Start working on your Android phone and pick up where you left off on your Googlebook, without missing a beat.
Converts your Android phone into an SMS gateway that you use to programmatically send and receive text messages via a simple HTTP API
New: Link an Android tablet, Android phone, or iPhone as a linked device to your Signal account.
The most important links are with the people who matter to you, but if you want two phones, a tablet, and a laptop linked to your Signal account, we’ve got your back.
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Researchers proved that your Android phone is sending data to Google every 4.5 minutes.
Even when you opt out of EVERYTHING.
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin did an exhaustive deep-dive into exactly how much data iOS and Android devices stealthily transmit back to Apple and Google.
Both tech giants are running non-stop telemetry pipelines from your device.
Even when you are not logged into an account. Even when you explicitly opt out of data collection. Even when the phone is completely untouched.
The sheer volume of data being harvested is staggering.
Android sends data back to Google every 4.5 minutes. iOS follows right behind, pinging Apple every 4.5 minutes.
Within the first 10 minutes of powering on a fresh device, Android sends roughly 1MB of data to Google. iOS sends about 42KB to Apple.
When the phones are just sitting there doing nothing, Google harvests around 1MB of data every 12 hours. Apple collects roughly 52KB.
Google is collecting 20x more telemetry data than Apple.
But what they are collecting is the real problem.
The researchers discovered that your phone isn’t just sending generic system diagnostics. It is sending a highly detailed digital fingerprint:
- Hardware serial numbers
- Device IMEI numbers
- Wi-Fi MAC addresses
- Your phone number
- SIM card details
And it gets darker.
iOS uploads the WiFi MAC addresses of every device near you. Your roommate's laptop, the café router, your neighbor's home gateway—all tagged with your exact GPS coordinates.
If just one person in your building enables location services once, Apple now knows where every single device on that network lives. Forever.
The researchers tried to opt out of everything. They turned off location services, restricted background data, and avoided signing into any accounts.
It didn't matter. The data transmission never stopped.
The escape hatch has been welded shut.
Right now, millions of professionals use these devices to handle sensitive business data, proprietary code, and private operations under the assumption that "idle" means "safe."
But the data shows there is no such thing as an offline smartphone anymore.
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Paper: Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring The Data iOS and Android Send to Apple And Google (2021)
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PlainApp: Open-source AirDroid Alternative
Manage Android phone directly in browser — no app, no account, no ads.
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Grok Bot can now do 5 things directly on my Android phone: It can read my calendar, add, move or delete calendar events, look up my contacts, set alarms and timers, and get my location.
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DroidDeck lets you play Steam games directly on your Android phone, without needing a PC to stream them.
The app brings Steam to Android and lets you download and run compatible Windows games on your device, even has a Steam Deck-style interface
DroidDeck uses Proton to run Windows games and FEX to make PC software work on supported Android hardware. It also supports features like upscaling and frame gen.
In tests on a REDMAGIC 11 Pro, Cyberpunk 2077 ran at around 60 FPS, while Skyrim also reached around 60 FPS at 720p.
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Google’s new laptop OS shows lots of promise for Android phone owners, but there’s a long road ahead.