Whether you have privacy concerns or you just want to freely tinker, these are our favorite alternatives to stock Android.

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 ...

Google has just issued an updated Android distribution chart and it makes for an alarming read. The latest OS — Android 16 — was on just 7.5% of phones when the data was captured in December, while ...

Oppo has periodically updated its software update policy to offer longer software support for its devices. The company now offers up to five major Android OS upgrades to select high-end devices, which ...

Samsung may be one of the biggest names in the Android phone business, but Samsung also offers a handful of phones using its own Bada OS. The Samsung Wave line of devices look a lot like modern ...