Android, the popular mobile phone OS, is essentially just Linux with a nice user interface layer covering it all up. In theory, it should be able to do anything a normal computer running Linux ...

An operating system is any software that a device, well, operates on. So when you think back to the basic mobile phones being released through the '90s and 2000s, those feature phones ran on ...

Google’s mobile operating system may have started out scrappy ... on-screen keyboard — something that’d be necessary as phones moved away from the once-ubiquitous physical keyboard model.

The first known mobile phone virus was called Cabir, or Caribe. It was discovered in June 2004 and primarily targeted devices running the Symbian operating system, which was commonly used in Nokia ...

Of course, Android is Linux. However, it's a mobile-first Linux distribution with a smartphone-friendly interface that bears little resemblance to the traditional Linux shell interface, never mind the ...

The company announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that all of its Magic Series phones will receive seven years of OS and security updates. Previously, flagship Honor phones received only ...

If you’re thinking about getting the Nothing Phone, you might be concerned about the level of support you’ll get with respect to Android updates and security patches – here’s everything… READ FULL ...