Amazon is planning to stop using Android on its entire range of own-brand smart devices, moving instead to a new operating system (OS) developed internally. As Lowpass reports, Amazon has had hundreds ...

Android is open in theory, but very closed in practice.

Google is no longer backporting security patches to Android 12 or 12L, as both operating systems have reached end-of-life status. This means that device makers will have to backport security patches ...

Android 13 is out. Google already discontinued support for the OS version released in 2022 at the beginning of March. Since the beginning of March 2026, and thus about three and a half years after the ...

Android debuted with an HTC made smartphone, the T-Mobile G1, back in 2008 in the US. The phone was better known as HTC Dream outside the US and it was the world’s first mobile device to run on the ...

I’ve been covering Android since 2023, when I joined Android Police, mostly focusing on AI and everything around Pixel and Galaxy phones. I’ve got a bachelor’s in IT with a major in AI, so I naturally ...