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The Android 15 update is causing some Fairphone 5 phones to become bricked, but only if the fingerprint sensor is broken. A Fairphone rep confirmed stricter hardware checks in Android 15 are to blame.

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Google LLC’s Android Studio got a significant upgrade Monday with an experimental capability that can handle complex developmental tasks by just chatting with Gemini, the company’s flagship artificial ...

Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. In ...

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Samsung started the “megapixel revolution” in the smartphone segment years ago. The company first launched 48MP sensors, reaching 200MP today. A while back, Samsung revealed its ambitions to release ...

A new option coming to Pixel phones in Android 16 is the ability to use the fingerprint sensor when the screen is turned off. In Android 16 DP2, Google is adding an option for “Screen-off fingerprint ...

Biometric security — the ability to unlock your phone with your fingerprint or face — is an amazing feature, but you often have to turn on the phone’s screen before you can use it. That’s because many ...

In-display fingerprint sensors have become commonplace in virtually all Android smartphones, for better or for worse, and five years later we’re finally seeing the ultrasonic variety widely used by ...

The latest Android 15 QPR1 beta introduces a tutorial on how to use touchpad gestures for navigation. Although Google introduced touchpad gestures for navigation in last year’s Android 14 release, it ...

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