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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Galaxy S8 to ditch the 3.5mm audio jack June 04, 2025 Update (1/12/17):A more recent report from SamMobile suggests that the headphone jack might not be gone after all. More detailscan be found here. Original (12/6/16): The 3.5mm headphone jack has already disappeared from a number of high-end smartphones this year, and it appears that Samsung could be the next manufacturer to follow suit....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy Note Edge on Verizon now receiving Android 5.0 Lollipop update June 28, 2025 We’ve already seen theAndroid 5.0 Lollipopupdate come to a number of Samsung devices in the past, such as the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4. Some carrier variants of theGalaxy Note Edgehave also received the update, butVerizonowners, until now, have been stuck onAndroid 4.4 KitKat....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 leaks in hands-on video: Watch it here! (Update) August 17, 2025 Update, July 13, 2025 (4AM ET): TheSamsung Galaxy Watch 3has been showcased in yet another pre-launch video. This time, YouTube channel The Mobile Central is responsible for a full unboxing, including a detailed look at the watch itself, its setup procedure, and size comparisons with other devices....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G: What you need to know (Update: General sales!) June 25, 2025 Updated, June 11, 2025 (04:30 PM ET):The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G is now up for general sale onSamsung.comand Samsung’s Canada site,Samsung.ca. It’s pricey on its own, so we’d recommend trying to trade in another smartphone to try to bring that $1,450 price tag down a bit....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung will fight Xiaomi with four new ‘Made in India’ Galaxy J phones July 11, 2025 Samsungrecently announced, viaXDA Developers, that it will release four new smartphones in the Samsung Galaxy J series sometime this month, specifically targeted at Indian consumers. The company is likely banking hard on these devices to win back their top spot in the country after losing it toXiaomilast year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Seamless updates means Android N will now update in the background August 04, 2025 While the vast majority of the Android N features that Google talked aboutduring its keynote this morningwere mostly just recaps of things we already knew, there were at least a fewnew tweaks that were highlighted as well.Google also talked a bit about seamless updates, though amidst all the other announcements it was something we somewhat overlooked highlighting earlier....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Simple Google Assistant commands failing you? You’re not alone. (Update: Fixed) August 19, 2025 Update, June 21, 2025 (02:35 PM ET):Google responded to our inquiry related to the Assistant problems described in the original article below. Here is the full statement from a Google spokesperson: It appears the Google Assistant command problem is now fixed. Google didn’t give us any indication as to what the problem was nor how it was fixed....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Skullgirls fights its way toward the Google Play Store July 14, 2025 Are you a fan ofpunch-em-upsbut aren’t particularly satisfied with the current mobile gaming options? Skullgirls might be the option for you. The super stylish fighting game is soon to arrive on Android and iOS, but the mobile version of the game will come with a little extra zest....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony comments on Xperia Z3+ overheating issues July 01, 2025 Comments around the thermal management have been plaguingQualcomm’s new Snapdragon 810chipset ever since it was announced and these issues have passed through to handsets running the next-generation processor. Themetal-clad HTCOne M9ran hot on intensive tasks and theSony Xperia Z4andXperia Z3+have also suffered from overheating with the processor. Qualcomm haspreviously come out and called reports of the overheating issues ‘rubbish’while Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has putadvisory warnings on handsetsrunning the processor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. South Korea just got serious about being a world leader in AR and VR June 19, 2025 AR and VR are the next big things for mobile and gaming, there’s little question about that. But every new frontier needs a champion, and South Korea has every intention of being a “global powerhouse” in the fields of virtual reality and augmented reality....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Google Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G will not land in India August 10, 2025 Today, Google finally took the wraps off one of the most hotly anticipated phones of the year: theGoogle Pixel 4a. It also confirmed two other devices coming later this year, namely theGoogle Pixel 4a 5Gand theGoogle Pixel 5. While these two phones will see launches in various parts of the world before the end of 2020, there will not be Google Pixel 4a 5G or Google Pixel 5 India or Singapore launches....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 will be made by… Samsung August 06, 2025 While usually seen as competitors,QualcommandSamsungare about to embark on a very cozy trip to your smartphone’s innards. Samsung has just announced mass production of their 14nm LPP(Low-Power Plus) has begun. As expected, this technology will be embedded right into Samsung’s upcomingExynos 8 Octaprocessor, but it won’t be the only one rocking all the goodies....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This 360-degree camera module is small enough to fit into a 7.6mm smartphone August 22, 2025 Last year, a company called ProTruly announced two smartphones with built-in 360-degree cameras. Although the idea sounds great on paper, the problem is that 360-degree camera modules are quite big and don’t really look that great on handsets. It makes them both a lot taller as well as thicker....