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The Sony Xperia 1 VI is now receiving the stable Android 16 update. This is the £1,300 phone’s penultimate scheduled Android OS upgrade, despite launching last year. Sony surprised us last month when ...

LineageOS 22.1 based on Android 15 QPR1 is now available for over 100 devices. The latest version of LineageOS brings Android 15 changes as well as a new music player and PDF reader. LineageOS 21 is ...

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Popular with privacy-focused users, Android fork GrapheneOS has been limited to select Pixel handsets, but that's set to change in the next year or so. In comments made on a Reddit post, spotted by ...