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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Mi Fan Festival 2019 makes cheap Xiaomi devices even cheaper July 24, 2025 Xiaomi earlier today announcedMi Fan Festival 2019, a customer-focused event that’s only available to India residents. Of note are discounts onXiaomiproducts. includingsmartphones, speakers, USB cables, and more. Highlights include thePocophone F1for 4,000 rupees (~$58) off ,55-inch Mi LED TV 4 Profor 9,000 rupees (~$130) off, andRedmi Note 6 Profor 5,000 rupees (~$72)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Motion Tennis Cast uses Chromecast and your phone for Wii-esque motion gaming July 05, 2025 The Nintendo Wii proved that interactive living room gaming could be popular with people of all ages, at least for a while. Rolocule wants to bring the same idea to Android, by using your phone at a remote motion controller and casting the gameplay wirelessly to your living room TV....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Motorola could cancel the Moto X5 amid confirmed layoffs June 21, 2025 An anonymous sourcetalking withAndroid Policesaid thatMotorolais canceling development of theMotorola Moto X5, which would have been the follow-up to theMoto X4that came out last year. The news drops amid reports ofa large purge of employeeshappening at Motorola’s Chicago offices. The Moto X5 was never officially announced by the company, but a lot of the details of the device leaked at the beginning of 2018....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nokia 6 hands on August 11, 2025 I’ll be honest, it still feels a little strange checking out a Nokia smartphone and seeing it running Android, but it’s certainly better than the old days of Windows Phone. We recently got the chance to inspect the new Nokia 6 up close and personal, a premium looking smartphone without the premium price attached to it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 7T will charge faster than OnePlus 7 Pro, still no wireless charging July 27, 2025 OnePlushas stood out for years now thanks to its Warp Charge/Dash Charge technology, touting fast charging speeds ever since 2014’sOnePlus One. TheOnePlus 7Tis poised to go even faster though, as company founder Pete Lau toldTechRadarthat it’ll have Warp Charge 30T technology. “We believe that Warp Charge 30T offers the best charging solution for real-world usage,” Lau is quoted as saying....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OpenVX: everything you need to know June 29, 2025 OpenVX is an API enabling software developers to add hardware accelerated computer vision capabilities to their programs. OpenVX 1.0 was announced in October 2014, and now the Khronos Group has announced OpenVX 1.1. Here is everything you need to know. OpenVX who? OpenVX offers something truly unique and beneficial to the world of mobile computing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OPPO is getting into custom chip game, and OnePlus, realme are helping too July 25, 2025 We’ve seen several brands attempt to produce their own smartphone chipsets over the years, with varying levels of success. ButOpposeems to think the time is right for a processor of its own. Oppo’s leadership circulated an internal memo revealing plans for a so-called “Mariana Plan,”CNBetareported....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OPPO R11 press renders and hands-on video leak ahead of launch July 30, 2025 With just ten days left until the official announcement, a bunch of press renders as well as a short video of the upcoming OPPO R11 have leaked online. It was only half a year ago that OPPO unveiled the R9s and R9s Plus, two “flagship” devices which offered impressive camera quality at an affordable price....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Recommended posts are coming to your Instagram feed August 04, 2025 In the past, the social network has used a system to show recommended content to users before. Under that system, users would be required to click over to the Explore section before being presented with the posts. Now, the posts will show up in your normal feed. Instagram is careful to differentiate them so they don’t appear the same as those from people you follow....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: iOS devices have a higher failure rate than Android devices June 15, 2025 Apple just took another hit in the battle against its biggest rival, Google. According to the “State of Mobile Device Performance and Health” report issued by Blancco Technology Group for the third quarter (Q3) of the year, iPhones and iPads are failing at a rate of 62 percent worldwide....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Bixby voice control won’t launch with Galaxy S8 June 23, 2025 We already knew that Samsung’s new AIBixbywouldn’t launch in all territories at the same time. It will support only two languages at release, English and Korean, and we learned just a couple of days ago it won’t hitGermany until Q4. Now, in a statement toVentureBeat, Samsung has confirmed that the Bixby voice control functionality won’t roll out in the US at the device’s launch either, but will follow “later this Spring....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 international giveaway! June 28, 2025 NOTE:This giveaway has now ended.Check out the latest giveaway here. It’s time for the Sunday giveaway! Like every week, we’re giving away a brand new Android device to one luckyAndroid Authorityreader. A big congratulations to the winner of last week’sSamsung Galaxy S20 Plus giveaway, Andriy V. from Poland. The daily email arrives fresh at around 7 a....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s upcoming foldables are tipped for a major price cut June 13, 2025 Samsungis expected to launch the Galaxy Z Flip 3 clamshell foldable and Galaxy Z Fold 3 later this year, and conventional wisdom suggests that we shouldn’t see a major price difference compared to the rather expensiveZ FlipandZ Fold 2. However,SamMobilenow reports that the new foldables could be “up to 20% cheaper” than the previous models....