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If you have an Android phone and a car with an infotainment system made in the past decade, you’re likely familiar with Android Auto. It acts as an extension of your phone and displays its apps on a car-friendly interface, taking care of navigation, calls, messages, and media playback — negating the need for you…

We’re all used to dealing with the occasional glitch with the software or services we use. Maybe that takes the form of a confusing error message. Maybe it’s the app simply doing something other than what we tell it to do. But maybe the most frustrating problems of all are the kind where we just…

Welcome to episode 43 of The Sideload, a 9to5Google podcast. This week, Will is joined by 9to5’s Daniel Bader for an interview with Fairphone’s CTO Chandler Hatton. The trio discusses the brand-new Fairphone Gen 6+, the company’s first official US launch, the appetite for repairable devices amid the growing RAM crunch, and much more.

Samsung has addressed growing concerns over the folding screen on its latest Galaxy Z Fold 8 flagship, confirming that the noticeable “give” or flex in the corners of the panel is an intentional design choice rather than a manufacturing defect. The clarification follows widespread user reports indicating that some Galaxy Z Fold 8 inner screens…