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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google removes Play Music subscription gifting in latest update August 06, 2025 Google Play Musichas been stagnant as of late and a new change might foreshadow its eventual replacement withYouTube Music. Google has now removed the option to gift Play Music subscriptions (h/t:Android Police). The news comes after Google previously removed a portal through which artists could upload their songs and after a year of very minor updates to the app....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Search can now answer much more complex questions July 25, 2025 For some,Google Searchhas become something of a personal assistant. As Google’s voice recognition algorithms have improved, the feature’s ability to fetch information andobey commandson the fly has become more and more useful. Today, Google made some changes to the way Search processes information, and this has made it quite a bit smarter....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s Super Bowl LIV commercial will probably make you cry — check it out now June 12, 2025 Super Bowl LIV is less than a week away. Even if you aren’t a football fan, there are two reasons you still might want to tune in: the halftime show and the commercials. Googlereleasedits upcoming Super Bowl commercial ahead of the big game and you can check it out now....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s a sneak peek at Google’s first permanent retail store June 08, 2025 Google first opened the online Google Store way back in 2015. Over the years, it’s also opened physical pop-up shops all around the world, usually to coincide with a big new hardware release. One thing Google has never had, though, is a permanent physical retail space....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR 9 Lite launches in Europe with quad-cameras, FullView display June 16, 2025 Fresh off the release of theHONOR 7X, HUAWEI’s youth-friendly sub-brand is back again with another mid-range phone for the European market. Announced at an event in London earlier today, the HONOR 9 Lite is on sale now for £199 in the UK, and €229 in Germany, Italy, France, and Spain via HONOR’s online store....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to flash your T-Mobile OnePlus 6T with unlocked software for fast updates July 20, 2025 TheOnePlus 6Tis the first device from the company to sell with a partner carrier in the United States, specificallyT-Mobile. As such, you might own a T-Mobile OnePlus 6T you bought through the carrier rather thanfrom OnePlus directlyor through a third-party. What you may not know is that when you buy a T-Mobile OnePlus device youare not getting the same experienceas those who buy from other sources....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI nova and nova plus review June 27, 2025 Huawei HUAWEI Nova and Nova Plus What we like What we don’t like Our scores HUAWEIrecently announcedtwo new mid-range Android smartphones: the nova and the nova plus. The nova is a 5.0 inch device with 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor. The nova plus is a 5....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI Watch 3 is confirmed, but we’ll have to wait a while July 03, 2025 Any hopes ofHuaweiannouncing theHUAWEI Watch 2follow-up before the end ofMobile World Congress 2018are now dashed.Richard Yu, CEO of the company,informedTechRadarthat while the HUAWEI Watch 3 is in development, it won’t see a release anytime soon. The reason? The HUAWEI Watch 2 is selling well enough that a new model isn’t necessary....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. I’m tired of giving up battery life for a reasonably sized phone June 10, 2025 Right now, myGoogle Pixel 3is sitting on my desk in its natural habitat: on thePixel Stand. It lives there now — not because I want it to, but because I can’t get away with using it as my main smartphone any longer. The battery life is just too poor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. If you want fast updates on the Galaxy S8, maybe go with Sprint August 22, 2025 Sprintrecently became the first carrier to roll outAndroid Nougatto the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, delivering it234 days after Android Nougat was first released. That’s not “fast” in terms of update rollouts, but Sprint still beat the other carriers, and it was the first to upgrade those devices to Marshmallow too, getting it out weeks before the others in 2016....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. It’s official: Justice Department files antitrust lawsuit against Google July 27, 2025 It’s been a long time coming, but the US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit againstGoogle, citing the search giant’s long-running dominance in online search and anti-competitive practices in search advertising. To be clear, the focus is on advertising through search, not Google’s entire ad business. For now, the DOJ says it is only focusing on Google’s anti-competitive behavior surrounding search and search advertising....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Josh’s Daily Driver: BlackBerry KEYone June 29, 2025 Based on the title alone, I’m sure you all already have some opinions regarding my choice of daily driver. However, that doesn’t change the fact that this is the phone I always come back to as my everyday carry. So what exactly do we mean by “daily driver” from the view of a tech reviewer who sees dozens of phones in a given year?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Last minute deal: Produce stunning presentations with Slideshop June 19, 2025 If you regularlyproduce presentationsin your line of work, you’ll know that the content is only half the story. The rest of the time you spend trying tomake it look professional and impressive. The problem is that this can be a painstaking process. LetSlideshopdo the heavy lifting for you. This popular library of slide templates hasover 15,000 designsfor you to choose from....