Google's latest Android 16 QPR2 beta for Pixels brings app shortcut tweaks, UI polish, and stability improvements.

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, ...

The Free Software Foundation's new Librephone project wants to reverse engineer the binary blobs our phones rely on.

Popular with privacy-focused users, Android fork GrapheneOS has been limited to select Pixel handsets, but that's set to ...

The Gemini overlay in Chrome for Android has a new chip. The new chip acts as a shortcut for summarizing a page. It appears the feature always uses Gemini 2.5 Flash to create a summary.

If your new phone no longer supports SIM cards, or you don't want to use them anymore, you can convert to eSIM instead. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) ...