9to5Google

During my hands-on with Android XR glasses last month, I kept returning to the digital clock that was displayed over the real world. Professionally, I have been waiting over a decade for Google to re-enter the smart glasses space, and everything is lining up for this to happen in 2026.

Google quietly revealed last week that it is adding an option for users to change their Gmail address and it seems a lot of people are excited, but will you change yours?

A decade or so ago, I thought Google needed a newer mission than “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Having never lived without the Search engine, I frankly thought the mission was solved and that Google needed a new aspirational aim. 

The Nothing Phone series has delivered some of my favorite phones of the past few years, with a refreshing but familiar take on Android and smartphone hardware in general, and it’s all culminated in the Nothing Phone (3). I think it’s safe to say this was one of the most polarizing phones of 2025, and it’s also one that I think will serve as a bit of a make-or-break moment for Nothing.

Over the holidays, dbrand has introduced a neat new skin design called “Sketch 2D” that turns your Pixel 10 – and a bunch of other devices – into a real-life cartoon.

Chrome on Android has offered a Reading mode for several years now, and Google is now significantly redesigning it.

The Galaxy Tab A11+ just went official and it actually seems like a pretty decent Android tablet for its $250 price tag.

Oppo appears to be building out another new foldable for 2026, with the Find N6 set to deliver a camera upgrade while also addressing some other key specs.

While the launch date is a fair bit later this year, leaks continue to detail Samsung’s plans for the upcoming Galaxy S26 series. In the latest leak, we’re getting a better look at the hardware and how the Galaxy S26 design is changing.

With the previous round of offers ending last week, the US Google Store is running New Year’s deals ahead of 2026.

The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to end users, while others are aimed at developers.

One thing that I thought we’d see more of in 2025 was how Gemini could control your Android phone. There was the May demo and other underlying work, but we don’t have Google’s complete vision yet.

Samsung hasn’t been particularly quiet about its coming Perplexity partnership, and now we’re getting a first look at the Bixby reboot powered by the AI service.

OnePlus has officially shown off its new “Turbo 6” series of gaming phones while confirming monstrous 9,000 mAh batteries being used in the devices.

Is the curtain falling on big-ticket Android updates? Does a yearly release cycle even matter anymore, or is it just a sign of the times that there isn’t much left to really add to our smartphones?

As the three-year anniversary of Stadia’s death approaches, the final “active” part of Google’s short-lived venture into cloud gaming appears to be going away, as the controller conversion tool appears to actually be going offline this week.

According to a new report, fluctuating costs have left Samsung struggling to finalize pricing for the upcoming Galaxy S26 series, all while the company is losing money every time it sells a Galaxy Z TriFold.

Samsung has announced plans to bring Google Photos support to its TVs, and it sounds a lot like what we already see on Google TV.