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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Get $30 when you use Samsung Pay on your Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge June 06, 2025 Right now, Samsung wants two things to succeed very badly. Okay, technically three things, but two of those share like 75% of the same name. 2016 is lining up to be a less-than-easy year for the mobile industry. The market overall has cooled significantly due to oversaturation (particularly in China) so the demand for high end smartphones (which Samsung makes) and smartphone components (which Samsung also makes) aren’t in particularly high demand....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google adds support for Apple’s Swift programming language to Fuchsia August 15, 2025 There is still lots of mystery around Google’s Fuchsia operating system.Fuchsia first appearedon our radar during the summer of 2016 and I even went as faras building it myself from sourceto see what it could do. Since then Google hasbeen busily developing the OS, however its purpose for existing is still unclear....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google investigating Pixel 2 XL screen burn-in reports July 09, 2025 ThePixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, Google’s latest flagship phones, were made available last week. The new handsets have been met with much excitement, as you might expect, but also some worrying reports. Last week, wediscussed commentsthat had appeared online regarding the Pixel 2 XL’s display, namely that it seemed undersaturated, and that it suffered some kind of blockiness/distortion in low-light....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel 4 hands-on videos show the phone in all its glory (Updated) July 31, 2025 Update, August 20, 2025 (4:35AM ET):When it leaks, it pours. Yet another video showing off the Pixel 4 XL in all its glory has shown up, courtesy of Vietnamese YouTubers. Head on below to take yet another look at the Pixel 4’s hardware and Soli gestures....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel 4a isn’t official yet, but its camera has just been reviewed June 11, 2025 Google is expected to launch thePixel 4asometime this month, but someone has already posted a camera review of the phone before the mid-ranger has even been announced. The leak comes courtesy of Cuban YouTube channelTecnoLikePlus, run byJulio Lusson. The YouTuber had also previously posted a handful ofPixel 4a camera sampleson Twitter....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Translate now almost as powerful offline as it is online for 59 languages August 23, 2025 Google announced todayon its blog that it is introducing neural machine translation technology toGoogle Translate. This new Google Translate NMT upgrade will allow offline translations on your smartphone to be almost as effective as online translations. When you use Google Translate while connected to the internet, your smartphone isn’t actually doing the translating; it’s sending the information into the cloud where Google’s machine learning computers do the heavy lifting and then send the response back to you....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Graphene and printed electronics could usher in truly discreet wearables June 29, 2025 The wearables market is in full swing, with a wide range of fitness trackers and smartwatches now on the market. However, the form factor is still perhaps not ideal, as bulky electronics have to be squeezed in behind a watch face. In the future, this type of issue could be solved by recent developments in the world of flexible electronics....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR 8 Review July 19, 2025 What we like What we don’t like Our scores Earlier this year,Honorreleased theHONOR 5X, which we proclaimed to be one ofthe bestsub-$200 smartphones available in the United States. HUAWEI is now looking to further build up their HONOR brand with the HONOR 8, HONOR’s take on the “affordable flagship.” Interested in HONOR? At $400, does the HONOR 8 have what it takes to go up against segment leadersZTEandOnePlus?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI partners with Three for HONOR 6 Plus UK launch, priced at £299 August 12, 2025 Aspromised, HUAWEI’sHONOR 6 Plussmartphone is on schedule to arrive in the UK this month, featuring high quality mobile technology at a reasonable price point. Not only can you already pre-order the SIM-free handset for delivery on May 18th, but the Chinese manufacturer has teamed up with national carrier Three, which should give HUAWEI some additional exposure in the country....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI reveals first glimpse at 5G foldable phone coming at MWC June 07, 2025 Foldablesare the flavor of the season andHuaweiwants to get in on the action. The company took to Twitter to all-but-confirm that it too will be launching a new foldable smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2019. HUAWEI has announced a press event scheduled for 24th February at the upcoming Mobile World Congress....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. In the future, Alphabet is going to let anyone post stories and photos on Google Earth July 04, 2025 Alphabet Inc., the parent company ofGoogle, has big plans forGoogle Earth. According to a report fromReuters, Alphabet wants users to post “millions” of stories, videos and photos to the platform as part of upcoming social changes. Specifics regarding the new features, how the whole thing will work and be monitored, are yet to be disclosed, but seemingly this is just a lighthearted way to get more people interacting with Google’s globe exploration tool....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Is it me or have smartphones become interesting again? June 10, 2025 The feeling had been hanging around for some time: anything from “a couple of years” to “since theNexus 5,” depending on who you asked. Whatever the timescales, many Android fans had noticed smartphones seemed to havelost their spark. As I was looking over the recent Android smartphone releases last week, something occurred to me....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. It looks like there will be a Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra after all July 29, 2025 Samsung is no stranger to elite-level flagships, but theGalaxy S20 seriestook things to another level with the super-spec’d, super-sizedGalaxy S20 Ultra. Initial reports suggested that Samsung’s already pretty huge phablet series wouldn’t follow suit, but there’s now evidence pointing to the existence of a Galaxy Note 20 Ultra....