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Google’s latest AI features are becoming less about what version of Android your phone runs and more about what’s inside it. If you were hoping a software update would eventually bring Google’s smartest Gemini Intelligence features to your older flagship, the latest device list is a good reality check. Google now says Gemini Nano 4…

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra is finally here, though some variants are facing delayed shipments due to high demand. It’s not uncommon for a newly released flagship phone to be put through its paces in durability tests, and Samsung’s latest foldable has received the same treatment, with a rather surprising result.

Google is out with a blog post today recapping new network security measures in Android 17.

Using copyrighted text for training large language models has been a controversial topic for as long as AI has been a buzzword. That hasn’t stopped frontier labs from gaining access to books, including physical ones, to satisfy the ever-scaling need for pretraining data. The pursuit of high-quality human data has also led to legal troubles…

Google has introduced platform-wide support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) on Android 17, making it the first major mobile OS to do so. Jigsaw, a tech incubator within Alphabet, says ECH closes a critical internet privacy gap. It explains that even when you’re visiting a website with secure HTTP (HTTPS), internet service providers can still see…

These phones are best-sellers elsewhere around the world, but US consumers probably haven’t even heard of them.

Here’s the trouble with that question: the OnePlus 15 is running what is currently the fastest Android chipset on the market, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. We’re waiting on the imminent release of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, but until then, what is often the case is that phones that “outperform” the…

Buying a new phone shouldn’t feel like a downgrade. For those upgrading from an older Pixel to a new Pixel 11 series device, that’s apparently exactly what’s happening, at least when it comes to their Google Maps experience.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 still has a special place in my heart, purely because I could pop the back off and swap in a fresh battery myself. Phones have come a long way since then, and that kind of easy repairability largely disappeared along the way. But Fairphone has spent years trying to keep the…

Retro gamers may remember the old PlayStation 1 swap trick: The system would only check disc integrity when first booting, so you could run imports or backups by first powering the PlayStation up with a legit disc in it, and then quickly swapping it out. It turns out that Meta’s smart glasses have been vulnerable…