Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

ULTRALOQ, the smart lock brand under Xthings, has rolled out a major update to its Bolt NFC lock that extends tap-to-unlock functionality to most Android smartphones. The feature, previously limited ...

We store a lot of sensitive information on our smartphones, which is why security is key. A loophole in Android, though, has allowed access to credit card details with the right NFC hardware, but ...

Google has been on a multi-year journey to kill fragmentation in the Android ecosystem. When I’m talking about Android fragmentation, I’m referring to how there are many, many different ...

Google released Android 15 Beta 1 yesterday, and users who tested it are reporting that the NFC functionality is broken after installing it. There are also other problems related to the stability of ...

NFC, or near field communication, is a popular wireless technology that allows you to transfer data between two devices that are in close proximity to each other. It’s often used as a faster and more ...

New variants of the NFCShare Android malware are being distributed as fake updates for legitimate banking apps hosted on ...

Stripe today announced that it would expand support for NFC payments on smartphones to Android, after launching the functionality on iOS last year. “Tap to Pay” was launched on iOS with the ability ...

Threat actors are getting more creative when distributing their malware as users become better educated and platforms introduce policy changes to better prevent scams. New malware, however, has been ...