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1 week ago | 
androidpolice.com | Zach Gray-Traverso
We store a massive amount of personal data on our phones. Whether you have a flagship or midrange device, your email, personal photos, credit cards, banking info, and more are accessible from your pocket. While most people take care of their phones physically, they may not pay the same care to keeping their phones updated. A notification letting you know there's an update may go ignored because it takes too much time or gets in the way of what you're doing.
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2 weeks ago | 
androidpolice.com | Zach Gray-Traverso
Pets make the lives of their owners better, whether it's companionship or making the mundane adorable. Either way, you likely love taking and posting pictures of your furry, feathery, or scaled friend using your camera phone. However, posting those pictures may harm you by making your passwords easier to crack. A 2022 study by Aura found that more than 39% of pet owners use or have used a pet's name as a part of their password.
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3 weeks ago | 
androidpolice.com | Zach Gray-Traverso
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1 month ago | 
androidpolice.com | Zach Gray-Traverso
Wear OS smartwatches are great companions for Android smartphones. They have great health tracking features, help you view and answer notifications from your phone, and tell the time. Premium Wear OS smartwatches have additional features such as ECG capability, more durable screens, and LTE capability. While the features from launch are great, Wear OS watches get more features over time through updates.
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1 month ago | 
androidpolice.com | Zach Gray-Traverso
Wear OS became a real smartwatch operating system when Google revived the platform in 2021. While there are fewer Wear OS OEMs than there used to be, the ones still around make high-quality devices that make great smartphone companions. While Google has added great features with each release of Wear OS, it could add more features to make the user experience better. Here are the features I hope Google adds in Wear OS 6.
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1 month ago | 
androidpolice.com | Zach Gray-Traverso
Apple has long reigned supreme in the smartwatch arena, but Google's Wear OS has always been an alternative for Android users. WearOS' popularity has waxed and waned throughout its existence, but lately, there has been a lot of interest and excitement from Google and Samsung. While there may not be as diverse a set of smartwatches as there used to be, the smartwatches that are around make great Android phone companions.
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1 month ago | 
androidpolice.com | Zach Gray-Traverso
Digital wallets are becoming an increasingly popular way to pay on the go. The idea is simple: Why carry a wallet when you can save your credit card to your Android phone? It makes sense and reduces the number of things you need to keep track of. Google Wallet takes this a step further by allowing you to save items other than credit cards to your digital wallet. What items exactly? Read on to find out. 12 Boarding passes Boarding passes are essential for air travel.
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1 month ago | 
androidpolice.com | Zach Gray-Traverso
AI assistants are all the rage these days. Most new flagship smartphone releases focus more on what their included AI assistants can do than the new hardware or physical features. While there are many AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, Claude, and Meta AI, Gemini seems to be the best overall option for Android users. While the others may be better than Gemini for answering certain questions or doing certain tasks, Gemini outshines the rest when used on Android. Here are the reasons why.
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2 months ago | 
androidpolice.com | Zach Gray-Traverso
As technology has developed, so have the ways we interact with it. Instead of writing with a pen or using buttons to move around a screen, we use touch screens with multitouch technology and styluses with hovering capabilities. While these new input capabilities are useful to many people, some users require accessibility features. That’s where features like Guided Frame, Live Transcribe, and the new Chromebook Face control feature are essential.
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2 months ago | 
androidpolice.com | Zach Gray-Traverso
Thinner technology always seems to be the trend. Whether it’s a thinner TV, a thinner laptop, a thinner tablet, or something else, many manufacturers prioritize making their devices thinner over all else. However, the pursuit of ever-thinner devices has reached a point of diminishing returns, where incremental millimeter reductions sacrifice practicality. Phone makers are especially guilty of this.
