and student exodus into home offices and living rooms around the globe has undoubtedly been a boon for videoconferencing | Continue reading


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G Suite users get free Hangouts Meet upgrades thru June in response to Covid-19

As the world stacks precaution after precaution on people's everyday lives to protect them from a potential novel coronavirus infection, Google has | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Cortana will soon be removed from the Microsoft Launcher

Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant never reached the market share needed to compete with Google Assistant and Alexa, and Microsoft is starting to scale | Continue reading


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Opt out your Wi-Fi network from Google's location services with an SSID tweak

When you use Google Maps or any other service that needs your location, your Android phone doesn't only rely on a GPS signal to quickly find your | Continue reading


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Privacy-focused messenger Signal is ready to go mainstream and take on WhatsApp

Signal is universally praised as one of the most simple-to-use secure messaging apps and is endorsed by security experts around the world. However, the | Continue reading


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Virtual Traffic jam using 99 smartphones

Many people rely on Google Maps not only for its navigation instructions but also for its ability to reroute them to avoid heavily congested areas. | Continue reading


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Ring's new setting to opt out of sharing video with others is rolling out now

Ring's smart home security hardware was cheap and popular. Turns out, it was also lacking basic security protections and leaking customer data, including | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Scroll subscription service removes ads from over 300 news sites

A new subscription service called Scroll launches today, offering advertisement-free access to over 300 sites, including The Atlantic, BuzzFeed News, | Continue reading


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Google Drive Is Now Available as a Progressive Web App

Chrome apps are almost dead, but the idea of apps via PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) lives on. Google Drive is the latest Google service to pick up a PWA, | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Opera reportedly has multiple predatory loan apps in the Play Store

It's no secret that Opera isn't doing so well in the era of Chrome dominance. According to a report published by Hindenburg Research, the company's losses | Continue reading


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Google releases 3 new experimental apps to help cut down your phone usage

Google has been on a roll recently with its digital wellbeing initiatives, releasing Family Link for parental controls, various apps to view and manage | Continue reading


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Opera reportedly has predatory loan apps with interest rates of up to 876%

It's no secret that Opera isn't doing so well in the era of Chrome dominance. According to a report published by Hindenburg Research, the company's losses | Continue reading


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Google is working to bring official Steam support to Chrome OS

Last week in Las Vegas while at CES, I spoke with Kan Liu, Director of Product Management for Google's Chrome OS. In a wide-ranging discussion about the | Continue reading


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