If you can't connect to Google Voice on your phone, there are several ways you can troubleshoot the platform and your ...

If you're ever in a place where you need internet in a pinch, or your home network is down, you can actually rely on your Android phone for a temporary connection. USB tethering allows you to connect ...

Some Pixel owners are reporting that they can't get their phone to connect to Wi-Fi after installing the October 2025 update.

There are several ways to connect your Android phone with your PC, and some work better than others. For example, some methods allow you to read and respond to notifications but don't let you open or ...

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 ...

Turning your phone's connection off and then back on is the quickest and easiest way to try and fix your signal woes. If ...

Android phones are lauded for being feature-rich and highly customizable. However, most of them have a lot of baked-in features that are enabled by default. This is often done to offer a smooth and ...

Android 16 adds stronger default protection for all users. Identity Check helps block access outside trusted locations. Advanced Protection shields against apps, networks, and scams. Although Google's ...

eSIMs are a digital replacement for SIM cards. Despite their advantages over physical SIMs, the technology can be challenging to use. While transferring a physical SIM card between phones is a ...

If your new phone no longer supports SIM cards, or you don't want to use them anymore, you can convert to eSIM instead. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) ...

If there's one thing you should know before buying an Android phone, it's that these bad boys are capable of virtually anything. They are more or less Linux devices, after all. Aside from having all ...

Is your Android phone starting to feel painfully slow? Before you get frustrated enough to drop hundreds of dollars on a new one, let's be real: you probably just need to clean up your digital mess.