In a surprising move, Motorola is teaming up with GrapheneOS to deliver a privacy-focused Android experience right out of the box.

The market of smartphones evolves fast, and sometimes, it's hard to keep up. While some users will be catching new phones every year, others have to keep up with their devices for two, three, or even ...

HTC One M8 is an ideal choice and we are sure that you don’t regret the decision of buying it, but as it always happens, it has shipped with stock recovery software. For those of you who don’t know ...

What’s the first thing to consider when buying a new smartphone? Well, beside its default capabilities (access to the Internet, use social networks, play games, run apps, take pictures and watching ...

Android used to be synonymous with freedom. If you didn’t like your phone’s interface or bloatware, you could simply install a custom ROM — the colloquial term for a forked version of the Android ...

Custom ROMs have been a savior for Android users who want to push the lifespan of their phones beyond official support. Google just made that path much more difficult, especially if you own a Pixel ...

There's some trouble brewing ahead for developers of custom ROMs for Pixel phones. In the midst of a reorganization about how the Android open-source project is run, Pixel ROM devs have been caught by ...

Google is not discontinuing the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but it has made big changes that affect how Android source code is shared, especially for those who build custom ROMs of Android.

OEM unlocking is a setting in Android that lets you unlock the bootloader to customize your phone, but if it's greyed out, you can't do advanced modifications. Common reasons include recent resets, ...

Xiaomi is making it harder to flash custom ROMs with its new policy. Users can now unlock the bootloader of only one device per year. This could immensely slow down custom ROM development; People are ...