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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung and Google team up on augmented reality with ARCore June 27, 2025 Samsung is having a pretty big day. We already told you about its announcements regardingBixby and Project Ambienceand how it willunite its Internet of Things platforms. But, Samsung wasn’t done making headlines yet. It also announced a formal partnership with Google to bring the ARCore framework to its lineup of smartphones long-term....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy S8 vs LG G6 comparison June 23, 2025 LG announced its new flagship, theLG G6, last month atMobile World Congressand today, Samsung has unveiled its flagships, theGalaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus. Both point to a near bezel-less future and hope to be a sign of things to come – you’re probably wondering which you should buy, so let’s find out as we pit the Galaxy S8 vs the LG G6....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung reveals its next watch will be circular, opens up SDK to developers July 28, 2025 Samsung has been involved in the smartwatch game for a while now, starting with theGalaxy Gearand moving on to Tizen-powered devices like theGear 2, Gear 2 Neo,Gear S,and the list goes on. When Samsung first jumped into the market, competition was pretty mild. Fast-forwarding to today,Android Wearand theApple Watchhave certainly raised the stakes considerably....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Save yellow blob emoji with machine guns, mine carts and monsters July 13, 2025 WhenGoogle decided to kill off its half-loved, half-despised yellow blob emoji, there were simultaneous cries of defeat intermingled with cheers of victory. If you fall into the camp of the victors, you’re probably not going to want to read this, but if you loved the little yellow blobs and wish there was something you could have done to save them, then this is for you....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Second-gen Android One hitting Turkey with souped-up specs and a significant price hike August 05, 2025 Android Onedevices are coming to Turkey, with a twist. While Google and its local partners offer Android One phones inIndiaand other Asian countries for around $110, the first Turkish model features better specs and a $260 price tag. The first Turkish Android One phone is made byGeneral Mobileand its specs include a 5-inch HD display with Gorilla Glass 4, a Snapdragon 410 64-bit processor, 2GB of RAM, a 13MP rear camera, a 5MP front camera and LTE....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Smartphone growth sees HUAWEI announce a 35 percent revenue boost August 21, 2025 While a number of big smartphone manufacturers have been having another tough year,Huaweilooks to have been one of 2015’s big winners. The company has just announced a few details about its full year profits, which have leapt up by 35 percent on the previous year. [related_videos title=”HUAWEI Products 2015:” align=”right” type=”custom” videos=”648417,643970,637475,651620″]HUAWEI has declared that its full year revenue reached 390 billion Yuan, or USD$60....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony shows off 3D ToF camera tech, but we’ve seen most of this before July 15, 2025 We’ve seenpunch-hole camerasin 2019, but it seems like another trend will be the adoption of3D ToF camerasby some manufacturers.Sonyis tipped to produce most of these cameras, and it’s recently posted a promo video on YouTube (seen above) to showcase the technology. The video shows off plenty of uses for 3D ToF camera technology, dubbed “DepthSense” by Sony....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony Xperia Z4v heading to Verizon with QHD display July 23, 2025 Sony’s latest flagship has only launched in a handful of countries since its quietunveiling in Japan back in April, but the smartphone, or rather the Xperia Z4v, will be heading to the US this summer though Verizon Wireless. As per Sony’s Xperia naming scheme, the Verizon handset will be known as the Xperia Z4v....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony XZ2 Premium now available for the low, low price of $1,000 (Updated) July 15, 2025 Update 08-08-2025 at 5:57 p.m. EST:The Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium is now available from Amazon and Best Buy for a whopping $999.99. We have yet to get our hands on one to tell you whether or not the high price tag is worth it, but we were quite fond of the less expensiveXperia XZ2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Teardown finds dangerous battery design to blame for Galaxy Note 7 fires July 24, 2025 While we wait forSamsungto publish the results of its official investigation into theGalaxy Note 7fires andsubsequent recall, a new teardown fromInstrumental,completed with a fire extinguisher at hand, gives us our clearest look yet at what went wrong with the Note 7. In short, Samsung engineers didn’t allow enough internal space for the handset’s large battery, leading to a pressure build-up,short-circuit, and fires....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The best new audio products at CES 2021 August 13, 2025 CES 2021breaks precedence, as it’s all virtual. The booths, the briefings — everything is online, but the products are very much real. From creative software to eyewear attachments, these are the best new audio products of CES 2021, as voted by our editorial team. Sony 360 Reality Audio Creative Suite Sony announced its new creative suite plugin, compatible with popular digital audio workstations (DAWs)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The BlackBerry Key2 LE will cut the price by knocking down some specs June 20, 2025 Earlier this year,TCLlaunched theBlackBerry Key2, the follow-up to last year’s surprisingly well-receivedBlackBerry KeyOne. Now, viaAndroid Police, we have our first look at the cheaper version of the Key2 – the BlackBerry Key2 LE. The hallmark feature of the Key series – the physical keyboard – is still here on the BlackBerry Key2 LE....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The first 1-inch camera smartphone from a major firm is now official August 08, 2025 It seemed improbable a few years ago that a smartphone would pack camera sensors equivalent in size to dedicated shooters. Now, it seems that Sharp, partnering with Leica, has achieved this with its Aquos R6 flagship. Sharp’s latest device features a rear camera array headlined by a 20MP 1-inch primary camera sensor....