How to Back Up All Your Android Messages

SMS Backup and Restore is still one of the best for backing up Android text messages—and in this guide, I'll also walk you ...

Telaeris Delivers the Industry’s First Android 15 Handheld Reader, Advancing Security and Performance for Access Control

Telaeris‘ XPressEntry XPID210 series handheld readers now shipping with a more robust security framework with Android ...
Android Flagship

How to Clone Android Phone: Complete Data Transfer Methods

Switching to a new Android phone feels exciting until you remember everything stored on your old device. Contacts, photos, app data, messages, and settings all need to transfer over. Learning how to ...
Android Authority

Android's clever Quick Share AirDrop solution still has this one big limitation

Google just made Android Quick Share work with Apple AirDrop on Pixel 10 phones. The solution only works for iPhones using AirDrop’s “Everyone for 10 Minutes” receiving mode. Google says that it would ...
ExtremeTech

Google Developing Android's Answer to Apple's NameDrop Feature

Google is working on bringing an iOS-style instant contact-sharing feature to Android phones. According to recent findings from Google Play Services v25.46.31, Google is developing a feature ...
Android

Google’s “Contact Exchange” Is Basically NameDrop for Android — And It’s Coming Soon

Google is developing a new feature called Contact Exchange, essentially an Android version of Apple’s NameDrop. Discovered in a recent Google Play Services teardown, the feature uses NFC to quickly ...
Tidbits

How to Set Contact Avatars and Posters on the iPhone

While writing “Comparing the Classic and Unified Views in iOS 26’s Phone App” (10 November 2025), I commented that the Unified view’s Calls screen was more attractive if you had contact posters for ...
VentureBeat

From shiny object to sober reality: The vector database story, two years later

When I first wrote “Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn” in March 2024, the industry was awash in hype. Vector databases were positioned as the next big thing — a ...
Digital Trends

Google is testing a new way to keep your contacts more private on Android 17

What’s happened? Google is testing a new Contacts Picker in development builds of Android 17. According to Android Authority, the new Contact Picker lets you choose which contacts to share with an app ...
techtimes

Switch from iPhone to Android in Minutes: How to Move Contacts, Photos, and Messages Securely

With more users choosing to switch to Android devices, one of the biggest concerns is transferring personal data smoothly. Whether you're upgrading to a new phone or exploring Android for the first ...
Android Authority

Android 17 is building a new Contacts Picker to keep your address book private

Google is developing a new Contacts Picker tool for Android 17 to fix the current all-or-nothing contacts permission. This tool will allow you to share specific contacts with an app, rather than your ...