To root or not to root? This is a question that obsesses many Android phone owners. Un-rooted Android phone owners may feel excluded from some of life’s greater technical, gaming or social pleasures.

Jon Porter is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Just over one month after the official release of ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Phones running stock Android are a dying breed. Sure, phones from Google, Motorola, and a few other brands have a stock-like aesthetic, but they add plenty of features you won’t find in a pure, ...

Once upon a time Michael Arrington broke the news that Facebook was developing its own phone. That was in 2010. However in a followup interview with TechCrunch, Mark Zuckerberg killed the notion, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — ROM developers, other groups and individuals interested in standing out from the crowd now have a new option for ...

Install the Official TWRP App from the Play Store to start the installation process. Back up your device and ensure it is rooted before installing TWRP to avoid issues. Use TWRP to try new software ...

Third-party apps can now access the same functionality as Digital Wellbeing’s bedtime mode in Android 15. Bedtime mode is a feature that silences your phone and changes various screen options to help ...

Taking a look back at seven days of news and headlines across the world of Android, this week’s Android Circuit includes Samsung’s mysterious Galaxy, Google and Apple’s contact tracing story, Huawei’s ...

Security updates are reaching Android users faster and more reliably than in previous years. In research published this month, German cyber-security firm SRLabs said the Android patch gap has gone ...

Ask most people what comes to mind when they think of Vevo, and the answer will probably be the massive number of Vevo-sponsored musical artist pages on YouTube. If you watch a popular music video on ...