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Android Central's best of 2025 awards: The best phones, smartwatches, tablets, apps, and more

Here are Android Central's Best of 2025 award winners! Congrats to everyone who has won!
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My OnePlus 13 Has This Amazing Feature That More Android Phones Really Need

I switch phones quite frequently. My current favorite is the OnePlus 13 because in addition to packing exceptional hardware, it also offers a decades-old feature: an IR blaster. I find this ...

I've had enough of my stuttering, laggy flagship Android phone

That said, a brand new expensive smartphone with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, 12GB of RAM, a 1-120Hz refresh rate ...

The first 7 apps I always install on a new phone, and none of them are social media

The apps I need before I start scrolling ...
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5 Free Android Apps You Should Always Install First On New Phones

There is no dearth of Android applications, from millions of options in the Google Play Store to thousands in popular third-party stores, such as F-Droid. You'll be spoiled for choice. But this choice ...
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My 4-step routine to make any Android phone operate like new again (and reliably)

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the ...