Android Stories for 2018

Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent 146
Google Will Launch the Pixel 3 and 3 XL 'Lite' on Verizon in Spring 2019, Report Says 30
Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record 26
Two Android Apps Used In Combat By US Troops Contained Severe Vulnerabilities 54
The Last Independent Mobile OS 60
In a Test, 3D Model of a Head Was Able To Fool Facial Recognition System of Several Popular Android Smartphones 123
Google's CEO Thinks Android Users Know How Much Their Phones Are Tracking Them 131
Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On 56
Google Play Services Drops Support For Android Ice Cream Sandwich 85
Google Is Shutting Down Its Allo Messaging App, Says Report 62
Google Bridges Android, iOS Development With Flutter 1.0 116
Google Hangouts For Consumers Will Be Shutting Down Sometime In 2020 83
Google To Open Project Fi To iPhone, Samsung, and OnePlus 66
Google's Duplex is Rolling Out To Small Group Of Pixel Owners 7
Google's Find My Device Tool Can Now Map Out Exactly Where You Left Your Phone Inside Some Buildings 28
500,000 Duped Into Downloading Android Malware Posing As Driving Games On Google Play 62
Lock-Screen Bypass Bug Quietly Patched In Handsets 21
Mid-Range Google 'Pixel 3 Lite' Leaks With Snapdragon 670, Headphone Jack 94
Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Ordered All Facebook Executives To Use Android Phones After Tim Cook Criticized Facebook 215
Many Free Mobile VPN Apps Are Based In China Or Have Chinese Ownership 67
Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? 189
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Service Launches on Android and iOS 105
Google Is Adding Android Support For Foldable Screens 22
Samsung Will Put Notches On Its Future Phones 125
Google Sends Final Software Update To Legacy Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P Phones 107
The Year OnePlus Started Ignoring Fans 116
Android Pie Has a Battery Life Problem 76
Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak 180
Google Pixel 3 XL Bug Adds Second Notch To Side of the Screen 44
Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei 109
New Study Claims Data Harvesting Among Android Apps Is 'Out of Control' 97
In First Ruling of Its Kind, Apple and Samsung Fined For Deliberately Slowing Down Old Phones 187
Google Now Requires Partner OEMs To Offer Two Years of Security Updates To Popular Phones 74
Google Can't Remove Third-Party App Store Aptoide From Users' Android Phones, Portuguese Courts Rule 77
Why the Google Pixel 3 Charges Faster On a Pixel Stand Than Other Wireless Chargers 124
Almost 9 in 10 Android Apps Are Able To Share Data With Google, Says Study 33
Apps Installed On Millions Of Android Phones Tracked User Behavior To Execute A Multimillion Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme 68
Google News App Bug Is Using Up Gigabytes of Background Data Without Users' Knowledge 110
UK ISP Tests SIM Card That Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor 46
Experimental Android App Determines Alertness By Examining Eyes 22
Some Google Pixel Owners' Camera Photos Aren't Saving 47
Google App Suite Costs as Much as $40 Per Phone Under New EU Android Deal 120
Essential Products, Startup From Android Creator Andy Rubin, Lays Off 30 Percent of Staff 56
Palm Is Back With a Mini Companion Android Phone That's Exclusive To Verizon 101
Google Maps Adds EV Charging Station Info 34
Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe 149
Razer Phone 2 Launches With Notch-less Display, Wireless Charging, and RGB Lighting 72
Microsoft Joins Open Invention Network (OIN), Will Grant a Royalty-Free and Unrestricted License To Its Entire Patent Portfolio To All Other OIN Members 103
Google Appeals $5 Billion EU Fine In Android Case 52
LG Announces V40 ThinQ With Five Cameras, 6.4-iInch OLED Screen 28
Microsoft Is Embracing Android As the Mobile Version of Windows 76
Alphabet's Intra App Encrypts DNS Queries To Help Users Bypass Online Censorship 65
Bill Gates-Backed Social Recommendation App Likewise Now Available for iOS and Android 34
Microsoft Announces App Mirroring To Let You Use Any Android App On Windows 10 59
SuperSU, a Popular Root App For Android, Disappears From Google Play Store 66
MX Player, a Video App Used By More Than 175 Million Users, Debuts OTT Service. Android Enthusiasts Express Concern. 54
Password Managers Can Be Tricked Into Believing That Malicious Android Apps Are Legitimate 73
Xiaomi Admits To Putting Ads In the Settings Menu of Its Phones 46
Google's Android OS To Power Dashboard Displays 77
iPhone XS, XS Max Are World's Fastest Phones (Again) 130
Google Remotely Changed the Settings on a Bunch of Phones Running Android 9 Pie 91
New iPhones, new Galaxies: Who's the Bigger Copycat? 149
OnePlus 6T Trades the Headphone Jack For Better Battery Life 254
Google's Location Privacy Practices Are Under Investigation in Arizona: Report 29
Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 3100 Smartwatch Chip Promises Up To 2 Days of Battery Life 45
Huawei Caught Cheating Performance Test For New Phones 74
Researchers Used Sonar Signal From a Smartphone Speaker To Steal Unlock Passwords 45
Android Bug Allows Geolocation Tracking of Users 46
Google Is Revamping the Wear OS Smartwatch UI 38
Chinese Phone Maker Huawei Risks Alienating Its Loyal Customer Base By Taking a Strong Stand Against Unlocking of Its Handsets, Users Say 148
'Irresponsible' Google Refused Fortnite's Request To Delay Vulnerability Disclosure To Score Cheap PR Points, Says Epic's Chief 230
Smartphones From 11 OEMs, Including Google, Samsung, HTC, Lenovo and Sony, Vulnerable To Attacks Via Hidden AT Commands 116
Epic's First Fortnite Installer Allowed Hackers To Covertly Download and Install Anything on Users' Android Phones, Google Researchers Say 39
China's Xiaomi Announces New Venture To Bring Budget Flagship Smartphones To Over 50 Markets; Announces $300 Handset Featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 72
Stolen Android Anti-Piracy Software Dumped On Github 33
OnePlus 6T Will Launch With T-Mobile, the First US Carrier Partner 15
Google Is Developing Native Hearing Aid Support For Android 50
Android Pie Breaks Pixel XL's Ability To Fast Charge 79
Many Google Services on Android Devices and iPhones Store Location Data, Even if Location Sharing is Disabled From Privacy Settings: AP 122
Google Play Shows Warning To Anyone Searching For Fortnite APKs 83
Millions of Android Devices Are Vulnerable Right Out of the Box 67
Samsung Announces $1,000 Galaxy Note 9 Smartphone With Last-Gen Android Software Out-of-the-Box 197
Google Begins Rolling Out Android Pie To Select Handsets 65
Why iPhone and Android Phone Prices Will Get Even Higher 271
Citing 'Economic Efficiency,' Epic Says Fortnite's Upcoming Android App Won't Hit Google Play Store 131
Motorola Launches Verizon-Exclusive Moto Z3 Smartphone, 5G Moto Mod 52
Google-backed Kotlin Gains Adoption in Open Source Android Apps; Scientists Say It Has Improved Code Quality 86
Samsung's Tab S4 Is Both An Android Tablet and a Desktop Computer 63
Huawei Passes Apple For Second Place In Smartphone Shipments 166
Sony's Mobile Business Is Shrinking Out of Existence 88
Google Bans Android Phones From Having Three or More Notches 116
Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From the Play Store 111
Chrome Extensions, Android and iOS Apps Caught Collecting Browsing Data 24
VLC Blacklists Newer Huawei Devices To Combat Negative App Reviews 78
Google Video Shows All-White Redesigns For Gmail, Google Photos, and More 105
Droppers Is How Android Malware Keeps Sneaking Into the Play Store 38
Chrome OS Isn't Ready For Tablets Yet 35
Project 'Fuchsia': Google is Quietly Working on a Successor To Android 122
Google Warns Android Might Not Remain Free Because of EU Decision 280
EU Regulators Fine Google Record $5 Billion in Android Case 468
Samsung's Galaxy S10 To Come In Three Sizes, With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor 85
On Silicon Valley Companies' Bet On Boosting Their Userbases in Developing Markets With Dirt-Cheap Phones and Lite Apps 62
Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen 319
HTC Had Its Biggest Drop In Sales In More Than Two Years 45
Study Finds That a Large Number of Popular Android Apps Secretly Cast the Screen To Third Parties, But They Don't Listen To Conversations 97
Google Invests $22 Million In Feature Phone Operating System KaiOS 28
Every Android Device Launched Since 2012 Impacted By RAMpage Vulnerability 83
New Snapdragon Chips Bring Dual Cameras To More Mid-Tier Phones 13
Google Earth's New Tool Lets You Measure Distance Between Anything On Earth 57
Google is Adding Anti-Tampering DRM To Android Apps in the Play Store 177
Fake Fortnite Android Apps Spread Across Internet 30
Android Messages Will Now Let You Send Texts From Your Computer 107
Google Maps Removes Uber Integration 37
Spanish Soccer League App In Google Play Wants To Use Phone Mics To Enforce Copyrights 77
Google Brings Offline Neural Machine Translations For 59 Languages To Its Translate App 46
Spanish Football League Defends Phone 'Spying' 86
BlackBerry Key2 is the 'Most Secure Android Smartphone', Company Claims 53
Google Launches Android P Beta 2 With Final APIs 40
Google's Lens AI Camera Is Now a Standalone App 18
Google Quits Selling Tablets 143
Samsung Won't Be Forced To Update Old Smartphones 145
Huawei Will No Longer Allow Bootloader Unlocking On Its Android Handsets 253
Android Creator Puts Essential Up For Sale, Cancels Next Phone 51
Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped With Malware Built In 49
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 710 Platform For Midrange Android Phones 31
The Toughest (And Weakest) Phones Currently On the Market 112
The Verge Goes Hands-On With the 'Wildly Ambitious' RED Hydrogen One Smartphone 53
Popular 'Gboard' Keyboard App Has Had a Broken Spell Checker For Months 54
Facebook's Android App Is Asking for Superuser Privileges, Users Say 183
With Steam Link App, Your Smartphone Can Be An Imperfect Gaming Monitor 47
OnePlus 6 Launched With 6.28-inch Display, Snapdragon 845 CPU, and Headphone Jack 109
Google Is Building a Pixel-Branded Smartwatch, Says Report 40
Malicious Apps Get Back on the Play Store Just by Changing Their Name 56
ZTE Shuts Down Main Business Operations After US Ban 134
Google Maps Is Getting AR Directions, Recommendation Features 38
Google Details New Android P Features, Including iPhone X-Like Gesture Controls 36
Google To Launch a New Set of Android Controls To Help You Manage Phone Use, Report Says 11
Microsoft's New Mobile Strategy: Create Windows-like App 'Experiences' For Smartphones 74
Phone Maker BLU Settles With FTC Over Unauthorized User Data Extraction 26
Design Commentary on Google's New To-Do Tasks App 85
Google Is 'Pausing' Work On Allo In Favor 'Chat,' An RCS-Based Messaging Standard 146
ZTE Exports Ban May Mean No Google Apps, a Death Sentence For Its Smartphones 139
Chrome 66 Arrives With Autoplaying Content Blocked By Default 88
Google Appears To Be Testing iPhone X-Style Gesture Navigation In Android P 18
Some Android Device Makers Are Lying About Security Patch Updates 116
Google's Phone App Is Getting the Power To Send Spam Calls Straight To Voicemail 85
LG's Upcoming 'G7 ThinQ' Smartphone To Feature Almost-Bezel-Less Display With Notch, Launch On May 2nd 51
Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? 284
Intel Tells Users to Uninstall Remote Keyboard App Over Unpatched Security Bugs 16
Slashdot Asks: Should Android OEMs Adopt the iPhone's Notch? 240
Facebook Is Changing the Way It Stores Call, Text History 55
Google Is Considering Launching a Mid-Range Pixel Phone This Summer, Claims Report 40
Verizon Plans To Launch a Palm Smartphone Later This Year 45
Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google 332
Facebook Acknowledges It Has Been Keeping Records of Android Users' Calls, Texts 97
Google Starts Blocking 'Uncertified' Android Devices From Logging In 179
Face ID Deemed Too Costly To Copy, Android Makers Target In-Display Fingerprint Sensors Instead 129
Facebook Scraped Call, Text Message Data For Years From Android Phones 158
Some Galaxy S9/S9+ Units Have Large Dead Zones On the Touchscreen 31
Best Buy Stops Selling Huawei Smartphones 88
Android Is Now as Safe as the Competition, Google Says 116
Android Wear Needs More Than a New Name To Fight Apple Watch 90
Samsung Will Begin Offering Same-Day Repairs On Galaxy Phones This Week 19
Lenovo Lays Off a Chunk of Its Motorola Smartphone Team 48
Android Beats iOS In Smartphone Loyalty, Study Finds 145
Android P Drops Support For Nexus Phones, Pixel Tablet 86
Google Launches First Android P Developer Preview 42
Chrome 65 Arrives With Material Design Extensions Page, New Developer Features 34
Google Lens Is Coming To All Android Phones Running Google Photos 57
Bad iPhone Notches Are Happening To Good Android Phones 260
Pop-Up Cameras Could Soon Be a Mobile Trend 58
Samsung Announces the Galaxy S9 With a Dual Aperture Camera, AR Emojis 137
Flixster Video Shuts Down 33
The Swype Smartphone Keyboard Is Dead 95
Google Just Launched Another Answer To Apple Pay 138
We've Reached Peak Smartphone 222
FBI, CIA, and NSA: Don't Use Huawei Phones 238
Huawei Got People To Write Fake Reviews For An Unreleased Phone 39
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Benchmarks Show An Incredible GPU, Faster CPU 52
Google's Next Android Overhaul Will Embrace iPhone's 'Notch' 179
Chinese Phone Maker Xiaomi Deletes a Public MIUI vs Android One Twitter Poll After Voting Didn't Go Its Way 61
Android Wear Is Getting Killed, and It's All Qualcomm's Fault 174
Rejoice: Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone Looks To Keep the Headphone Jack Alive 193
Android Messages May Soon Let You Text From the Web 48
Android Oreo Passes 1 Percent Adoption After 5 Months, Nougat Finally Takes First Place 98
Google Enables Pixel Visual Core For Better Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp Photos 22
Chrome OS Is Almost Ready To Replace Android On Tablets 61
LG Settles Bootloop Lawsuit With $425 Cash Or a $700 Rebate Toward a New LG Phone 38
Google Play Removed 700,000 Bad Apps In 2017, 70 Percent More Than In 2016 38
OnePlus Is Again Sending User Data To a Chinese Company Without User Consent 152
Android Can Now Tell You How Fast Wi-Fi Networks Are Before You Join Them 44
Yale Privacy Lab and Exodus Privacy's F-Droid Android App Store is a Replacement for Google Play That Features Only FOSS Apps That Don't Do Any Tracking 60
Google Releases Fix For Chromecast Wi-Fi Crashes 32
Google's Fuchsia OS On the Pixelbook 72
Wine 3.0 Released 153
Researchers Uncover Android Malware With Never-Before-Seen Spying Capabilities 102
OnePlus Customers Report Credit Card Fraud After Buying From the Company's Website 63
Google Pulls 60 Apps From Play Store After Malware Exposes Kids To Porn 49
Future Samsung Phones Will Have a Working FM Radio Chip 215
Samsung Will Unveil the Galaxy S9 Next Month At Mobile World Congress 55
'I Tried the First Phone With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor' 70
Google Rebrands All Its Payment Solutions As 'Google Pay' 69
Google Says Almost All CPUs Since 1995 Vulnerable To 'Meltdown' And 'Spectre' Flaws 269
$30 Unlocked Android Smartphones To Launch in India This Month 82