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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. World’s first fully modular Android device, Fairphone 2, to arrive in December August 08, 2025 If you were paying very close attention to theAndroidscene, then you mightremember the Fairphone 1, a mid-tier device that put an emphasis on acquiring all of its parts and labor in an ethical way. That meant that everyone who built it earned a fair wage and none of its metal was scraped out of the ground by children or sold to finance an illegal army....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. July 04, 2025 Recently, atApple’s Worldwide Developers Conference(WWDC), the company showed off howFaceTime can work on Android phones. The presentation caused a firestorm of criticism as the “Android” phone used as an example was a non-existent device with huge bezels and a very ugly notch. Apple is notorious for doing this. If you downloadApple’s Beats appfrom the Play Store, it includes an example image of an old Pixel 2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Mi VR headset launched June 29, 2025 This article was originally published at oursibling site, VR Source. The world has reached a phase whereVirtual Realityis on the verge of becoming mainstream. This time around, it is Xiaomi who will be joining the bandwagon of companies that have been developing their own VR headsets. This really comes as no major surprise, since the company first startedteasing about the possibility late last month....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. (Update: live now in the app) Spotify to launch video content on Android this week July 21, 2025 Update, January 26:The Shows section of Spotify – where podcasts and videos will live – is now available in the Android app. You should find it in the Browse section (also known as Now), among stuff like recommended music, Discover Weekly, Charts, and Genres and Moods....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. (Update: SD 810 and 5.5-inch QHD display) Rumored HTCBolt pics leaked July 27, 2025 Original post, October 14:We’ve heard whispers of a new device from HTCallegedly slated to arrive this month, and we even caught aglimpseof its appearance via some leaked rendered promo images last month. However, this is the first time we’ve actually seen pictures of the rumored HTCBolt....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 2021 in computing: The top developments of the year August 19, 2025 After a relatively slow year due to the pandemic and supply chain slowdowns, 2021 saw some massive developments across the personal computing sphere. While the supply chain disruptions haven’t gone away, the developments we saw this year paint an exciting future for computers. Let’s take a quick look at the year 2021 in computing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5 “nostalgia phones” we want to see return July 20, 2025 The return ofNokiaandBlackBerryover the past year has led a lot of us here atAndroid Authorityto dream of other companies and phones we’d like to see come back. Under the HMD banner, Nokia rereleased theiconic 3310and8110under its Classics banner, while BlackBerry brought the physical keyboard back to Android with theKEYone last year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. A look at a Chinese Note 4 sold without Google services: it’s just not the same August 22, 2025 Last week, I mustered up my courage for a unique experience: using a Pink Galaxy Note 4. Ironically however, it wasn’t the color that required any form of social preparedness, rather it was the actual OS the phone was running on: Android....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. A Snapdragon-branded ASUS phone just surfaced online Jun 20, 2025 Anews reportlate last year pointed toQualcommworking with ASUS to deliver Qualcomm-branded gaming phones. The US chipmaker hinted to us at the time that it was just a reference platform. Now, it looks like the phone in question may have surfaced online. China’sTENAAregulatory body has posted images showing a Snapdragon-branded ASUS phone (h/t:XDA-Developers), seen at the top of this page....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android 11 could finally remove an age-old video recording restriction June 08, 2025 2020 is set to be another big year forsmartphone photography. Sensors could getlarger, image quality will improve, newAI photographytricks will likely emerge, but what about video recording? According to the description of a new commit in the AOSP gerrit (viaXDA Developers), Google is updating Android’s media classes to “use (a) 64bit offset in mpeg4writer” which will allow the mobile platform “to compose/mux files more than 4GB in size....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bring Google Assistant to your DIY tech projects, courtesy of new SDK June 22, 2025 DIY tech nerds rejoice, as you now have the opportunity to tinker with Google Assistant’s tech to your heart’s desire. Today the Google Assistant SDK has arrived, meaning that you can now download it and get it up and running on a number of devices, including theRaspberry Pi 3....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Creating stronger OLED panels with the help of graphene August 16, 2025 The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) from South Korea has made a breakthrough in OLED display technology. In partnership with Hanwha Techwin, which was previously Samsung Techwin until December 2014, ETRI has created anOLED displaywith transparent electrodes made out of everybody’s favorite wonder material,graphene. The team has managed to replace indium tin oxide (ITO), which is used to make transparent electrodes in OLED panels, with graphene....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. DJI Mini 2: Now with 4x zoom and 4K, plus more tech news you need to know today July 30, 2025 1. Best new drone: The DJI Mini 2 does it again The newDJI Mini 2has stolen the crown as the best drone you can buy for under $500 …from DJI itself, Jonathan Feist over atDroneRush.comtells me. He’d know, he has one already....