Sometimes, getting to a specific feature or function, such as, say, locking my car remotely from the myBuick app or getting to the Selling section on eBay to check my auctions, in an Android app … Read More
The Five Best Android Antivirus and Security Apps
When you’re at the top of the heap, a big fish in a big pond, or however you’d describe the largest operating system in the world, you’re a target for exploitation. Crooks, hackers, malcontents, and … Read More
Navigate Easier with Android’s Smart Text Selection and Selected Text Magnification
For some, especially those of us in the approaching-the-over-the-hill gang, working with text on our phones can be cumbersome. Because smartphone text itself, context menu entries, and all the other tools for working with text … Read More
How to Configure Do Not Disturb Settings on Android
By default, Android’s Do Not Disturb (DND) does exactly what you’d expect the so-named feature to do—no matter what app, call, email, or text message tries to find you, the operating system (OS) waits until … Read More
Increase Convenience and Productivity with Android’s Picture-in-Picture Mode
While Android operating system (OS) advocates have, for the past couple years now, been touting picture-in-picture (PiP) as a new and … Read More
The 10 Best Budget, Midrange, and Flagship Android Phones for 2019
Since most Android smartphone makers, especially the leading manufacturers, update their wears annually and at varying times throughout the year, writing an up-to-date comparison of the top models is a bit of a juggling act.… Read More
Android Pie (version 9) Review – The “Techie” Smartphone OS Gets Smarter and Friendlier
Pros
- New Material Design API rules should make for better, more consistent apps going forward
- Improved battery life and battery saver
- Smart rotation button is simple but ingenious
- Digital Wellbeing is the Alcoholics Anonymous for
10 iOS Launchers for Android to Alleviate Your iPhone Envy
While it’s true that Android devices dominate the smartphone market, the users of iPhones seem to have a much more fervent love affair going with iOS than do the users of the world’s most popular … Read More
A More You-Compatible Smartphone with One of The 10 Best Android Launchers of 2019
One of Android’s most popular features, and undoubtedly a primary reason for its dominance of the smartphone market, is the operating system’s (OS) limitless customization options. Personalization possibilities abound, at both the default OS level … Read More
Microsoft Launcher Brings Windows Integration and a Lot More to Android
Android smartphones are capable of many things that you just can’t do on Apple’s iOS (iPhone) devices. One of the slicker Android-only features is the ability to change how your device looks, feels, and behaves—a … Read More