Remember the good old days when you knew what version of Android your phone was running by its dessert name? For example, the first phone to be powered by Eclair (Android 2.0) was the Motorola DROID.

This is the first Android OEM after Google to roll out stable Android 17, but the update ships without any new Android 17 features.

Hundreds of millions of Android phones still in daily use can no longer receive security patches, leaving their owners exposed to known software flaws that device makers and Google have stopped fixing.

A new Android Auto update is live for all users. This one took a while, as the beta version received the green light in mid-February, but Android Auto 16.3 is now up for grabs for all users. The rollout happens through the Google Play Store, and this can ...

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Google has ended Play services support for Android 6.0 Marshmallow, meaning older phones may gradually lose the ability to download, update and run apps from the Google Play Store.

Confusingly, Xiaomi calls this version HyperOS 3 - the same name it used for the Android 16 based software. One of our readers wrote to us saying