Android Circuit: OnePlus Launches OxygenOS 16, Honor’s Magic8 Meets A Robot, Lineage 23 Released

OnePlus launches OxygenOS 16, Samsung prepares trifold for the world, Galaxy S26 Edge disappointment, Pixel Tensor study, ...
IEEE

Born with a Silver Spoon: On the (In)Security of Native Granted App Privileges in Custom Android ROMs

Abstract: The customization and fragmentation of the Android ecosystem have fostered its prosperity and highlighted the growing importance of conducting security audits on these customized systems.

Your open-source custom ROM has a dirty secret, and Librephone wants to fix it

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

This Privacy-First Android Software Is Looking to Expand Beyond Pixel Devices

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

Custom PC builder quotes $11,000 labor fee for $4,000 build, claims it will take 280 hours

WTF?! If you were going to pay someone to build a PC, how would you expect the labor costs to be? One Redditor was quoted the comically high price of over $11,000 for a build that was allegedly going ...
Liliputing

MoaanFLY is an E Ink tablet with a color display, Android software, and a second battery in the cover (crowdfunding)

There are a growing number of eReaders with color E Ink displays. But the MoaanFLY is one of the more unusual I’ve seen. It’s an Android-powered device with the kind of specs you’d expect to find in ...