Most Android phones ship with preinstalled apps nobody asked for, and several categories of them can be removed without ...

Smartphones, especially Android devices, come preloaded with a lot of bloatware. Some of these apps do nothing but occupy space and use data every time they receive updates. Not to mention that ...

Consumer-grade phone surveillance apps aren’t only intended to stay stealthy; some of these apps are also making it increasingly difficult to remove them ...

Google has the ability to remotely reach out to your phone and remove applications that you’ve downloaded and installed from the Android Market. That sounds scary… and it kind of is. But since Android ...

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Here’s a quick guide to streamlining your app collection — including those you personally installed but never use.