U.S. security panel approves T-Mobile/Sprint merger

While Huawei's Chief Financial Officer faces extradition to the United States over claims that the company avoided U.S. sanctions on Iran, Huawei might be... by Corbin Davenport in Carriers, Huawei, Legal, News, Sprint, T-Mobile | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google confirms Allo will shut down, Hangouts Chat/Meet coming to non-corp users

There has been a whirlwind of rumors around Google's messaging strategy over the past few days. First we heard that Hangouts might be shutting down, with... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, Breaking, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

How PVP Trainer Battles Will Work in Pokémon Go

Niantic promised to bring PVP to Pokémon Go by the end of the year, and today the company has revealed how it should work when it lands later this... by Ryne Hager in Games, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google Chrome will automatically download news articles for offline reading

There has been a big push to improve internet access and make it easier to view online content in NBU markets (Next Billion Users) in recent years.... by Scott Scrivens in Applications, Chrome, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Scott Johnson: No Hangouts Shutdown Date; Transition to Hangouts Chat and Meet

Yesterday it was reported that Google was planning to sunset Hangouts sometime in 2020. However, according to Scott Johnston, director of product... by Ryne Hager in Applications, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

YouTube on the web tests a 'Scroll for details' option in FULLSCREEN

YouTube has been testing different ways to help you keep watching videos on the web, while simultaneously letting you browse for more content or see detail... by Rita El Khoury in Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google aims to create 'closed loop' for user data with new security chip

Google's new Titan Security chip promises to make the Pixels more secure than ever. | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

SuperSU has been removed from the Play Store

For years, SuperSU was one of the most popular root applications for Android. Chainfire, the creator of SuperSU, handed over development to CCMT in 2015. H... by Corbin Davenport in News, ROMs & Modding | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Android 1.0 versus Android 9: A visual tour of how far we've come in a decade

Android has changed tremendously in the last ten years. Returning to modern hardware after our historical series, I was struck by the visual differences ac... by Ryne Hager in Android 9 Pie, Android OS, Design, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Snapchat now lets you buy products on Amazon by taking pictures of them

The Snapchat app is still a dumpster fire, but now it's a dumpster fire that can look up products on Amazon. While work continues on the revamped Android a... by Corbin Davenport in Apps, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Android App Bundles and Dynamic Delivery

Installing an app from the Play Store is an almost magically streamlined experience: You find the app you want, tap “Install,” and sit back whi... by Stephen Schenck in Applications, Development, Google, News, Videos | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

The first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, was announced 10 years ago today

On this fateful day ten years ago, Google, T-Mobile, and HTC joined forces to announce the T-Mobile G1. It would go on to launch internationally as the HTC... by Ryan Whitwam in Android OS, G1 (Dream), HTC, News, T-Mobile, Videos | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google Maps' group planning Shortlist starts showing up for some users

Summer is over and most Googlers are back at their desk working on releasing features we were promised at I/O 2018 (and making our lives, especially Cody's... by Rita El Khoury in Applications, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Chrome tests hiding URLs for Google searches

URLs for Google search results are big, ugly things that contain a lot of information you probably don't need to see most of the time. The team behind Chro... by Taylor Kerns in Chrome, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Twitter brings back purely chronological timeline – your turn, FB and Instagram

Twitter is making a long-desired change to offer users the reverse-chronological feed it once made default. | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

'DC Universe' subscription service leaves beta, costs $8 a month

Back in June, Warner announced a new subscription service called 'DC Universe.' It includes a wide variety of new and old video content, digital comics, an... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

The OnePlus 6T will ditch the headphone jack

RIP. The OnePlus 6T won't have a headphone jack, OnePlus CEO Carl Pei confirmed in an interview with TechRadar. The reason Pei gave is one we've heard befo... by Taylor Kerns in News, OnePlus, OnePlus 6T | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Chrome for Android may start disabling JavaScript on 2G connections

Google has added countless features to Chrome, especially the Android version, that are designed to improve functionality on slow connections. It can autom... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, Chrome, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google Titan security key now available to buy – $50 (Currently US only)

If you're conscious of your own digital security in the modern era, then odds are you use two/multi-factor authentication to secure your more important acc... by Ryne Hager in Google, News, Security | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Verizon will give first responders unlimited data plan and priority acces

Verizon has decided to remove all speed cap restrictions for first responder subscribers, like the California firefighters who recently experienced throttl... by Ryne Hager in News, Verizon Wireless | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Palm Is Developing a New Smartphone

  What you're seeing above is the first Palm smartphone since the Pre 3 was announced in 2011. Currently codenamed 'Pepito,' this new handset is heade... by David Ruddock in Exclusives, News, Rumors | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Chrome is using 10-13% more RAM because of Spectre mitigation efforts

If you feel like Chrome's been using more RAM on the desktop client since the v67 release a month back, good news: you're not going crazy! Bad news: it def... by David Ruddock in Applications, Chrome, Chrome OS, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google Phone v22 prepares call screening with real-time transcriptions

The Google Phone app is getting an update this afternoon for all of the phones out there that use it. We haven't noticed any new changes on the surface, bu... by Cody Toombs in APK Teardown, Applications, Downloads, News, Videos | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

PUBG Corp copyright lawsuit against Fortnite-creator Epic Games has been dropped

Early this morning Bloomberg broke the news that the South Korean copyright suit brought against the Fortnite creator Epic Games by PUBG Corp. ha... by Matthew Sholtz in Games, Legal, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Play Store's new 'app signatures' aren't DRM, and sideloading isn't in danger

Earlier this month, Google announced that it would start adding metadata to applications downloaded from the Play Store. The metadata serves as proof that... by Corbin Davenport in Editorials, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Lawsuit shows WB Westworld game stole Fallout Shelter code, even has same bugs

Westworld Mobile landed on Android a mere two days ago, and at the time pretty much everyone remarked that the game was very similar to Fallout Shelter. Tu... by Ryne Hager in Games, Legal, News, Videos | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

You can no longer book Uber rides inside Google Maps on Android

Google has removed the ability to book an Uber ride from inside Google Maps. You can still look up the route in Maps and then “request the ride from... by Killian Bell in Applications, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google says that Substratum was broken by design in Android P

In a blow to the custom themers out there, Google has responded to the cry for Substratum "support" to return to stock Android. The verdict is that the bre... by Jordan Palmer in Android OS, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google releases standalone Lens app in Play Store

Google Lens is available on most Android phones in some fashion, but now there's another way to access Google's computer vision platform. There's a new sta... by Ryan Whitwam in Applications, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft reportedly acquiring GitHub tomorrow

GitHub is one of the most popular sites for hosting repositories of code. Google moved most of its projects to GitHub after Google Code shut down, and... by Corbin Davenport in Development, Microsoft, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google Removes Keep Wi-Fi Off During Sleep (2017)

If you have an incredibly detailed memory, you may recall as far back as around 24 hours ago, when we talked about how the "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" set... by Ryne Hager in Google, News, Oreo 8.0/8.1 | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google quits selling tablets

Google has been doing an impressive job of pretending Android tablets don't exist for the last few years, and now it's done pretending. Google has updated... by Ryan Whitwam in Android OS, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google Voice consolidates your message history

Back in February, we noticed in a teardown for the Google Voice app that support for text messages originally sent via Hangouts was coming to the app. Note... by Ryne Hager in Applications, Google, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Apple rejects Steam Link app for iOS and Apple TV, citing 'business conflicts'

Steam Link for iOS and Android was released last week, allowing users to stream games from a local desktop PC to their phone. We reviewed the Android versi... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

Google AMP is still confusing, and it's not getting any better

The mobile web can be frustrating. Smartphones and tablets are becoming faster every year, but modern sites usually outpace them by becoming more complicat... by Corbin Davenport in Editorials, News, Videos | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 5 years ago

AsteroidOS, an open-source Wear OS alternative

A few years ago, a French computer science student named Florent Revest undertook a project to keep Android Wear smartwatches from dying of obsolescence. T... by Jordan Palmer in News, Smartwatches, Videos, Wearables | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 6 years ago

The Secure Data Act would eliminate government-mandated backdoors

Image: EFF Congress is set to vote on a bill that would prevent any government agency from requiring device manufacturers and software developers to implem... by Jordan Palmer in Legal, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 6 years ago

Google Assistant's 'Pretty Please' will encourage kids to be polite

You don't have to be nice to AI assistants. As long as they can understand you, they'll generally do what you ask, regardless of how you ask it. Some paren... by Taylor Kerns in Google, Google Assistant, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 6 years ago

Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

Sharing from one app to another has been a mainstay of Android for years and years. It was one of the features that first drew me to Android: no more copyi... by Rita El Khoury in Editorials, Google | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 6 years ago

This is what it's like using only open-source software on Android

Technically speaking, Android is open-source. This means anyone can look at the operating system's code, or change it - this is how OEMs like HTC and Samsu... by Corbin Davenport in Editorials, News | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 6 years ago