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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Are email addresses case-sensitive? Here’s what you need to know May 31, 2025 The username part of an email address can sometimes have numbers and special characters. But what if someone gives you an email address with a combination of upper-case and lower-case letters? Will that email address work if you send it an email? Or does all of the email address need to be lower-case?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Blackberry Key2 gets a bold new color, priced at a whopping $750 August 12, 2025 Blackberry isn’t quite ready toshow off the Key3, but today it unveiled a new variant of theKey2as a consolation prize. We had the opportunity to go hands-on with the Key2 Red Edition in its bolder new color. The Key2 Red has an identical design to the standard edition, aside from the new and livelier red color....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Check out the Cardinal Red variant of the Galaxy S10 (Update: Galaxy S10e, too) July 11, 2025 Update, July 01, 2025 (10:15 AM ET):When the article below was published, we had reached out to Samsung to confirm if the Cardinal Red colorway would come to all versions ofthe Galaxy S10 familyor just theSamsung Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus. Unfortunately, Samsung never got back to us....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Chrome for Android no longer merging apps and tabs by default June 25, 2025 Quick show of hands, how many of you actually liked when Chrome began populating the recent apps menu with every single one of your open tabs, starting with Lollipop? I suspect that not many of you put your hands up, probably because you didn’t like the feature at all, or you realize I can’t actually see you put your hand up anyhow....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Court documents allege Google hid privacy settings on Android June 02, 2025 Google made a number of privacy-related announcements atGoogle I/Oearlier this month, such as a new privacy dashboard on Android and the quick-fire ability to delete the last 15 minutes of your web browsing activity. But recently unearthed court documents have revealed that Google actually made it tougher for Android users to find popular privacy settings....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Does Google really need a retail store? July 08, 2025 Googlehas a new brick-and-mortar store in New York City. Though Google has experimented with pop-up stores in the past, it is calling this new establishment its “first” store, named the Google Store NYC. The store is located on the first floor of the company’s New York headquarters building on 9th Avenue....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook unifies its hardware efforts as mysterious ‘Aloha’ device readies for primetime June 13, 2025 Facebookmight be getting serious about streamlining its consumer products, with the social network announcing it will unify all of its consumer hardware efforts under one roof that will be led by Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth. According toBusiness Insider, Bosworth will lead Facebook’sOculusVR and Building 8 divisions....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fastest charging cables for the HUAWEI P30 Pro June 05, 2025 TheHUAWEI P30 Prois the current flagship device for the China-based smartphone maker. Among other things, it has a large 4,200mAh battery and it supports HUAWEI’sSuperChargetechnology. That means that wired battery charging on this phone can go as high as 40W. Even with such a large battery, you can charge up the phone with the included 40w wall charger from zero to 70 percent in about 40 minutes or so, and all the way up to 100 percent in just over one hour....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fortnite Mobile: When is it coming to Android? (Updated) July 13, 2025 Fortniteis the biggest game in the world right now and could become one of the biggest games of all time. It has tens of millions of players around the globe, and that looks sure to grow as it expands across gaming platforms. Fortnite Mobile is coming to Android, but when?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S7 will feature Snapdragon 820 in US and China, Exynos elsewhere: Korean report August 22, 2025 Qualcommhas reportedly secured SoC orders for certain versions of theGalaxy S7, coming in “early 2016.” The report comes fromElectronics Times, a trusted Korean publication, viaReuters. Citing anonymous industry sources,Electronic Timesreports that Samsung is once again going to use a mix of Qualcomm and Exynos SoCs for its flagship phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google accused of tracking Incognito mode data, facing class action lawsuit July 24, 2025 A class action lawsuit against Google was filed on Tuesday. The plaintiffs are upset that the company is allegedly tracking their browsing habits during private browsing sessions in Incognito mode. The class action, which was filed in the District Court of Northern California, accused Google of tracking and collecting browsing history without gaining permission from users, as reported byZDNet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google actually tried with the Pixel series and it’s working June 06, 2025 Google has been one of the perennial underachievers in the smartphone space for several years now. In fact, the firm had eitheracknowledgedthat its recent devices have delivered lower year-on-year sales orignored sales altogetherduring earnings calls. This changed in its Q4 2021 earnings call (h/t:Seeking Alpha) earlier this week, when Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai revealed some welcome news:...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Assistant will expand to more third-party speakers and appliances this year June 23, 2025 Google Assistantlaunched less than a year ago, but Google’s entry into the digital companion race is planning to expand its reach into more third-party products. Today, as part of theIFA 2017trade show in Berlin, Google revealed that Assistant would soon be supported by a number of connected speakers besides its ownGoogle Homeproduct....