The Odin 3 is one of the most powerful Android handhelds, but AYN just opened the door to making it a beefy Linux handheld.

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

This shouldn’t work—but it absolutely does.

The Linux Terminal app was an unexpected but welcome addition to Android. Now, a Google developer confirms that the Linux Terminal isn't intended to provide a desktop experience. It simply brings ...

The key to this change is a new terminal app that uses the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF). With this app, users can run Linux commands on their Android device through a virtual machine (VM).

Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...

In surprising news from jolly old England, Canonical announces that Ubuntu has developed an Ubuntu for smartphones and tablets. We’ll be able to switch out Android for Ubuntu on many existing devices.

Canonical has launched a new Android app that lets Ubuntu One users stream music from the cloud to an Android device. The Ubuntu One service lets you upload files from an Ubuntu Linux computer to the ...

I test Android phones for a living, but I write about them using a company-supplied MacBook Air. Both platforms are great in ...