HyperOS 3.1 introduces remarkable performance enhancements through its refined runtime and re-engineered kernel. The update is designed to minimize app launch latency by up to 30%, a game-changer for ...

Android 16, which might arrive as early as June, should bring a number of exciting changes and upgrades when it debuts -- but one upgrade is specifically designed to give older phones a boost when ...

As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the new best smartphone, the majority of consumers don't ...

Google’s Pixel phones are known for offering a stock Android experience and using Google’s own Tensor G-series processors. However, their performance has historically been somewhat underwhelming. That ...

Google is making a major change to how Android phones handle gaming. Starting with Android 16, any new phone or tablet that hits the market must support a new feature called Host Image Copy. While the ...

Qualcomm has finally taken the wraps off of its latest and greatest mobile chipset, in the form of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Yes, that's the real name of the new chipset –- and yes, it's ...

How to: Go to Settings > Display on your Android phone. There, you'll find the option to switch between a light and dark theme and to have dark mode turn on automatically at a certain time of day. I ...

After months of waiting, Google is fulfilling its promise to bring a GPU driver update to the Pixel 10 series. As part of the Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 update, the Pixel 10 now runs Imagination’s ...

In brief: You don't normally see software updates significantly boosting performance on phones, but it seems that Google is bucking the trend for the Pixel lineup for nearly every model released since ...

Summary: Qualcomm announced a new processor, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. This chip uses older Kryo cores, instead of Qualcomm’s Oryon ones. It does offer a massive performance bump of 49% compared to its ...