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Chrome OS 72 Dev Channel brings Android 9 to Chromebooks (plus USB support for Linux apps)

Three months after Google released Android 9 Pie, so few smartphones are running the operating system that Google still hasn’t bothered adding Pie to its Android platform distribution page (about 22 percent of phones are running Android 8.x Oreo, while the rest are running Android 7.x Nougat or earlier — even Android 2.3 Gingerbread has […]

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Google releases Android 9 Pie with new navigation, personalization, and “digital wellbeing” features

The latest version of Google Android is the first to include native support for phones with display cutouts (notches) and dual cameras. So in some ways Google’s software is playing catch up to existing hardware. But in other ways, Android 9 Pie is looking toward the future with new features that could lead to longer […]