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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG misses profit expectations due to money-losing mobile division July 14, 2025 LG has revealed its Q2 earnings guidance, and the news is both good and bad at the same time. The good news is the company’s operating profit and revenue for the quarter increased by 14 and 3.9 percent when compared to the same period a year ago. LG generated 664 billion won ($574....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG patent reveals full-screen foldable phone concept with clamshell design August 20, 2025 The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted LG a patent for afoldable smartphone. Thepatent, which was granted on June 28 and discovered byLetsGoDigital(viaPhone Arena), hints at some features LG could be planning to include in a foldable phone. The device shown in the patent looks like a large version of a regular smartphone that would fold vertically....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft’s new plan for Windows on mobile: just use Android and iOS June 02, 2025 Microsoft so far hasn’t been able to compete with Google and Apple’s mobile platforms, with Windows products occupying about 0.3% of the smartphone OS market shareat the end of 2016. Now, Microsoft appears to be eyeing a more “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach: PC’s don’t just love Windows 10 Mobile devices, PCs loveallyour devices,apparently....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Moto Z4 shows up on Amazon, already shipping to customers (Update) July 25, 2025 Update, July 09, 2025, at 12:15 am ET:It looks like Motorola removed all of the listings from Amazon. It’s unclear if the company will cancel orders placed while the phone was available. Original Post, June 16, 2025, at 5:39 pm ET:We’ve seen severalleaked renders of the Moto Z4,but now it looks like Motorola messed up and made it available forpurchase from Amazon....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Motorola Defy Pro is the first ruggedized Android phone with a physical QWERTY keyboard August 04, 2025 Two of the more niche markets for Motorola over the past couple of years, have been theruggedized smartphone marketand the physical keyboard market. Motorola was the first to make a ruggedized Android smartphone (Motorola Defy) that still looked pretty much like any regular Android phone, rather than look like a brick....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Niantic likely developing Harry Potter game exclusive to Samsung Galaxy Note July 22, 2025 According to an anonymous source speaking withThe Inquirer, Samsung is poised to make a substantial investment in mobile game makerNiantic, creator of the worldwide smashPokémon Go. This potential new partnership could result in Niantic games being pre-loaded onto futureSamsungdevices, as well as Niantic creating games exclusive to Samsung smartphones....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Our first look at the phones that will fill the Galaxy Note 7 hole July 26, 2025 When a phone as significant as theGalaxy Note 7suddenly goes missing from carriers’ and retailers’ shelves, something has to fill that vacuum. We already know thatSamsung is ramping up Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge productionin the hopes that brand loyalty will be strong enough to keep unlucky Note 7 owners in the Samsung fray....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Photos shortcut in Google Camera now rolling out August 15, 2025 To see if you have the feature, just open the Assistant tab in Photos and check if you see the card above. If you don’t, try updating Photos. It’s apparently a server side switch, but updating Photos got it enabled on two devices for me. Once you’ve added the shortcut, you’ll see a card offering to take you to Google Camera to take a photo....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s new camera sensor is so small it can fit on your pinkie finger June 20, 2025 After launching the108MPcamera sensor recently and a64MPsensor months ago, Samsung has nowunveileda new 43.7MP camera sensor called ISOCELL Slim GH1. The new camera sensor from Samsung measures just 5mm in size and is the tiniest one ever made by the company. At that size, the sensor is even smaller than the width of your pinkie finger....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Slayaway Camp is the slasher film-inspired puzzle game mashup you’ve always wanted July 17, 2025 Slayaway Camp, a puzzle game inspired by 80s slasher movies, is now available on Google Play. The horror title, previously launched on Steam and iOS, sees you take control of Skullface, a serial killer hell-bent on murdering teenagers; stabbing them, shoving them into wood-chippers and throwing them under lawn mowers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Smartphone shipments drop globally 3%, ZTE’s shipments drop by half June 03, 2025 The numbers are in for global smartphone shipments for the first quarter of 2018, and they’re a mixed bag. The biggest overall takeaway, via the report from theInternational Data Corporation, is that smartphone shipments dropped by nearly 3 percent year-over-year as compared to the first quarter of 2017....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Snapdragon 808 powered Xiaomi Mi 4s announced in China July 26, 2025 Today,Xiaomihas unveiled its newMi 4ssmartphone at a launch event in Beijing, China. The handset again looks to be bridging the gap between the mid and high-ends of the market, offering a number of hardware improvements over last year’s Mi 4i. First up, the Xiaomi Mi 4s has moved on up to aQualcomm Snapdragon 808processor, a hexa-core chip that appeared in last year’s handsets like theLG G4and theNexus 5X....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact announced: New design, same Sony July 07, 2025 Sonyjust announced theXperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact, bringing a new design, better camera, and enhanced audio. Stay tuned as we break down all the new features present in the set of devices. Better haptics to immerse you in your media Sony has gotten serious about haptics this year....