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Mobile chipmaking giant Qualcomm has petitioned the U.S. government to let it provide smartphone chipsets to Huawei.

Thanks to withering U.S. sanctions, smartphone giant Huawei this week said that it will have to halt production of its own chipsets.

With Microsoft expected to formally launch the Surface Duo in coming days, some promotional renders have leaked via Twitter.

While I know that the Pixel 4a will never meet my needs, I can’t ignore what I feel is the single-best value in the smartphone market today.

Google today released the third and final beta of Android 11 and says that the final Android 11 release is coming very soon.

An Android blog has obtained what it says are Google internal documents that describe several upcoming Pixel handsets.

Google is expected to announce the Pixel 5 in October, but the firm has taken the unprecedented step of discontinuing its predecessors months early.

Google today announced the release of Flutter 1.20, the next major release of its cross-platform app development framework.

Almost every year, it seems that Microsoft and Samsung extend their partnership on mobile, and this year is no different.

In a move that appears to mimic OneDrive’s Personal Vault, Google’s Files app for Android now provides an encrypted Safe Folder.

Google announced today that it is launching a new feature called Nearby Share on select Pixel and Samsung devices.

After three months of delays, Google finally announced the Pixel 4a, which embodies everything right and wrong about the firm’s hardware efforts.

The wait is finally over, Google has finally announced the Pixel 4a. But the company is also announcing two other phones including the Pixel 5 and the 4A 5G.

The Collections feature from Microsoft Edge on desktop is now available in the Android and iOS versions of the app, Microsoft says.

The Google One app has provided phone backup capabilities to subscribers since last year, but now that’s available for free as well.

A blockbuster report in Bloomberg claims that Google is negotiating with Samsung to obtain more control over the Samsung handset experience.

After several weeks in preview, Microsoft’s new Family Safety app for Android and iOS is now generally available.

Qualcomm Quick Charge 5 can charge a smartphone to 50 percent in just 5 minutes and to 100 percent in just 15 minutes.

Google today announced a free new online course for people without programming experience to learn Android app development with Kotlin.

Microsoft has released a major new version of its Launcher for Android that supports Dark mode, landscape orientation, and much more.

It looks like Microsoft is getting ready to pull the new look and feel of the Microsoft Launcher Preview into the shipping product.

Despite an ongoing attack by the U.S. government, Huawei today announced that revenues grew 13.1 percent in the first half of 2020.

Signal is a cross-platform encrypted messaging service championed by privacy advocates. But I have some questions.

Microsoft has been collaborating with Google so that their tools interoperate and can help developers get their PWAs into the Play Store.

Google today announced the availability of Android 11 Beta 2 and the platform stability milestone at which its APIs are finalized.

Qualcomm is delivering an overclocked version of its Snapdragon 865 mobile SoC for devices that hardware makers will introduce in late 2020.

Samsung revealed last night that it will host its next “Unpacked” event virtually on August 5; it is expected to unveil three new flagship smartphones.