Most of us use our Android phone’s side buttons only to adjust the volume or lock the screen—but that barely scratches the surface of what they can do. With the right setup, those side buttons can ...

Your Android phone's buttons do more than just control volume or wake the screen. With a few simple tweaks, they can double as shortcuts for snapping quick photos, skipping tracks, launching apps, or ...

Rebooting your Android phone is often recommended as one of the ways to remove any temporary bottlenecks in the phone's performance, as it clears the memory, closes any unused apps running in the ...

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...

One of the star features of the new Nothing Phone 3a and 3a Pro is the Essential Key. It’s a new hardware button that controls an app called Essential Space. Using AI, Essential Space allows you to ...

I love buttons. I like them in cars (sorry, touchscreens), I like them in my games (not sorry, iPad touchscreen controls), and I love them on my phones. I’m apparently not alone in that love for phone ...