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Android Auto is the phone companion for your car, mirroring apps, messages and maps to your in-built display. Your audio is mirrored, too, with music and notifications passing through to your car’s speaker system. You might notice that, from time to time, Android might automatically lower the volume for you while you’re driving.

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Another month, another “Drop.” Google announced its latest crop of features for Android devices this week, all coming as part of its September Android Drop. While the list is relatively small, these five new features all actually seem pretty useful. In fact, with this update, Google is kind of making the case to avoid buying…

IFA 2026 is delivering a pretty wild new Android phone that’s not only rugged, but has a GoPro-like action camera built-in which can be detached and used for capturing footage on the fly.

It’s Distracted Driver Awareness Month, and automakers like GM are putting a focus on high-tech solutions to keep drivers safe behind the wheel.

Joining the Labor Day sales at Best Buy and Amazon, your Friday afternoon lineup of the best Android game and app deals is now ready: Friend of a Slime: Survivors, The Tiny Bang Story: Premium, Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom, Radiant: Guardians Of Light, Halls of Torment: Premium, Guardian War: Ultimate Edition, Super Dark Deception, and…

It’s been a tough 12 months for the smartphone industry. Memory prices are up, unit sales are down, and a generally poor outlook for the future has not only forced the cancellation of specific models (the Nothing CMF Phone 3 Pro), but also entire brands (RIP OnePlus).

The Google Pixel 11 Pro XL, like the rest of the new Pixel 11 phones, doesn’t offer much in terms of huge upgrades over the Pixel 10 line. The Pixel 11 Pro XL’s design is only slightly altered versus that of the Pixel 10 Pro XL, with a new all-glass camera bump and an LED…

Smartphones have become increasingly capable of high-quality video capture. Apple debuted ProRes video on its iPhones years ago, but Android phones have also made major strides thanks to LOG and APV video capture. Now, Lexar has announced an extremely thin SSD that might be the one to get for people who film a ton of…