One area where iOS beats Android is its deep integration with MacBooks, which is to be expected since Apple controls both ecosystems. While tools exist to connect your Android phone to a Windows PC, ...

Google is building Task Continuity, a native Handoff feature for Android to bridge the ecosystem gap with Apple. By integrating the feature at the system level, Google ensures seamless task ...

Most of us rely on Chrome for browsing the web on our Android devices, partly because it's almost always installed by default, and we've become used to it from our desktops and laptops. It has a lot ...

You might sideload an Android app, or manually install its APK package, if you’re using a custom version of Android that doesn’t include Google’s Play Store ...

The $800 Pixel 9 is Google's latest base model flagship smartphone. (Photo by Sam Rutherford/Engadget) For the first half of Android’s existence, Google was happy simply being in charge of the OS ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Lindroid is a new open source app that lets you install a GNU/Linux distro on an Android device and run Linux applications with full support for your phone’s hardware. It does this by putting Linux ...

Android 15 is coming later this year with a host of new features and enhancements. Google has already released a few Android 15 beta builds, revealing exciting things about the new OS. Unfortunately, ...

Tablets have occupied a place in our every day, digital lives for over a decade, but it's hard to argue the dominance of the iPad. In Q4 of 2023, Apple's tablet shipments represented 40% of worldwide ...

Today's camera phones have reached the point where flagship models are almost on par with DSLRs. I can take photos with my phone that easily match and often best those from my Canon. But getting a ...

Let’s be honest, the iPhone vs Android debate isn’t all that groundbreaking in 2024. We’ve all been using our smartphones for years, so we have at least a sense of the ecosystem differences and what ...