Google plans to limit its free unlimited Drive storage for WhatsApp backups

Guess it wasn't sustainable | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown

The folks behind the Pixel and Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift class-action lawsuits are looking into it | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Google is killing off its OnHub routers

More like OffHub, am I right? | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Google sets a new record, shuts down a service after only three months

Area 120's Museletter launched in September and it's already gone | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft Teams is the reason some Android users can't dial 911

And a fix is in the works | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Qualcomm has a solution for 'stingray' devices hijacking your cell connection

Modem-level features to detect them meet a new set of APIs for apps — coming soon | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Spotify is retiring Car View, and users are understandably pissed

*crowd booing* | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Some Pixel 6 units can apparently be unlocked with other people's fingerprints

Not only is the fingerprint scanner slow, it might also be insecure | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Amazon's latest gadget adds air quality monitoring to Alexa

In case you didn't have enough to worry about | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Google Chrome is working on combining tab groups and bookmarks; we don't like it

Google, what have you done to my bookmark bar? | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Google Home returns as a smart home platform that's exciting

The new name for Google's smart home developer platform and tools | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

New (and 1 WTF) Android games from the last week

Hundred Days, Tesla Force, Sugar game, plus more | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Nvidia's bid to buy ARM for $54B suffers yet another setback

It'll go through, Some Day™ | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Mars Ingenuity: 2,800 RPM Spin a Success, Flight 14 Delayed to Post Conjunction

A couple of months ago, I only had one USB-C hub, a simple Moshi adapter that I've owned since 2018 and that offers HDMI, USB-C and USB-A ports. But I got | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Signal beta opens payments in more countries

The latest beta version of the Signal Android app brings a few incremental design changes as well as an expansion to the privacy-focused payments it | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Google confirms it's the end of the road for Android Auto on phone screens

A couple of years ago, Google announced an all-new experience for drivers seeking to use their phones hands-free without endangering others. Dubbed | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Google bans 'sugar daddy' apps from Play Store

Today, Google published a handful of changes to its Play policies, and nestled among precise legalese refinements and some advertising ID tweaks is a | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

The Pixel 5 camera is so good that I've ditched my mirrorless cam when traveling

A few years ago, the only camera in my pocket/bag was my phone. Starting with the LG G2 and going up to the G3, G4, Galaxy S7 Edge, then Pixel 2 XL, all | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Brave Browser adds its own referral codes to some cryptocurrency trading sites

Brave Browser is undeniably a commercial product first, and a privacy-centric web browser second. While the browser does have quite a few improvements to | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Forget the Chromecast, Walmart Onn is cheaper and just as good

While smartphones regularly threaten to get more expensive every year, somehow the market for set-top boxes and HDMI dongles is dropping to seemingly | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Venmo to Start Charging Fees for Transfers

Venmo is a popular user-to-user money transfer service, which gained a lot of ground for being easy to use and essentially free. But ever since PayPal | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Google's confusing new Play Store redesign is showing up for more users

Google only recently redesigned the Play Store, getting rid of the hamburger menu and moving most of its menu entry to the account switcher in the top | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

'Hey Google, piss off the neighbors'

Do you recall when you were a kid, and there was nothing quite so fascinating as an old-fashioned spring doorstop? You know, the kind that goes | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Pixel could soon take time-lapses of the Milky Way

If you're not the one to tinker with camera settings, Google's Pixel phones are your best bet to get breathtaking shots of starry nights. Taking a photo | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

I've used Android for over 10 years – I'm switching to an iPhone 12 Mini

Over a long weekend in Los Angeles, I walked into the Apple Store in the Century City Mall to buy an iPhone... and swiftly walked right back out because I | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Google Discover will get a major theming overhaul in Android 12

Google is focusing on the visual experience of Android 12. The latest fruit of that endeavor is a bit of fresh paint on the Discover feed. Google Doodles, | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 2 years ago

Material You is the next evolution of Google's design language

Material Design made its debut at Google I/O back in 2014, with the goal of mimicking real-world objects to create more intuitive digital experiences. | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Google Phone will announce callers like you've got a fancy secretary

Google's Phone app may not be the most feature-rich dialer out there, but it's slowly getting better. It recently picked up the ability to automatically | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

WhatsApp tried to dunk on Telegram but failed miserably

WhatsApp's new privacy policy has received a lot of criticism and competitors haven't shied away from making the most of the opportunity. Signal recently | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy

WhatsApp didn't start the year on a very good note as it almost instantly entangled itself in a controversy when it rolled out a new privacy policy. While | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Someone called the cops on their own smart vacuum

Robot vacuums are, let's say, a net positive in most people's households — they do all the moving around to scrub the floors clean, you just have to | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Facebook bullies third-party apps Swipe and Simple Social into oblivion

Facebook's Android apps are rarely the best way to actually use Facebook on smartphones. That's why various third-party options have sprung up over the | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

It looks like Signal isn't as open source as you thought it was anymore

Signal has always been heralded as the alternative to WhatsApp and Co. due to its open-source nature, but it looks like the nonprofit behind the | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Google's killing off its legacy WiFi app

Google is known for overlapping multiple apps at once — just look at its messaging strategy. While both Google Wifi and Nest Wifi have a dedicated | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Pour one out: Dirty Unicorns ROM is done

Many older Android enthusiasts that dabbled in rooting or ROMing in the last decade may nostalgically remember Dirty Unicorns. Sadly, after today, all | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

The EU may be looking into breaking end-to-end encrypted chats

The EU is often at the forefront of consumer protection when it comes to privacy laws like the GDPR. But now it looks like the Council of the European | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

After all the drama, Terraria is coming to Stadia later this month

Terraria creator Andrew Spinks had a high-profile tiff with Google last month, citing a familiar problem: Google unexpectedly locking a personal account. | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

The life and death of Hangouts: A Google tragedy

The transition from Hangouts to Google Chat is now happening in earnest, with many even reporting that their group conversations have moved between the | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

New Zeiss camera runs Android and costs $6k

Zeiss may partner with Nokia now, but the photography company still makes standalone cameras of its own. The Android-powered ZX1 was first announced back | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Android's Airdrop-like Nearby Share is starting to let you share apps, too

Google's Nearby Share feature will soon let you transfer apps via the Play Store, rolling out over the coming weeks. | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Google Play Pass app with over 10M installs has been outed as malware

Google's reign over the Play Store often feels arbitrary, with legitimate apps disappearing for bogus reasons like out-of-context words or images while | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Chrome 88 rolls out dino-themed QR codes on Android and desktop

We've known about Google Chrome's quick page-sharing through dino-themed QR codes since 2019. After an initial release in Canary and more development, the | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Google pulls federated chat app Element from the Play Store

Element is a popular client for the federated chat protocol Matrix, and we highlighted it in our roundup of the best open-source alternatives to Google | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Google is rolling out grid view and tab groups for Chrome on Android

It's been a while since Chrome for desktop introduced support for tab groups. The feature helped bring order to chaos for those who had a habit of keeping | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Signal Is Down

The popularity of the Signal messaging service has been exploding in the last few weeks, in large part due to concerns surrounding the recent changes to | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

Google's Fitbit acquisition faces a new setback from the outback

Google received good news from the European Commission earlier this week, as its acquisition of health tracking wearable company Fitbit was approved | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

US may block Xiaomi from American imports and investment

The Trump administration is dubbing Xiaomi a national security threat in a fashion similar to how it did Huawei and ZTE. However, the "Communist Chinese | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago

FAA establishes new drone flying permissions and finalizes Remote ID

Yesterday, the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) handed down its final regulations for unmanned aerial vehicles, a.k.a. drones. The new rules are | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 3 years ago