Someone must have slipped up a week ago and posted this slightly early, so if you saw it and are thinking you've seen this ...

Following the first Android 17 QPR1 Beta release a couple of weeks ago, Google is already back to give us Android 17 QPR1 Beta 2. There must have been enough critical bugs that they couldn’t wait ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. F-Droid isn’t pulling any punches. In a blistering new post, the open-source Android app repository has accused Google of trying to ...

Unlike Apple, Google has always made it relatively easy for users to install Android apps from sources other than the company’s official app store. But recently the company announced that it will ...

“Google does not own your phone,” Android users are warned, as a controversial new update suddenly becomes real. “You own your phone. You have the right to decide who to trust.” That may be true. But ...

[timecom-gdgt url=”http://gdgt.com/motorola/droid/x/” style=”full” float=”right”] The countless comparisons between feature-rich Android handsets and ...

F-Droid has warned that Google’s new developer verification rules could effectively kill alternative Android app stores. The platform says that Google’s rules are monopolistic and harmful to ...

F-Droid has challenged Google’s claim that sideloading is safe, calling it false. The conflict centers on new Android developer verification rules that require government ID and Google approval.

They're barely in the same league ...