The first SMS was sent in 1992, when an engineer of an IT service company based in the U.K. sent it to his colleague to wish him a Merry Christmas. One year later, Finnish company Nokia released the ...

Google has announced improvements to the Pixel Studio app on the Pixel 10 phones. The image generator app now uses Google’s Imagen 4 model. The app also offers improved editing tools and new studio ...

A free Android VPN app with 1M+ downloads was caught hosting its service on Windscribe-stolen VPN servers JetVPN allegedly began using Private Internet Access (PIA) servers after Windscribe blocked ...

Among all of the software goodies introduced on the Pixel 10 series, one of my personal favorites is the new “Screen Saver” feature. When your Pixel 10 is charging, Screen Saver can display the ...

Do you like writing software for Android, perhaps even sideload the occasional APK onto your Android device? In that case some big changes are heading your way, with ...

I've been playing around a lot more recently with LLMs running locally on my PC, and for the most part, that's been with Ollama. Ollama is a fantastic tool that makes it extremely simple to download ...

For those who hate repeatedly entering usernames and passwords, some of the biggest online companies are pushing an alternative: passkeys. Passkeys work by using a pair of unique mathematical values—a ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...