Android Archive

Do you use mobile payments? [Poll of the Week]

Last week’s poll summary: Out of over 1,800 total votes, 32.3% of our readers said their favorite announcement from CES 2017 was

What is the BBC micro:bit – Gary explains

The BBC micro:bit is part of an initiative to get kids coding, primarily in the UK, however its influence is starting to

The Ricoh R spherical camera is designed for 360-degree live streaming

Under the new “ruggedized” chassis are internals that mark an improvement on the predecessor in almost every way. The output stream is

Honor 6X hands-on preview: Great hardware desperately waiting for a software update

Honor is still attempting to make strides in the U.S., but is the 6X compelling enough? You really have to hand it

BlackBerry ‘Mercury’ hands-on: Riding into 2017 on a phone with no name

Under the new direction of TCL, BlackBerry’s smartphone business is poised for a relative revival. It’s no big revelation to say that

Unity introduces its Vulkan renderer for Android

The Vulkan API is promising exciting new things for mobile gaming and 3D application development, and today the company behind the popular

Third party speakers may help Google Home take on Amazon Echo

As we gear up to Google’s launch event in San Francisco next week, eyes are not only on the company’s new line-up

Latest Oculus VR update linked to heavy battery drain on Samsung phones

In theory, app updates are meant to bring bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as new features. Unfortunately, for all the

Android apps on Chromebooks: don’t assume immediately magic

Nicely, gang, it’s actually occurring: the entire Google Play store of Android apps is beginning to reveal up on Chromebooks. We first

New name, renewed focus: Introducing Android Intelligence

My, oh my — how far we’ve come. Six short years ago, I started an experimental little column about an up-and-coming operating