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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Trips is a new smart travel app that will help plan your next vacation July 25, 2025 Way back in April 2016, Google beganbeta testing an appcalledGoogle Trips– an all-in-one travel app that organizes your essential information in one place. Now after five months of beta testing, Google Trips is now official. If you’ve ever planned a vacation or trip of any kind, you’re probably aware that keeping all the details straight can be a little difficult....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google will shut down Stadia game studios to help the service last July 10, 2025 Google is determined to keepStadiagoing, and that’s leading it to make some hard choices about the games it supports. The internet giant hasannouncedthat it’s “winding down” Stadia game studios to help it focus on the cloud-based service and its growing partnerships. The company is ending investment in Stadia Games and Entertainment’s exclusive titles outside of “near-term planned” projects....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Hearthstone expansion Whispers of the New Gods emerges April 26 (Update: now live!) June 04, 2025 As noted below, this new expansion brings 134 new cards, as well as a number of format changes and classic card changes. If you’re interested, simply fire up Hearthstone on your mobile device and start playing! Original post (4/19):The World of Warcraft-themed virtual card collecting/battling gameHearthstonehas been an absolute runaway smash hit, to put it mildly....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR resumes ties with Qualcomm and others after HUAWEI split (Updated) June 23, 2025 Update: August 24, 2025 (2 AM ET): HONOR has signed partnerships with Qualcomm and Intel, the firm announced on Friday. It also now has independent deals with Sony, Samsung, MediaTek, AMD, Microsoft, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology, the company noted on itswebsite. “The last five months have been an extremely difficult but meaningful time for HONOR,” HONOR CEO George Zhao was quoted as saying byReuters....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to get the new Android N emoji on almost any phone June 30, 2025 We know how you guys are with waiting, so we thought you’d like to know that the folks over at Gadget Hacks have shared a flashable zip of the new Android N emoji. The emoji are based on the as-yet-unpublished Unicode 9.0 standard, so you’ll legitimately have emoji that no one else has except for those with theAndroid N developer preview 2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI Mate 8 review August 15, 2025 Huawei Mate 8 What we like What we don’t like Our scores This review has been written byNirave Gondhiawith the video review (above) byJoshua Vergara. Be sure to check out YouTube as well, where you can watchthe video in 4K! The rise of Chinese manufacturers over the past two years made it inevitable that Google would eventually choose one of them to make its flagship handset and last year saw HUAWEI team up with the search giant on the Nexus 6P flagship....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. It looks like there will be no Nokia flagship this year July 23, 2025 Call it the curse of the pandemic or plain old mismanagement, but it looks like theNokia 9.3 PureView, or whatever the company’s next flagship is called, will not make it to market this year. According to tipsterNokia Anew, the successor to theNokia 9 PureViewhas been delayed until next year, specifically the first half of 2021....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Kindle Paperwhite finally gets updated with a bigger screen, USB-C, and more August 16, 2025 Ahead of next week’sAmazon hardware media event, the retailer is already announcing a new version (three new versions, actually), of its most popular e-reader. The 2021 Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (viaThe Verge) includes a bigger screen and much more. Read more:Best e-readers The standard Amazon Paperwhite display is going up from 6in to 6....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Latest Open Betas for OnePlus 5/5T remove Clipboard, add iPhone X-style navigation gestures on 5T August 06, 2025 Rejoice,OnePlus 5and5Towners, for a new Open Beta is available for your phones and includes an interesting mix of additions, subtractions, and fixes. First up is the removal of the Clipboard app, which debuted on the OnePlus 5T just two weeks ago. The idea was for a little window to pop up whenever you copied something....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG’s G7 ThinQ Android Pie beta signals it’s cracking down on slow updates July 22, 2025 LG G7 ThinQusers in Korea are now able to test out an early build of Android Pie. LG opened up its Piepreview programin the region earlier today, but it’s currently restricted to Korea. The fact the Pie preview build is already being tested suggests LG G7 ThinQ users will not have to wait as long for the phone’s first major OS update asLG G6users did....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Looks like we won’t have to wait for the Galaxy S10 for a triple camera Samsung phone July 12, 2025 Samsung recently promised that it would start bringingnew technology and innovation to its mid-range phonesbefore its flagships. It certainly looks like the South Korean giant will be staying true to its word if today’s Galaxy A7 (2018) leaks are anything to go by....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. New Galaxy Note 8 leak points to 3,300 mAh battery, dual 12 MP rear cameras July 09, 2025 The official announcement of theSamsung Galaxy Note 8is just a few weeks away, but it looks like the hardware specs of the latest entry in the Note series maybe have been leaked. If the report is accurate, it would seem to agree with most of the previous rumors about the upcoming large stylus-based phablet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nokia brings back its Pro Camera mode from the dead for its Android phones June 18, 2025 As forgettable asNokia‘s Windows Phone days were, they introduced several smartphones whose cameras were more capable than anything else on the market. That was partially thanks to the Nokia Pro Camera mode, which introduced pro-level manual controls and was thought dead after Nokia’s unceremonious exit from the Windows Phone market....