Android 11: Release Date, New Features, Updates

New Android OS Rollout Still Very, Very Slow According to Data

Tim April 11, 2022 6

Back in the day, Google used to be very good about providing distribution numbers for Android. We'd see a pie graph with a breakdown of each OS version's portion of the pie. For us, it was a great way to see how well newer versions of Android were being...

Surface Duo Receives Android 11, Finally

Tim January 24, 2022 8

Holy moly, the Surface Duo is getting Android 11 right now! As you may already know, we've given Microsoft a hard time due to its lack of software support for this $1,400 device, but finally, we can put this issue to bed. That is, until it's time for Surface...

Entire NVIDIA SHIELD TV Lineup Gets Experience Upgrade 9.0 (Android 11)

Tim January 12, 2022 10

We like to semi-seriously joke around that Samsung is the king of Android updates. When it comes to phones, sure, that's mostly agreeable. When it comes to Android TV-powered set-top boxes? It's not even close, with NVIDIA continuously churning out updates for...

Microsoft Didn’t Fulfill Its Surface Duo Android 11 Update Promise

Kellen December 31, 2021 13

Microsoft made a promise a couple of months back that it was going to update its $1,400 Surface Duo device to Android 11 before 2021 ended. Unless something changes over the next several hours, they will fail to do so. That's both unsurprising and pathetic. I...

Surface Duo Should Get Android 11 This Year

Kellen September 23, 2021 5

I was going to spend this post dunking on the Microsoft Surface Duo (again), a flawed product that will soon be replaced by the Surface Duo 2, but I'm tired of dunking on it. You all know how bad it is. So let's instead make this quick and talk about the...

Billions of Android Devices Soon Getting App Permissions Auto-Resetting

Tim September 17, 2021 9

With Android 11, Google introduced a feature for apps that reset their permissions after a certain amount of time if the app wasn't being used. After all, there's no reason for an app to have access to media/storage, your microphone, and/or your camera if you...

Android 12 Should Be Here Any Day, So Motorola is Updating the Razr to Android 11

Kellen August 13, 2021 25

I thought it was a typo or a misprint at first, but then I looked at the date. Motorola really is updating the Razr 5G on Verizon to Android 11 today. I said Android 11 in case you missed that, a build of Android that Google released, well, almost a year ago....

OnePlus 6 Gets Its First Android 11 Beta

Kellen July 9, 2021 5

The OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T are aging phones, yet OnePlus is still providing them some level of support. At 3 years old, OnePlus continues to send updates to each, even if those updates might not be coming as fast as owners may like. This week, OnePlus made...