The latest update to Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 4.1, brings with it new features such as Game Center, TV show rentals, iTunes’ "Ping" social music network, enhanced photo features, and more.

Even if you’re a smartphone pro, there could be a lot to learn in the sections below. But if you’re new to the world of smartphones — or just the world of Android — this is the perfect place to get up ...

For nearly two decades, smartphones have all worked pretty much the same, whether you bought an Apple iPhone or a phone running Google’s Android system: You have a grid of colorful apps that you tap ...

This week at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Nokia introduced a new series of low-cost smartphones for emerging markets that are very important. Nokia, a soon-to-be Microsoft Company, ...

Nothing Phones Now Let You Build Personalized Apps With AI These Essential Apps, available via a new platform called Playground, are the first steps toward 'a new kind of AI-native operating system,' ...

The mobile company’s entry into the country introduces consumers to a new range of smartphones with an operating system that ...

We’ve seen a bunch of efforts to develop free and open source smartphone operating systems over the past decade. But most have relied on at least some proprietary drivers and other software – even on ...

Last week we explored a structural shift that is quietly forming beneath our fingertips. Mobile phone operating systems are evolving from passive launchpads for apps into active orchestration layers ...

Both operating systems introduce new designs, but the real story is what’s happening beneath with A.I. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of ...