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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Reply is working on bringing Smart Reply to all messaging apps (Update: download now!) August 01, 2025 Update (02/21/18):Reply is still in testing, but you can download an early version today! The APK has shown up on APKMirror, which you can download at the link below. Original article (02/13/18):If you happen to useGmail, Inbox, Google Allo, orAndroid Messages on Project Fi, you no doubt know (and love!...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Samsung spending $6.82B to increase AMOLED production June 15, 2025 If there is one single component that has been a mainstay in Samsung’s smartphone stable, it’s arguably the SAMOLED displays used in the company’s higher end devices. Galaxy customers seem to love the organic panels, which are well known for having near infinite contrast levels and bright, vibrant colors....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Revolutionary material could cut smartphone display energy consumption June 13, 2025 Smartphone displays are one of the biggest drainers of our precious battery life but a new breakthrough invention being developed by Bodle Technologies could dramatically cut the amount of juice required by future displays in a wide range of gadgets. Rather than an LCD or OLED based displays, this new reflective display makes use of phase changing materials to reproduce vivid colors while consuming very little power....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Chromebook Plus V2 announced, goes on sale June 24 June 02, 2025 Samsung is launching a new version of2017’s Chromebook Pluson June 24 in the U.S. The Chrome OS convertible laptop will be priced at $499.99 and will be available first atBest Buy, in both its retail stores and on its website. The biggest change between the first Chromebook Plus and the V2 model is that Samsung has chosen to use a faster Intel Celeron 3965Y processor in the new version, along with Intel integrated graphics....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 Plus specs leak, teasing a huge battery, larger screen August 20, 2025 After CAD-based renders of theGalaxy Tab S7broke cover early last month, it gave us a pretty good glimpse of what the flagship tablet could look like. Now,SamMobilerevealed what we could expect from the Plus model. The report notes that two tablets will be offered, a standard Galaxy S7 Tab and a Galaxy S7 Tab Plus with the latter sporting the newly-announcedSnapdragon 865 Pluschipset with5Gsupport....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung launches W2016, a Galaxy S6 trapped inside a flip phone body August 13, 2025 TheSamsungW2016 is a Galaxy S6 trapped inside a flip phone body. Or is it the other way? Spotted earlier this weekin China’s TENAA listings, the W2016 has received a quiet official launch. But that’s about the only quiet thing about this flip phone, which features a decadentGalaxy S6-inspired design and an equally outrageous spec sheet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Supercell’s Rush Wars closes its doors after only a couple months (Update) August 20, 2025 Update, June 05, 2025 (12:05 AM ET):After only a couple of months, Supercell isofficially closingRush Wars November 30. According to Supercell, the development team ran into a few roadblocks in determining the future of the game and inevitably decided it was impossible to make it as good as the team hoped....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The $4 smartphone Freedom 251 will run Lollipop (update) July 21, 2025 Update (2/19):Surprise, surprise – people like cheap things! It seems that after getting 600,000 hits per second on its website, the company couldn’t handle all the orders (and accompanying traffic), and so it had to suspend orders for now. Don’t worry though, Ringing Bells (the handset maker) promises to open back orders “soon”....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The EU just handed Spotify a big win against Apple August 16, 2025 If you fire upthe Spotify appon your iPhone and attempt to upgrade to a premium subscription, you’ll be stopped short. The app will simply say, “You can’t upgrade to Premium in the app. We know, it’s not ideal.” See also:The best music streaming apps and music streaming services for Android...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The TicWatch Pro, the smartwatch with two displays, is now available July 18, 2025 If you are a fan of products that look unassuming, yet works like little else out there, Mobvoi’s TicWatch Pro smartwatch is now available from Amazon for $250. The TicWatch Pro’s differentiating feature is its two displays: a transparent and low-power FTSN LCD display on top of an OLED display....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Update: Google Lens in Assistant officially rolling out to all Pixel phones July 12, 2025 Google has just announced that Google Lens in the Assistant will be rolling out to all Pixel phones (Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, and Pixel 2 XL) in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, India, and Singapore “over the coming weeks.” Once you receive the update, you’ll be able to call up Google Assistant and tap the Google Lens icon in the bottom right corner....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Using Android Architecture Components: Lifecycles and SQLite made easy August 03, 2025 With the release of theAndroid Architecture Componentsproject, we finally have an official recommendation for Android Application Architecture, and all the components we need to implement it. The Android Architecture Components project spans a number of libraries, but since Room and Lifecycles recently saw their first stable release, I’ll focus on how to set up and use both of these production-ready libraries....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Verizon rumored to launch its own online TV service this summer July 21, 2025 The already crowded online TV service market in the US may add another competitor sometime this summer. A new report claimsVerizonis going to launch its own online TV package with dozens of channels to binge watch on the internet. The report fromBloomberg, citing unnamed sources, claims that Verizon has been busy acquiring the rights to stream content from a number of TV cable channels for its service....