What is Android and an Android phone? Android is a Linux-based mobile phone operating system developed by Google. The Android operating system (OS) powers phones, tablets watches and Chromebooks.

Android is perhaps one of the most used Operating System plus framework available for what we call smartphones today. And it is poised to become an all-encompassing framework.

We'd been hearing whispers that Huawei was creating its own operating system for phones, tablets and other smart devices, a precaution in case it lost access to Google's Android software. And the ...

Do you want a phone you can repair yourself and comes with a privacy-first Android operating system? Then you want the Fairphone 3 with /e/OS.

Google LLC today debuted Android XR, a new operating system for virtual reality and augmented devices. The software will initially ship with headsets. Down the road, Google will also enable ...

Interestingly, the Android operating system was not initially designed to be used on mobile phones.

The Android and iOS operating systems have each carved out a dominant space in the smartphone arena. Here are the most biggest strengths and weaknesses of each.

Google may have been successful with Android, but it mismanaged or abandoned other operating systems. Google's smartwatch operating system is a great example of how poorly Google manages operating ...

Nvidia's cofounder, president, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang heaped praise on Google's mobile operating system, calling it "the most disruptive operating system that we've seen in a few decades." ...

A clear reminder of that comes with news of a report claiming that Google's Android has overtaken Windows as the internet's most used operating system.