Android Stories for 2020

MediaTek Becomes Biggest Smartphone Chipset Vendor 10
Samsung Just Updated One of Its Phone Apps To Serve Customers Even More Ads 50
Google Kills Android Things, a Smart Home OS That Never Took Off 40
Why Google's Big 'Four Year' Android Update Promise Is a Little Misleading 54
Google Launches Android Enterprise Essentials Aimed at SMBs 14
Qualcomm's New Snapdragon 888 Processor Will Power the Android Flagships of 2021 35
Samsung May Discontinue High-End Galaxy Note Smartphones 54
Microsoft's 'Project Latte' Aims To Bring Android Apps To Windows 10 65
Baidu's Android Apps Caught Collecting Sensitive User Details 19
Messaging App Go SMS Pro Exposed Millions of Users' Private Photos and Files 17
Google Sued After Cellular Data Allowances Eaten by Hidden Transfers 19
Google Sued After Mobile Allowances Eaten Up By Hidden Data Transfers 54
Security Holes Opened Back Door To TCL Android Smart TVs 55
Google's Play Store Identified as Main Distribution Vector For Most Android Malware 27
On Older Versions of Android, Many Let's Encrypt-Secured Sites May Stop Working in 2021 45
Google Photos Tests Locking Color Pop Behind a Google One Paywall 21
Android Turns 13 Years Old 27
Samsung Regains Top Smartphone Vendor Spot as Xiaomi Overtakes Apple 49
OnePlus Co-Founder Carl Pei Has Left the Company, Report Says 12
240+ Android Apps Caught Showing Out-of-Context Ads 8
Google Gets Mixed Reception in High Court Clash With Oracle 74
Google Is Building a Special Android Security Team to Hunt Bugs in Sensitive Apps 10
Pixel Miss 67
Microsoft's Bing Will Have Key Slot on Some New Android Phones 24
Google Removes 17 Android Apps Caught Engaging In WAP Billing Fraud 57
Google's Epic Response: Android 12 Will Make It Easier To Install App Stores 44
Encrochat Investigation Finds Corrupt Cops Leaking Information To Criminals 41
Android 11 Go Could Make Cheap Phones Up To 20% Faster 35
Academics Find Crypto Bugs in 306 Popular Android Apps, None Get Patched 32
Google Begins Rolling Out Android 11 32
Google Removes Android App That Was Used To Spy On Belarusian Protesters 26
Meet the $3,300 Edition of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 59
Comcast is Looking To Enter the Smart TV Wars 80
Google: Jetpack Compose Lets Android Developers Write Apps With 'Dramatically Less Code' 8
Unredacted Suit Shows Google's Own Engineers Confused By Privacy Settings 51
Firefox Daylight For Android Arrives With Enhanced Tracking Protection, New UI 54
Android 11 Is Taking Away the Camera Picker, Forcing People To Only Use the Built-In Camera 156
Chrome For Android Will Show 'Fast Page' Labels Based On Web Vitals 27
Google Makes Building Android Apps on Chrome OS Easier 9
'Stalkerware' Phone Spying Apps Have Escaped Google's Ad Ban 25
TikTok Tracked User Data Using Tactic Banned By Google 46
Android is Becoming a Worldwide Earthquake Detection Network 32
Google Rival's Study Urges Letting Mobile Users Pick Search Defaults 36
Millions of Android Phones At Risk Due to 'Achilles' Flaw in Qualcomm Chips 36
Twitter Says Security Flaw May Have Exposed Android Users' Direct Messages 5
Google Has Already Discontinued the Pixel 4 and 4 XL 24
OnePlus is Bogging Its Phones Down With Unremovable Facebook Bloatware 57
Chrome for Android May Soon Send Notifications Reminding You To Use Chrome 43
Microsoft Integrates Android Apps Into Windows 10 With New 'Your Phone' Update 36
Twitter Says Android Security Bug Gave Access To Direct Messages 4
The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Has Lasers, Plays Xbox Games, And is Just Massive 50
Android's Nearby Share' File Sharing Feature is Finally Launching 27
In Wake of Apple Acquisition, Dark Sky Ends Android Support 100
Google Announces Pixel 4a and Pixel 4a 5G 52
Google Accused By Developer of Retaliation For Cooperating With House Antitrust Investigation 24
Microsoft Is Shutting Down Cortana On Multiple Devices, Including iOS and Android 36
Huawei Overtakes Samsung as World's Biggest Smartphone Vendor 46
Google One Now Offers Free Phone Backups Up To 15GB on Android and iOS 27
Samsung Weighs Dropping Its Bixby AI Assistant and Galaxy Apps Store as Google Dangles New Mobile Apps Deal 31
Ask Slashdot: How Long Do You Expect Your Smartphone To Last? 393
Google Keeps Tabs on Usage of Rival Android Apps To Develop Competitors 25
Google Promises Privacy With Virus App But Can Still Collection Location Data 83
Firefox Working on Fixing a One-Year-Old Bug in Its Android App That Keeps Camera Active After Users Have Minimized the App or Locked Their Phone 18
Android 10 Had the Fastest Adoption Rate of Any Version of Android Yet 27
More Pre-Installed Malware Has Been Found In Budget US Smartphones 34
Your Next Samsung Phone May Not Come With a Charger in the Box 129
Microsoft Brings Android OS Development for Surface Duo In-house With Movial Acquisition 8
Chrome for Android is Finally Going 64-bit, Giving it a Speed Boost in Benchmarks 46
Apple and Google Block Dozens of Chinese Apps in India 12
Ads Are Taking Over Samsung's Galaxy Smartphones 137
Android's AirDrop Competitor Is Coming Soon 28
Google Removes 25 Android Apps Caught Stealing Facebook Credentials 33
Microsoft Is Adding Linux, Android, and Firmware Protections To Windows 19
Microsoft Releases First Public Preview of its Defender Antivirus on Android 18
Despite Disappointing Pixel 4, 2019 Was Google's Best Year for Phone Sales Yet 15
Android 11 Will Help You Rein In Zombie App Permissions 37
Playing Around With the Fuchsia OS 102
New Cold Boot Attack Affects Seven Years of LG Android Smartphones 10
Google Removes Viral Chinese-App Scanner From the Play Store 36
Setting This Image As Wallpaper Could Soft-Brick Your Phone 42
Google Launches Android Studio 4.0 With Motion Editor, Build Analyzer, and Java 8 APIs 6
New Android Vulnerability Strandhogg 2.0 Exploits User Trust 10
Google Removes QAnon Apps From Play Store for Violating Terms 207
What Ban? Huawei is Launching 'New Editions' of Existing Smartphones With Support For Google Services 45
Austrian Citizen Files GDPR Legal Complaint Over Android Advertising ID 43
Google Unifies All of Its Messaging and Communication Apps Into a Single Team 34
Xiaomi Releases Browser Update Amid Accusations It Collects Private Browsing Data 27
Google Purged Almost 1,000 Abusive 'Creeperware' Apps. Now Some Are Coming Back. 28
Xiaomi Found Recording 'Private' Web and Phone Use, Researchers Claim 54
Fairphone 3 Now Available With 'de-Googled' Android /e/OS 66
How Spies Snuck Malware Into the Google Play Store -- Again and Again 34
Android OEM Patch Rates Have Improved, With Nokia and Google Leading the Charge 30
Motorola Edge, Edge+ Go Official As the Company's First Flagships In Years 40
Vivaldi Browser Gets Built-in Tracking Blocker, Goes GA on Android 26
Epic Games Launches Fortnite on the Google Play Store But It's Not Happy About It 63
Google Bans Apps With Deceptive Subscription Offers From the Play Store 3
The Secret Behind 'Unkillable' Android Backdoor Called xHelper Has Been Revealed 40
The OnePlus 8 Pro Has a 120Hz Screen, Quadruple Camera, and Costs $899 98
Samsung's S-Voice Is Shutting Down On June 1st 27
Google Launches Braille Keyboard for Android Devices 4
Samsung's Older Smart TVs Are Losing Remote Control App Support 66
LG Is Ditching 'G' Series Branding On Future Smartphones 14
The Nokia 8.3 Is the First Truly Global 5G Phone 14
Google Translate Launches Transcribe for Android in 8 Languages 7
Oracle Rejects Argument That Before Suing Google, It Got Rich By Copying IBM's SQL 85
Huawei Expects 20 Percent Drop In Android Smartphone Sales, Thanks To Lack of Google Apps 32
Google Scrubs Coronavirus Misinformation on Search, YouTube 115
Spying Concerns Raised Over Iran's Official COVID-19 Detection App 8
Google Could Have Fixed 2FA Code-Stealing Flaw in Authenticator App Years Ago 30
Hack Turns Apple's iPhone Into An Android 99
Google Assistant Can Now Read or Translate Websites and Android App Content 4
Almost Half of Mobile Malware Are Hidden Apps 27
Google Cloned Apple's 3D Touch For the Pixel Using Just Software 45
LG's New V60 ThinQ Is a Huge Phone With a Removable Second Screen 18
Samsung Cops To Data Breach After Unsolicited '1/1' Find My Mobile Push Notification 42
Google To Put a Muzzle on Android Apps Accessing Location Data in the Background 41
Trump Backs Supporter Larry Ellison in Court Fight With Google 152
Samsung Sparks Confusion After Sending Out Mysterious '1' Notification To Smartphones 77
Google Launches Android 11 Developer Preview 1 12
Google Stadia Is Coming To Samsung, Asus, and Razer Phones On February 20th 20
Google Confirms It Again Removed Alleged Spying Tool ToTok From Google Play 3
Samsung's Changes To Android Are Making Its Phones Less Secure, Says Google 42
Samsung's Second Foldable Smartphone, $1,380 Galaxy Z Flip, is Dead on Arrival, Too 49
Google's Area 120 Brings Quick Web Games To Slow Phones 14
An Old Android Virus is Reinstalling Itself Even After Factory Resets 58
Let's Get Real About How Important Our Phones Are 314
Tim Sweeney: Android is a Fake Open System, and iOS is Worse 87
Samsung Unveils Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra 154
Google Fixes No-User-Interaction Bug In Android's Bluetooth Component 22
Google Maps for iOS and Android Redesigned To Help You Plan Better Trips 35
China's Mobile Giants Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo To Take on Google's Play Store 17
Netflix Starts Streaming AV1 On Android To Save Cellular Data 34
Apple Brings iCloud Photos and More To Android With New Web-Based Apps 12
Xiaomi Spin-Off Poco Returns With the 120Hz X2 For $225 24
Google Has Paid Android Developers About Half of What Apple Has 129
Should Huawei Just Abandon Android? 91
Tetris Returns To Android and iOS After EA's Version Shuts Down 27
How Dual-Screen Apps Will Run On Windows 10X, Android 29
Microsoft's CEO Looks To a Future Beyond Windows, iOS, and Android 53
14% of Android App Privacy Policies Contain Contradictions About Data Collection 30
Why This Time The New Browser Wars Are Different 89
Xiaomi Spins Off POCO as an Independent Company 6
Google is Working on Native Call Recording For the Phone App, Code Suggests 31
More Than Half a Billion Android Users Have Installed 'Fleeceware' Apps 37
Samsung's Removable-Battery Smartphone Is Coming To the US For $499 120
Bing Loses Out To DuckDuckGo in Google's New Android Search Engine Ballot 37
New LG CEO Won't Give Up on Smartphone Market, Promises Profitability by 2021 35
Over 50 Organizations Ask Google To Take a Stand Against Android Bloatware 98
Samsung's Galaxy XCover Pro Brings Back the Removable Battery 35
Unremovable Malware Found Preinstalled on Low-End Smartphone Sold in the US 56
HTC, Once a Top Smartphone Maker, Had a Terrible 2019 43