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 ...

The good news? You don’t need to buy a new phone or factory reset your device to get back that smooth performance. Hidden deep in Android’s settings are powerful tweaks that can make your phone feel ...

If your Android is starting to lag so badly you're tempted to throw it against a wall, hold off on spending hundreds of dollars on a new one. Let's be brutally honest: your phone isn't dying, it's ...

That Android phone in your hand might feel like it's operating on steam power, but hold off on buying a replacement. You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars on a new device. The truth is your ...

Nothing gets in the way of using a mobile device more than lag and bogged-down performance. Unfortunately, this is bound to happen with most phones and tablets, but you can take advantage of some ...

A few years ago, we could only send plain text messages with 160 characters. There was no option to include any media or attachments, which kept the messages close to 140 bytes. But the Messages app ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Before you drop hundreds on a new handset ...

If it seems like every few months Google launches a new version of Android, thus rendering your 6-month old phone at least partially obsolete, that’s because that’s exactly what’s been happening since ...