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Your Android phone could soon control more of your Windows PC with a tap

This is going to be big

Google Pixel 11 Pro with its rear notification light glowing.
Pixel 11's new search feature made me realize my phone is becoming my digital memory

I stopped organizing my phone because Pixel finally learned how to search

Wi-Fi router with a blocked Google logo above it.
Blocking Google's background tracking servers on my home Wi-Fi saved my phone from constant battery drain

I blocked over 9,000 background queries in a week

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Android phone showing gesture navigation
I tried gesture navigation for a week, then realized why 3-button controls still win

I found one thing that made me switch back

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YouTube Music playing on an Android phone with headphones.
YouTube Music's free tier is enough now that I discovered these Android workarounds

No more subscriptions for me

SD Maid 2 SE AppCleaner showing 5.8 GB of storage that can be freed.
I purged gigabytes of invisible app junk from my phone to avoid paying for cloud storage

Save money on that Google One subscription

A Google Pixel showing a customized Always-On Display.
This Android Always-On Display app fills the gap Google left behind

A customizable Always-On Display turns a passive lock screen into a personal info panel with music and widgets

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Google Pixel 10 Pro held up against a Japanese maple
6 disabled Google Pixel features that every owner should enable first

Google buried some genuinely useful features

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Different Android phone interfaces and home screen styles shown side by side.
There's no such thing as stock Android anymore, and that's completely fine

Stock Android is gone, and that's a good thing

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Two old iphones bumping
Before Tap to Share and AirDrop, sharing contacts felt like a handshake. Now it feels like a prayer
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Before AirDrop-style sharing needed careful alignment, it needed a fist bump. I miss the handshake more than the app

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Android Photo Picker is getting an upgrade that gives users more control over their data

We look forward to it

Top utility tools in Android camera phone
7 built-in Android tools that turn your camera into a full office suite

I cleared my phone of junk office apps using these hidden camera tricks

An Android showing Emergency SOS settings.
My safety shouldn't depend on which Android phone I buy

Emergency protections should work the same everywhere

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I saved money on a car camera by turning a spare Android phone into my daily dashcam

Droid Dashcam makes your Android phone a better dash cam than most dash cams

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Android phone archiving apps.
I finally found the best Android feature for apps I use once a year

I no longer need to choose between two extremes

Google Pixel 10 Pro up against an Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
After years of copying Apple, Android users can stop envying these 4 iPhone features

The iPhone advantages that made people switch in 2023 don't exist anymore

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Unlocator running on an Android phone.
I bypassed streaming site VPN blocks by changing one hidden DNS setting on Android
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A smart DNS and one setting is all it takes to bypass region blocks without needing a VPN

Android phone showing a Private DNS setup with NextDNS.
I ditched AdGuard for Android's Private DNS feature to eliminate background app battery drain

I'll do anything to save battery life

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Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and Google Pixel 8 Pro beneath a seven-year update timeline.
I used to avoid used Android flagships, but 7-year updates changed that

The best Android deal might be someone else's old flagship

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HTC Dream running Android 1.0 alongside the Android logo.
Android turns 18 this year, so I went back to meet it as a baby

I reviewed the first Android phone in 2008. Eighteen years later, I booted its OS on my laptop to see what it promised and what it quietly dropped

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