The tablet market appears to be taking a familiar form with Google playing catch up to Apple's first mover advantage; iPad having amassed sales of 2 million following its respective launches on both ...

Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google unveiled the Android operating system 16 years ago today, on Nov. 5, 2007. While it looked barebones at the time, Google's decision to embrace open ...

Amazon has been selling tablets with a forked version of Android called Fire OS since 2011. The current lineup includes a mix of budget and mid-range devices with starting prices between $60 and $230.

Google has officially acknowledged the upcoming merger of Android and Chromebooks, and it may be coming in 2026.

Soon you may be able to use Google’s Android operating system more like a desktop operating system… at least on tablets or other devices with large screens. Google has released a developer preview of ...

Huawei has decided to eschew its Android-based mobile OS and go the route of Apple and Google, which is to create its own grassroots operating system called HarmonyOS 5.0, also known as HarmonyOS Next ...

When choosing between an Android tablet and a Fire tablet, it's crucial to understand the key differences that can significantly impact your user experience. Here’s a detailed comparison to help you ...

The smartphone market is, for the most part, dominated by one decision: Android vs. iOS. In the past, it was possible to have a Windows phone, and today you can have a Linux phone, but Android and iOS ...

Amazon is planning to stop using Android on its entire range of own-brand smart devices, moving instead to a new operating system (OS) developed internally. As Lowpass reports, Amazon has had hundreds ...

This week, a bit of a debate is raging across the Intertubes: What makes one tablet better than another? Is it the tablet’s hardware — the chips, ports, and RAM — or the software, the seemingly ...

Google's Android mobile operating system is open source, which means anyone can, in theory, build their own mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Why, then, are ...