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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Several BLU phones have been secretly sending personal data via third-party app July 26, 2025 The unlocked smartphone companyBLUhas now admitted that several of its handsets have been secretly sending out personal data collected from their owners. The data was transmitted via a third-party app that was installed on six of its phones. According toThe New York Times, the security firm Kryptowire first discovered that an app in some of BLU’s phones was transmitting data to a Chinese server every 72 hours....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony extends Marshmallow Concept trial into New Year, releases 6.0.1 August 21, 2025 Sonyhad been planning to bring itsSony Concept Android Marshmallow betato a close later this week. However, the company has decided to continue the program into the New Year, following a very positive experience with testers. The additional time is certainly good news for the tens of thousands of program participants and also means that Sony will have some additional time to collect more feedback and tweak its Marshmallow experience....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Super Mario Run will finally begin running on Android starting March 23 August 05, 2025 Over three months after it was first released for iOS, Nintendo will finally bring its hit mobile gameSuper Mario Runto Android devices worldwide on Thursday, March 23. The launch comes several weeks after another Nintendo mobile game, the fantasy tactical-RPGFire Emblem: Heroes, launched for both Android and iOS in early February....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Tactical RPG Brown Dust brings its gacha mechanics to a worldwide audience June 21, 2025 Having been downloaded over three million times in Asia,Brown Dustis now available as a free download on theGoogle Play Store. Brown Dust puts you in the shoes of a general’s son, whose father led a revolt against the emperor and helped splinter the empire of Brown Dust into four nations....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Roborock S6 is one of the best time savers you’ll find this year August 21, 2025 It’s the holiday season, and the last thing you want to spend time doing is cleaning. Sure, maybe you have company coming over, but that doesn’t mean you need to spend the entire day vacuuming the floors. You should be able to enjoy time with your family as you await your company and leave the floors to yourRoborock S6....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This rollable smartphone concept gives us a taste of the future July 09, 2025 OPPO held its first Inno Day event last year, showing an AR Glass headset and a concept phone with an in-display selfie camera. The firm has now officially kicked off its Inno Day 2020 event, so what did it have to show off this time?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Update: Leaked Xiaomi Mi 5X images leave little to the imagination August 13, 2025 They show the back as well as the front of the device, which will apparently be available in at least three color options: black, rose gold, and gold. You can check them out in the gallery below. [gallery order=“DESC” link=“file” size=“medium” ids=“788415,788416,788417”] Original post:As expected, Xiaomi will soon reveal a new smartphone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: This was the worst year in smartphone history June 05, 2025 There have been quite a few good years in the smartphone industry, with2014being cited as arguably the best year. It’s easy to see why, with the Samsung Galaxy S5, LG G3, and HTCOne M8 all being released in the same year. What about the worst years for the industry though?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Why is the OnePlus 5T priced at $500? June 28, 2025 TheOnePlus 5Tis finally here. Not only does it pack the familiar high-end hardware that fans have come to expect, it also brings a number of tweaks and improvements over the already well receivedOnePlus 5. However, the new release hasn’t passed without some complaints from the series’ fans. The$499 price tagis the highest ever for a OnePlus handset, and considerably more than the company’s $299 debut....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi patent hints at all-curves phone display, which sounds nice but also impractical August 25, 2025 A newXiaomipatent was just unearthed byLet’s Go Digital. The patent describes a smartphone display that is curved on all sides. Imagine the curved sides of aSamsung Galaxy S9but those curves also being on the top and bottom of the device and you’ll have an idea of what could happen....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi reveals foldable phone prototype: Is this the cheap one we’ve been waiting for? July 21, 2025 After years in development, it seems like 2019 will finally play host to commercially availablefoldable phones, asSamsungand others quickly progress in the sector. Now,Xiaomihas shown off its take on the foldable phone, albeit in prototype form. Xiaomi spokesperson Donovan Sung posted a video to Twitter, showing co-founder Bin Lin playing with a prototype foldable phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. (Update: 35 more added) YouTube TV adds 8 more markets, bringing the total market count up to 49 July 24, 2025 We were pretty happy withYouTube TVwhen we first checked it out, but one of the service’s more glaring problems when it launched was availability, or lack thereof. The online cable service was limited to five areas initially: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Philadelphia....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5 things we learned about the Pixel 6 Pro cameras after its latest leak August 11, 2025 We’ve seen a slew ofPixel 6 seriesdetails surface in recent months, in large part due to Google itself. But the upcoming flagships have also been the subject of many leaks, and we’ve gotanother significant leakthis week. YouTuber M Brandon Lee ofThis is Tech Todayobtained a video of the Pixel 6 Pro via a source in Nigeria, showing off a subtly curved screen (skip to 1:57)....