Google's mobile platform hasn't been as open as it sometimes claimed.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ewan Spence covers the digital worlds of mobile technology. I’ve spent time with the Shiftphone 8, a smartphone pre-installed with ...

The Google Phone has arrived, sort of, but not in the long-rumored embodiment that many had expected. Google announced this morning that it has developed a new mobile OS called "Android"—a result of ...

Google has made the unusual decision to hold off on publicly releasing the source code for Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb, at least until the company decides the OS is ready to run properly on a wide ...

When the Volla Tablet first launched last year, the 12.6 inch tablet with a MediaTek Helio G99 processor and 12GB of RAM was designed to ship with a choice of two operating systems: Ubuntu Touch or ...

Android is known for its extensive feature set, and it's not uncommon to overlook some great features. Here are some of the ...