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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple is handing Samsung and Xiaomi the win in India because it doesn’t get the market August 16, 2025 Apple is said to have lost three key members of staff in India in the past weeks as it grapples with the Indian market. According toBloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, Apple lost its “head of telecom carrier sales,” “head of commercial channels and mid-market business,” and its “its national sales and distribution chief,” for the region....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple might make its own modems, cutting reliance on Intel (and Qualcomm) June 28, 2025 A new report fromReuterssuggests thatApplemight be making serious moves to develop its own in-house smartphone modems. If this is true, it would be bad news forIntel, which currently makes iPhone modems. The sources of the report are two anonymous people familiar with the inner workings of Apple....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple will hold a November 10 event to reveal the future of Macs (Update) June 30, 2025 Update: July 03, 2025 (12:25 AM ET): Apple will launch three new MacBooks powered by Apple-designed Arm chipsets, according to aBloombergreport. The publication’s sources suggest two MacBook Pros with 13- and 16-inch displays, and one 13-inch MacBook Air are ready to debut. There’s no mention of AirTags or AirPods Studio headphones, but we wouldn’t rule those out from making an appearance either....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Are you buying the Samsung Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus? Why or why not? [Poll of the Week] August 02, 2025 Last week’s poll summary:Out ofalmost 4,500 total votes, 34.7% of voters are most excited for the Samsung Galaxy S9, while 26 are most looking forward to the LG G6 successor. 18.4% of our readers are excited for HUAWEI’s new P20 line, and 14....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Audio-Technica Sound Reality true wireless earbuds with aptX support announced at IFA June 18, 2025 Announced atIFA, Audio-Technicaintroducedthe Sound Reality ATH-CKR7TW, the company’s first pair oftrue wireless earbuds. The earbuds support the high-quality aptXBluetooth codecalong with SBC and AAC, pleasing those whose phone manufacturersditched the headphone jack. Internally, the Audio-Technica Sound Reality truly wireless earbuds sport an integratedDACandamplifier(AK4375 from AKM), which is impressive given that combined they weigh just eight grams....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bring back plastic phones. June 30, 2025 TheGoogle Pixel 3aandXiaomi POCOphone F1are twoverydifferent phones, but they have one key thing in common. They’re plastic. Somewhere in this strange timeline of ours, we decided that glass phones were in, and plastic phones were out. Cell phones became fashion pieces, proving to our friends that we could afford such luxuries, with apremium“feel in the hand” becoming a significant factor in reviews....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Check your inbox to see if you received an invite to Google I/O 2018 August 13, 2025 Registration forGoogle I/O 2018might be closed, but if you got your name in the hat in time,Googlestarted notifying raffle winners this morning. If you were selected to attend Google’s yearly developer conference, check your inbox for an email similar to the one posted below....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Comments of the Week: Plastic smartphones, OPPO, and Pixel prototypes June 08, 2025 Hey everyone! Welcome back to another installment of Comment Authority, our weekly roundup of the best comments onAndroid Authorityfrom you, our readers. This past week we saw passionate conversations about smartphone materials (plastic good!) and smartphone designs (notch bad!). We also saw a great conversation happen surrounding theOPPO Find X, the next exciting flagship from the Chinese manufacturer....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Crowdfunding project of the week: iBand+ induces lucid dreaming and helps you sleep better June 28, 2025 It’s Sunday and you probably need to catch up on sleep after your weekend adventures (I know I do). But before you go into dreamland you should take a look at today’s ‘Crowdfunding project of the week’. In this article series we highlight some of the coolest campaigns from websites likeKickstarterandIndiegogo....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Deal: Get Verizon’s Moto Z Droid for just $5 a month at Best Buy July 18, 2025 Looking to upgrade your smartphone, but aren’t keen on spending money on a mid-range phone? Best Buy may have a great deal for you. Right now,Verizon’sMoto Z Droid Editioncan be yours forjust $4.99 a monthfor 24 months, which means you’ll pay less than $120 for the total cost of the phone over two years....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Everything you need to know about FAU-G: India’s answer to PUBG July 15, 2025 Earlier this year, India banned PUBG Mobile—the trendybattle royale game— following border skirmishes with China. Soon after, FAU-G, a game that took more than a little inspiration from PUBG, started gaining momentum. Popular Bollywood actors backed the announcement on social media. It was positioned as the developer’s response to India’s ambitious call to increase local production....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Family-tracking app company selling user data like crazy, is about to buy Tile June 22, 2025 At this point, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to find out that a company is making money off your data. That’s just the world we live in. What matters most now is how precise that sold data is and who is buying it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fingerprint Cards launches sensor that can hide under glass July 30, 2025 Embeddingfingerprint scannersneatly into home buttons or dedicated frames is pretty convenient, but wouldn’t it be luxurious if we could tuck the little sensor away into the smartphone’s case itself? Well, Fingerprint Cards and TPK, a leading company specializing in cover glass and lamination technologies, have successfully developed a prototype that does just this, discretely mounting a FPC1268 fingerprint sensor under a typical glass cover....