The android won a race featuring robots and humans on Sunday in Beijing, achieving a technological milestone while finishing faster than any person in history.

Android phones have gotten pretty fast over the last few years, to the point where faster processors don't really bring about the noticeable speed improvements they used to. So now, the goalposts have shifted over to software — sometimes in places people ...

For the most part, Android phones feel fast in day-to-day use, especially if you're running hardware on Android 15 and above. Of course, that doesn't mean things can't be better, which is why Google is announcing new optimizations to make the experience ...

Mobile gaming has become the largest sector of the gaming industry in the last decade. Within it, Android gaming holds a lion’s share of it, with 72% of users opposed to just 28% of iOS users. Gaming has always been a huge plus for Android mobile devices.

Android has long made setting up a mobile hotspot easy, although the default settings leave you crawling along when the hardware can do far better. By default, Android activates hotspots on the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands and skips the 6 GHz slice that powers ...

Phone held in hand as someone types with software keyboard - Ivan-balvan/Getty Images It's safe to say Android isn't known for its smoothness. It took several attempts to tame its problem with dropped animations, including initiatives like Project Butter ...

Usually, we’re stuck with the crowded 2.4GHz or 5GHz bands for hotspots, which are fine but not exactly speed demons. Now, Google is unlocking the 6GHz band – the super-fast lane used by Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 – for Android hotspots. Pixel owners can ...