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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Trump and FCC outline aggressive 5G plan, will not nationalize networks August 07, 2025 During a White House press conference today, President Donald Trump — with FCC chairman Ajit Pai at his side — laid out the aggressive plans his administration has for the rollout of 5G networks across the country (viaCNBC). The overarching theme of the plan is that the government will not nationalize the country’s 5G networks....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Turn your phone into a baseball speed radar with Scoutee July 11, 2025 Baseball pitchers throw many balls and some may seem to be faster than ever, but it’s hard to determine true speeds without expensive, bulky equipment. Scoutee aims to end all your pitching woes by becoming your very own portable baseball speed detector, providing you with all the data you need to improve your skills or impress friends, coaches and even scouts....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Two unique new games get very meta by being about smartphones August 06, 2025 If you are getting tired of playing smartphone games that are just clones of Clash of Clans or Candy Crush Saga, there are definitely some new options to check out in theGoogle Play Storethis week. Two titles,A Normal Lost PhoneandStrange Smartphone, get all meta with us by using smartphones as their main gameplay device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Unique ARPG Crashlands arrives to Google Play July 11, 2025 After a rather lengthy development process where the game was teased at least a few times, Crashlands from Butterscotch Shenanigans has arrived to Google Play for all Android devices, and includes optimization for the NVIDIA Shield family. For those unaware, Crashlands is an action RPG that puts you in the role of a spaceship delivery driver who ends up crashing on a random planet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Update: The Elder Scrolls: Legends is now out for Android August 03, 2025 Original post (3/9):The Elder Scrolls: Legends has been available in beta for PC since last year. After several months of testing, feedback and patching, Bethesda is finally announcing the full release of the game, which is available as of today. But that is not all the game developer has to share; this turn-based card game is also to come to other platforms, including Android....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Warning: Recent Samsung Galaxy S10 update is locking folks out of their phones July 03, 2025 SomeSamsung Galaxy S10andS10 Plusowners are encountering a significant problem following a recent device update. After installing the update, affected users are unable to unlock their smartphones. One of our readers, who encountered the issue themselves, alerted us to this issue via email. It has also been discussed inSamsung’s forumsand onRedditin the past two days....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What is the best mid-range mobile processor? June 01, 2025 Not everyone buys a flagship or premium smartphone. Brands likeXiaomi,Nokia, andHonorsell millions of devices a year in the mid-range market. A mid-range device is typically cheaper and has fewer features than aflagshipor premium device. They generally use mobile processors with lower levels of performance compared to flagship processors, as these mid-range processors are cheaper and help reduce the overall price of the handsets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Which phone manufacturer had the best year in 2017? [Poll of the Week] August 19, 2025 2017 brought us some of the best smartphones we’ve ever seen. It was also the year that we saw many Android OEMs come into their own. Samsung had a particularly tough year, as it not only had to recover from theGalaxy Note 7 recall, it also had to win the trust back of consumers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Why you shouldn’t wait for a Snapdragon 888 Plus smartphone July 14, 2025 Qualcomm’s 2021 mid-cycle refresh is here in the form of theSnapdragon 888 Plus. But with phones not expected until later in 2021 and some rather muted performance benefits on offer, it’s perhaps not the most exciting processor release from Qualcomm. If you missed the announcement, the headline improvements are a Cortex-X1 CPU clock speed boost from 2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. WiFi Shoot: Sharing files over Wi-Fi Direct July 01, 2025 As the capabilities of Android devices have improved, so did the speed of transferring files from one device to another. Gone are the days that you have to steadily hold two phones near each other and wait until your files are sent via infrared. One of the new ways of sharing files faster is via Wi-Fi Direct....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. World’s tech giants unite in Partnership for AI August 17, 2025 Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon. Hallowed names that have already secured their places in history, thanks to products that are shaping the lives of billions of people. And yet, their existing achievements could be dwarfed by the impact of their work on artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is emerging as the most transformative technology since the dawn of the smartphone age....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi will now let you opt in to data collection in incognito mode June 19, 2025 Update, August 05, 2025 (9:16AM ET):Xiaomi previously released an update to its browsers that let you enable or disable data collection while in incognito mode. But it turns out that the wording alongside the toggle gave many the impression that it was an opt-out process (i....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. #MWC17 – What’s in my gear bag? August 23, 2025 As some of you know, I’m more of a writer here than a video maker, but I do like to dabble. Whenever I’m at a trade show though I like to travel light, so I tend not to overdo it when I pack: just the essentials. Here’s all the gear I brought to MWC 2017, with Amazon links if you’re interested in checking any of it out....