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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. State of the smartphone industry 2016: top brands and trends June 06, 2025 Strategy Analyticshas published its latest set of reports into the smartphone industry. The research gives us plenty of information to sift through for global and regional trends, as well as showing which brands are coming out on top and which are struggling to perform in today’s ultra competitive market....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The best tablets at CES 2019 July 13, 2025 Remember when tablets were going to take over and kill the PC? Even a few years ago, tablets were all the rage. However,CES 2019has shown that in terms of portable computing for work, slim notebooks and 2-in-1 convertibles are back in. As a result, pure tablets at CES are harder to find this year, but a few have popped up that got our attention....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Escapists breaks out from PC and consoles to Android on March 2 July 09, 2025 One of the most popular indie games for PCs and consoles is coming very soon to mobile devices. Team17 has revealed that its strategy game The Escapists will be released for iOS and Android on Thursday, March 2. The original version of The Escapists was released in early 2015 for Windows and the Xbox One and has since been made available on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Mac and Linux....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL will eventually support a new LTE band August 01, 2025 TheGoogle Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XLalready support a robust number of LTE bands. That number will soon go up by one, thanks to a software update that will introduce LTE band 48 support. We’re not sure when the software update will arrive....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Witcher Netflix review: 5 things we loved and hated about the TV series July 28, 2025 The newNetflixseries The Witcher has sparked quite the buzz thanks to its sharply cut trailers, and an even sharper-looking Henry Cavill’s stark resemblance to one of gaming’s most beloved characters, Geralt of Rivia. The first instalment of The Witcher series has now landed on Netflix and streaming watchlists the world over....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. True Skate, Exiles, Shadow Blade and more games are free right now on Google Play June 12, 2025 Ever since Google Play finally started allowing app developers to temporarily offer their titles for free, we’ve started seeing more and more games taking advantage of the newfound ability. If you’re looking for a new game or two to waste the weekend with, there’s a few fun titles available for free right now in Google Play....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: Force rotation button is Android Pie’s underdog feature June 04, 2025 This week, we asked you about your favorite littleAndroid Piefeature. We’re not talking about the big stuff like gesture navigation orDigital Wellbeing— we’re talking about the little tweaks that don’t normally make the headlines. We included six of our favorite underrated features in the poll:...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. WhatsApp updates bring notifications, data usage and interface changes July 11, 2025 A series of five updates in 24 hours to theWhatsApp for Androidapplication has bought a range of new features designed to improve experience and reduce data usage in voice calls. As noted byAndroid Police, one key feature bought by the new updates it the ability to add custom notification sounds to individual contacts and/or group conversations....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Mi 9T announced: It’s the Redmi K20 for European users August 05, 2025 We’ve heard about the Xiaomi Mi 9T for a few weeks now, and the Chinese brand has finally decided to take the wraps off the new device. Well, we say it’s new, but we’re actually looking at the Redmi K20. The Xiaomi Mi 9T isn’t quite a 2019 flagship in terms of core specs, but it gets really close anyway....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Yahoo now says all 3 billion of its accounts were impacted in 2013 hack August 21, 2025 It’s much worse than we thought. We already knew that1 billion Yahoo accounts were impacted by a 2013 hack, but new evidence places that number is much, much higher.Yahoois now sending out a notice thatall 3 billion of its accountswere impacted by the breach....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You can now control your Android phone with your facial expressions July 09, 2025 Android has some of the most useful accessibility tools that help people with disabilities make the most of their devices. However, some of theseaccessibility featurescan be pretty handy on any phone beyond their primary purpose. The latestAndroid 12 betalanded with one such nifty feature that’ll let you control your Android phone using different facial expressions....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Your Galaxy S10 might pack Samsung’s new 1 terabyte V-NAND storage June 15, 2025 Samsunghas begun mass producing one-terabyte eUFS 2.1storage, the company announced today. Theannouncementcomes following rumors that the company would introduce aGalaxy S10variant with a terabyte of storage.The high capacity flash storage uses the same physical space as the previously announced 512GB flash found in the high end version of theGalaxy Note 9....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. YouTube unveils 360-degree live streaming with spatial audio July 05, 2025 If you listen closely, that creaking sound you hear is the looming collapse of our entire media model. The future is virtual and interactive with 360 degrees of immersion. Although these technologies have been around for a while, 2016 is proving to be the year in which they all go mainstream....