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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ‘Unbreakable’ Samsung OLED panel hints at cracks in Gorilla Glass relationship June 17, 2025 Samsung hasannouncedthat its new “unbreakable” display-pannel has been certified by Underwriters Laboratories after passing military-standard tests. The panel is aflexible OLEDwith an “unbreakable” substrate and a plastic overlay window attached. Samsung’s current high-end smartphones use a glass covered window. The testing involved dropping the panel 26 times from a height of 1....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. (Update: Cool Changer 1C launched) LeEco and Coolpad collaborate again to launch a ‘Cool' smartphone August 21, 2025 Update, Nov 29: The ongoing collaboration between Coolpad and LeEco has borne more fruit today, as the companies have just announced their new Cool Changer 1C smartphone in China. Weird name I know. While the handset bears a number of resemblances to LeEco’s handset range, there’s not much in the way of company branding on the handset,....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Action Launcher update lets you search everything on your device and the internet July 03, 2025 Chris Lacyannounced on Fridaythat Action Launcher version 40 is now available. The update includes a new pillar feature that might rub some people the wrong way — Action Search. As the name suggests, Action Search is a system-wide search option that looks across apps, contacts, the web, and even system settings....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. An introduction to Jetpack Compose for quick Android UI designs August 02, 2025 AtAndroid Dev Summit 2019, Google announced that Jetpack Compose would be making its way into the Canary release ofAndroid Studio4.0. Jetpack Compose is a new tool for designing Android app UIs, which could change the way that we handle layouts across devices. The aim is to speed up development, reduce the amount of code, and ultimately create more elegant and intuitive user interfaces....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Arm Macs: Does Google have a reply for Apple’s all-in-one ecosystem? June 20, 2025 Yesterday, Apple announced its first wave of Mac computerspowered by Arm-based silicon. Tucked away in the unspecified M1 SoC performance claims and dubious charts was a core message that’s likely to upset the status quo. By ditching Intel for its in-house silicon, Apple now has unified control over both hardware and software across its mobile products and now its PCs too....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Asus' new trio of Chromebooks promise not to break the bank July 07, 2025 With moreChromebooksvying for the mid-tier segment of the market with prices to match, ASUS decided to go much cheaper with its new trio of Chromebooks: the 11.6-inch Chromebook C223, 14-inch Chromebook C423, and C523. Starting with the Chromebook C223, the laptop features an 11.6-inch display with 1,366 x 768 resolution and an anti-glare coating, a dual-core Intel Celeron N3350 processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable storage, and a 38Wh battery that should be good for up to 10 hours of web browsing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. AT&T’s new “5G Evolution” is really still at 4G speeds, for now August 02, 2025 Over the past few months there’s been a lot of talk about 5G network speeds, as if they were just around the corner. Well now it is here! Well… sort of. TodayAT&Tis officially bringing its “5G Evolution”to a limited number of customers in Austin, Texas....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best Android apps to wow your friends Jul 17, 2025 When smartphones were still emerging in the tech scene, anyone with a smartphone was considered cool. People would crowd around that person, asking all sorts of questions about what you could do with it. Nowadays, almost everyone has a smartphone and unless you’ve got the newest one released, it’s pretty hard to impress people....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cheaper rates and more data coming to AT&T prepaid plans August 07, 2025 The biggest change is the addition of a new $50 plan that gets you 8GB of LTE data, as well as unlimited talk and text both domestically and to Mexico and Canada. If you enroll in autopay, you get a whopping $10 discount on this plan, bringing your price down to $40....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Did Google just accidentally reveal the Pixel 5, Pixel 4a 5G launch date? August 25, 2025 Google launched the long-awaitedPixel 4ajust a few days back and also surprisinglyconfirmedthat the more premium Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G would follow. Now it seems that Google France may have accidentally revealed the date for the launch of the two new Pixels....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Did the Celeron version of the Google Pixel Slate go to tablet purgatory? July 02, 2025 The good thing about theGoogle Pixel Slateis its processor choices — $599 gets you in the door with a Celeron processor, while spending more gets you beefier processors. The bad news is that the Celeron variant hasn’t been available since, well, not long after the Pixel Slate’s October 2018 launch....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich saves Google $3.6 billion July 04, 2025 And no, these are not some delectable noms. We are talking about the tax loopholes that Google used to save $3.6 billion in 2015. While this is a trick that Google – among many other big corporations – has been using for over a decade now, the amount evaded seems to be increasing each year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Download the 9 new stock wallpapers from Android 6.0 Marshmallow (Preview 3) July 02, 2025 Google has just announced thatAndroid Misnow officially known as Android 6.0 Marshmallow, after teasing the new namelast week. The final build of Android 6.0 Marshmallow isn’t quite ready for the general public, but Google has updated the M preview to version 3, which is the final update until the official release, which will likely happen alongside the launch of thenew Nexus devices....