A cleaner, faster Android starts with getting rid of these apps.

Your new Android phone comes loaded with features, power, and... way too many apps. Some of these are essential—Phone, Messages, Calendar, Gmail—the ones you actually need every day. Others are ...

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 ...

If your Android phone has become so painfully slow that you're starting to miss your old flip phone, don't rush out to buy a new one. Your phone isn't broken; it's just suffocating under all the ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. 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 ...