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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Verizon Wireless sends Connecticut woman a $42k bill August 04, 2025 As we have discussed on a number ofprevious occasions, consumers around the world continue to be hit with unexpected and expensive data roaming charges, commonly referred to as “bill shock”. We have seen withstoryafterstoryafterstorythat consumers are still being hit with high bills (sometimes ranging in the thousands of dollars) that they did not expect and in many cases did not deserve....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: Here’s how you really feel about water-resistant phones June 15, 2025 These days, most flagship phones — from theGalaxy S21 trioto theOnePlus 9 series,OPPO Find X3 Proto theMi 11 Ultra— come bearing official water resistance ratings. Naturally, if you’re paying top dollar for a phone, you expect it to be able to survive accidental splashes, rain, or that god-forbidden drop in the can....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Win a Qualcomm® Snapdragon™-based Samsung Galaxy S10 August 10, 2025 The Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform is one of the fastest processors you’re able to get inside your smartphone. You may know that already. What you may not know is, as a big bonus for our readers, Android Authority is giving you a chance to win a smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 855, such as the Samsung Galaxy S10, each week for the next three weeks....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. With no notch in sight, the ASUS ZenFone 5Q boldly ventures toward the US in late July June 21, 2025 Announced duringMWC 2018back in February, theASUS ZenFone 5 Liteis finally available for pre-order in the U.S. as the ZenFone 5Q. The ZenFone 5Q features a high-sheen finish around back and the same appearance as the regular ZenFone 5, with the main difference being the former’s lack of a notch....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi in 2020: Up for the challenge July 01, 2025 2019 was an interesting year forXiaomi. For most of its history, the company has been relatively unchallenged in the value for money segment. Outside of a few breakaway attempts at climbing up the value chain, the company’s Redmi series remained its bread and butter. It was a year of reinvention for Xiaomi as it worked on revamping the principle line-up amidst stiff competition all while flexing its engineering prowess via bold, new, future-facing concepts....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi’s next flagship might finally feature wireless charging June 08, 2025 It appears that Xiaomi has officially joined the Wireless Power Consortium, which means that its next flagship might be the first Xiaomi device to feature wireless charging. I’m sure you’ve heard of theWireless Power Consortium: formed in 2008, its mission is to create and promote wide market adoption of the Qi wireless charging technology....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Your smartphone might get ‘smart’ RAM soon July 02, 2025 Machine learningis used in plenty of smartphones today, helping out in everything from system performance and translations to voice commands and camera quality. Now,Samsunghas announced that it’s bringing similar smarts to its RAM modules for smartphones. The company revealed that its processing-in-memory (PIM) technology is coming to RAM used in smartphones....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Amazon Underground has three times as many Android apps than ever before July 23, 2025 Amazonhas been playing around with a pretty interesting business model lately, and their use of it involving Android apps has seen a 300% growth since its inception. The idea is simple. Creators should get paid in proportion to the amount of time a consumer engages the creative content....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. AMD and Intel reveal the direction of CPU development June 10, 2025 By including the ARM CPU, AMD can integrate ARM’sTrustZone technology– the world’s most broadly-adopted mobile security ecosystem. The TrustZone technology is currently used in a large number of applications including secure payment, digital rights management (DRM), enterprise and web-based services. “As technology becomes more important to our everyday lives, security needs to be present in every single device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android 11 developer preview finally enables chat bubbles July 16, 2025 Google debuted a lot of features inAndroid 10that never made their way into the final build (remembernative screen recording?). One such feature wasBubbles, which are basically like Facebook Messenger chat head-like icons that float on top of your screen for messaging apps. InAndroid 11, Google is finally bringing them to the forefront....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android 11 for Xiaomi Mi A3 bricking phones (Update: Free fixes offered) July 14, 2025 Update, July 29, 2025 (12:35 PM ET):After widespread reports of bricked Mi A3 phones, Xiaomi revealed toAndroid Authoritythat it would halt the rollout of Android 11 for those devices. Here is the company’s statement on the matter: To find a service center, check the localized version ofMi....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android beats Apple in ditching the headphone port on smartphones June 13, 2025 There has been a lot of discussion about the rumor that Apple is doing away with the headphone port on the upcoming iPhone 7. While we in Android-land likely smirked and counted ourselves lucky, the first three smartphones with no headphone port have just been announced in China....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android O will (sorta) be the end of the road for the OnePlus 3/3T June 13, 2025 After the OnePlus 2’s very lukewarm response, there was much rejoicing when theOnePlus 3, and later theOnePlus 3T, turned out to be a return to form forOnePlus. With the company’s attention now on theOnePlus 5, however, it might not come as a huge shock that Oliver Z, OnePlus’ head of product, confirmed that the OnePlus 3/3T will not be given major software updates followingAndroid O....