Samsung is done with all major flagship phone launches for 2024. It started the year by announcing the Galaxy S24 series and followed it up with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 launch in July. The company might launch the Galaxy Z Fold 6 Slim later this year, but its limited availability will make it a niche device. Unsurprisingly, the rumor mill has now turned its attention to the next big thing from the Korean company: the Galaxy S25 Ultra. A new leak has now detailed the phone's screen size and the reduced bezel size.

Like its desktop counterpart, Google Chrome is among the most popular web browsers for Android. Despite being resource-hungry, it's the preferred browser for many thanks to its seamless syncing of tabs and history across your devices. Plus, Google regularly updates Chrome with new features and enhancements to deliver a better experience. Despite all this, Chrome for Android has stuck to its old 'Chrome sync' model, where you must manually enable data syncing after logging into your Google account. 15 years after its introduction, Google is finally doing away with this approach.

Slowly but steadily, Google has been working on integrating Gemini into all its popular services. The company was spotted developing Gmail's free Gemini integration in May this year. A month later, Gemini-powered summarizations rolled out in Gmail, making it easy to go through huge email chains quickly. Now, it appears Google has started rolling out even deeper Gemini integration in Gmail, allowing you to use the AI chatbot to help draft emails, change its tone, and more.

Like clockwork, Google has been rolling out monthly security patches for its Pixel Watch lineup. Initially, the watch's update used to go live a few days after the Pixel phones. But for the second consecutive month, Google has made the Pixel Watch's monthly security patch live ahead of its phones. Similar to the July 2024 patch, the August patch for the Pixel Watch only contains patches for known security vulnerabilities, but there's a twist.

As a photographer, you can find plenty of Android apps to up your editing game. But your options are limited if you want a third-party camera app to replace your phone's built-in app. There's a reason why third-party camera apps are so bad on Android. In April this year, Blackmagic known for its high-quality digital film cameras and DaVinci Resolve previewed the Blackmagic Camera for Android at NAB Las Vegas, promising to bring professional video controls to the best Android phones. Two months later, the app is now live on the Play Store.

Thanks to cross-platform availability, handy editing tools, seamless sharing, and AI add-ons, Google Photos is the best app to manage your ever-growing media library. While Google Photos is free to download and use, the backup storage isn't. You get 15GB of free space, which is spread across Gmail, Google Drive, and device backups. While it's sufficient to get started with Google's services, you will run out of space soon if you snap and back up a lot of pictures and videos using one of the best camera phones.

Even if you don't do much on your smartphone, a couple of apps may be running in the background on your Android smartphone. Whether you check your email on your phone or use it to find directions, you may not think of quitting these apps when you're done using them. This can negatively affect your handset's performance, especially if it's a budget phone. Android makes it easy to identify and quit apps that are actively running on your phone without accessing complex menus. The list of active apps is viewable from the Quick Settings menu. Follow this guide to learn how.

Admittedly, the best Android tablets are nowhere close to delivering the same experience as iPads. But Google has been working hard to bridge that gap, optimizing the OS for both foldables and tablets. While last year's Android 14 was light on tablet-focused changes, it did introduce several useful usability, performance, and security features. Turns out, Google also made a small change to vastly improve the multitasking experience on tablets running Android 14.

Google's first foldable — the Pixel Fold — got a lot of things right, like a usable exterior screen and reliable cameras. But for $1,800, the Pixel Fold felt expensive for what it brought to the table, especially since it was rough around the edges and inferior to its competition. Still, if you have your heart set on buying Google's foldable, a solid deal takes a whopping $500 off the phone, dropping its price to as low as $1,300.

One of the major issues with the Pixel Watch 2 and its predecessor is that they are only available in one 41mm casing size. This makes the watch unsuitable for people with large wrists, as it looks comically small on their hands. Rumors from early January 2024 suggested Google was potentially working on two sizes for the Pixel Watch 3. A new report now sheds more light on Google's 2024 smartwatch lineup and reveals tidbits about the Pixel Buds Pro 2 as well.