The unassuming proximity sensor, a tiny component nestled within your smartphone, plays a crucial role in ensuring a seamless calling experience. It detects the proximity of your face during calls, ...

Modern smartphones are way more powerful than most of us realize, and they include a whole range of sensors that tend to go unnoticed. While a lot of these sensors are used to pull off basic functions ...

If you’re looking to update to Android 14’s latest beta release, you may want to be cautious, as the update has broken the fingerprint sensor for some Pixel owners. The update to Android 14 Beta 3 has ...

A new option coming to Pixel phones in Android 16 is the ability to use the fingerprint sensor when the screen is turned off. In Android 16 DP2, Google is adding an option for “Screen-off fingerprint ...

Android 15 is the latest version of Android you'll find on retail devices, but Google is already running a public test of Android 16. The second developer preview has just been released with a raft of ...

This free Android app turned my phone into a 35-tool measuring tool - and I tested everything ...

Dhruv Bhutani has covered the Android ecosystem since 2010, with a focus on smartphones, connected devices, and home networking. His reporting is informed by hands-on experience reviewing hundreds of ...