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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. One million account logins and passwords are stolen every month, says Google August 04, 2025 Google has delved into the darker parts of the internet as part of a year-long research project analysing how cybercriminals manage to hijack user accounts by obtaining passwords and login codes. In collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, Google’s research examined three common ways hackers manage to hijack accounts between March 2016 and March 2017....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 3 goes back on sale in Europe and Hong Kong August 03, 2025 If you were looking to purchase aOnePlus 3back in August, you may have run into an issue whereby the phone’s sale was actually halted in your country. Today,OnePlus’latest flagship is no longer at the mercy of a stock shortage, and is now available to purchase in these countries once more....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 6 sales are off to a strong start in India and China July 15, 2025 OnePlus has recorded some pretty impressive opening day sales for theOnePlus 6. Carl Pei, the co-founder of OnePlus, toldAndroid Authoritythat the device sold 100,000 units in the first 12 minutes of going on sale in China. In India, the companyannouncedthat, in the first 10 minutes of availability on Amazon, the OnePlus 6 generated over one billion rupees (approximately $14....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus CEO says ‘there’s still a demand’ for cheap phones, will deliver soon July 30, 2025 In a world where smartphones are going well over $1,000, OnePlus believes there’s still room forcheap phones. OnePlus founder and CEO Pete Lau was recently interviewed byFast Company. One of the key takeaways is that OnePlus isn’t ready to give up onaffordable devices.Specifically, the company appears to be planning a cheaper device India, with plans to bring it to North America and Europe later....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus CEO: OnePlus 3 feels good to hold June 15, 2025 One of the secrets behind the success of OnePlus’ mobile strategy in its short history is the company’s own approach to leaking and teasing its new products before they’re announced. With another flagship duelater this quarter, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has taken to Weibo to proclaim that the OnePlus 3 ‘feels good to hold’ in the hand....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus needs to hit a home run with the OnePlus 9 July 13, 2025 I don’t think it’s controversial to say thatOnePlusis in a bit of a strange place right now. The brand rose to fame as the plucky underdog but is struggling to hold on to its identity as a more well-known name. Contentious design decisions, such as those underlying its approach toOxygen OS 11, a failure to address some long-running issues, and a few too many so-so handset releases have culminated in some rather warranted backlash this year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OPPO flagship will be first to ship with Gorilla Glass 6, likely the OPPO F9 July 12, 2025 Corning, Inc. – maker of the popular Corning Gorilla Glass series – said ina press release todaythat the first device to market with the latestGorilla Glass 6will be an unnamedOppoflagship smartphone. The next big smartphone release from OPPO is almost certainly theOPPO F9, which makes it the most likely contender for the Gorilla Glass launch....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Pandora’s new update is an aesthetics makeover June 23, 2025 In a time when algorithms comparing the listening habits of users was the stuff of science fiction,Pandorawas hard at work on the “Music Genome Project,” an attempt to categorize hundreds of thousands of songs based on their genre, what instruments are being used, the gender of the lead singer, and hundreds of other labels....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Pebble Time Round review June 26, 2025 Pebble Time Round What we like What we don’t like Our scores Something we all want from our smartwatches is to have them look as close to an actual watch as possible. Of course, some of the latest Android Wear releases can certainly be considered fashionable, and more importantly, indistinguishable from regular timepieces....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Perseverance lift-off, Big Tech grilling highlights, and more tech news today August 04, 2025 1. The Grilling of Big Tech After an hour delay, yesterday’s congressional subcommittee hearing stretched nearly six hours. Much has been said about too many members of the subcommittee wasting time with politically-motivated questioning …during an antitrust hearing. But enough committee members came prepared, with internal corporate emails and detail from interviews with smaller companies that said they were harmed by anti-competitive practices....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Pokemon Go incites a 136% increase in PokePorn consumption on PornHub August 23, 2025 Yes, it would appear that desire for Pokemon takes many forms these days. For some, merely catching ‘em all isn’t quite enough. For these Pokefans, being a Pokemon Master entails a bit more than hunting through tall grass for next Weedle or Rattata. That’s why PornHub isreportinga 136 percent increase in searches for “Pokemon” sincePokemon Golaunched last week....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Users leave Android for iOS because of a “better user experience” ¯_(ツ)_/¯ July 11, 2025 The days of hardcore “Android vs iOS” fighting amongst fanboys are mostly behind us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t engage in the occasional bickering. If you’re looking for a reason to pick a fight, we’ve got some fuel for the fire. A new survey conducted byPCMagasked 2,500 mobile users in the United States a series of questions about their buying habits....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung announces One UI Watch, the skin that appears on top of Wear OS 3.0 August 18, 2025 AtGoogle I/O 2021, Google surprised us all by announcing the next stage for its wearable operating system, known asWear OS. Google and Samsung have partnered together to create a new operating system that will appear on future Samsung wearables. We still haven’t seen what “Wear OS 3....