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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This new Galaxy Watch 4 variant could help you get a hole-in-one August 14, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy Watch 4series made its debut last month, completely overhauling its existing smartwatch line. Now, there’s a new special edition option for those who spend most of their day standing around on manicured grass. Announcedin South Korea, the Galaxy Watch 4 Golf Edition is the latest addition to the lineup packing a few software niceties for golfers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This new stretchable micro-LED display could lead to twisty wearable devices August 22, 2025 Royole is mostly known for itsso-so foldable phones, but it might soon reset your expectations for wearable techlike smartwatches. The company hasintroducedwhat it says is the first stretchable micro-LED display to work with industrial manufacturing processes — that is, it can be mass-produced. The 2.7-inch, 96 x 60 demo panel might not look like much by itself, but it can take more abuse than other flexible screens....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This week in Android: Best of Android and so much Google August 03, 2025 From a field of 24 candidatesfor our Reader’s Choice Award, you narrowed it down to… well, you’ll have to read to find out. At the same time, we wrapped up ourBest of Android Awardswith ourBest Innovation award, as voted on by theAndroid Authoritystaff. Googlewas all over the headlines this past week....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Twitter will bring back the chronological timeline (Update: Here now for Android!) August 05, 2025 Update #2, July 01, 2025 (4:33 PM ET):The moment Android Twitter users have been longing for is here: you can now force your Twitter feed to display tweets in chronological order within the Android app. Twitter made the official announcement on (where else?) Twitter: If you havethe latest version of the Twitter app, you’ll see a star icon at the top right of your feed....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Twitter’s automatic night mode theme is just glorious August 21, 2025 Much to the surprise of early adopters everywhere, the latestAndroid N Developer Previewremoved the option to enable asystem-level dark mode. While that option is now gone from the System Tuner UI (hopefully only for the time being), developers still have the ability to add an automatic day/night mode to their apps that’s based on time and location....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Users to spend $102 billion per year in app-stores by 2020 June 17, 2025 App Annie, an app analytics company, ispredictingthat yearly global app store revenue will exceed $102 billion by 2020. That $102 billion is the total consumers will spend on mobile apps via stores across all app stores including Apple’s App Store, Google Play, 3rd party Android stores, and others including Windows, Amazon, etc....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Verizon, Sprint announce new 5G markets for 2018 and beyond August 24, 2025 The first 5G-capable smartphones are only slated for release next year, but that isn’t stopping Verizon, as it announces the latest 5G market for 2018. The carrierpreviously announcedplans to launch the next-generation technology in three to five markets before the end of the year. At the time, it revealed Sacramento as one of these cities....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Vivo, not Samsung, could be first to put fingerprint sensors into phone screens June 13, 2025 Less is more. That’s the mantra of phone designers in 2017, as manufacturers race to integrate fingerprint sensors into phone screens and make standalone sensors obsolete. But who will be first to the finish line? For a long while, Samsung seemed positioned to win, but recent rumors out of China suggestVivo, followed closely byApple, could actually take the honor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi teams up with World of Warcraft for special edition Redmi Note 8 Pro June 24, 2025 Update, July 19, 2025 (7:13AM ET):Xiaomi has now confirmed toAndroid Authority(and viaWeibo) that it’s launching a special World of Warcraft edition Redmi Note 8 Pro on August 29. “The partnership is about a special WoW edition made for Redmi Note 8 Pro,” a Xiaomi spokesperson told us, linking to a Weibo post....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ‘OK, Google’ is broken for some Wear OS smartwatches (Update: Apparently fixed) July 19, 2025 Update: August 07, 2025 (05:11 PM ET):After word started to spread that “OK Google” detection had broken on some Wear OS watches, Google issued a statement acknowledging the problem. Now, it appears a fix is live. Users on Redditare reporting that hotword detection is back on their watches....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. (Update: HTCrebuttal) HTChas no plans to release a One Mini 3 July 31, 2025 Update, May 19:In an email toPhone Scoop, HTChead of communications Jeff Gordon said Jack Tong was misquoted and that he didn’t actually say that HTCisn’t planning Mini versions of its devices. “To be clear, I’m not confirming HTCis coming out with an HTCOne M9 mini, only that Jack Tong didn’t say what some press are attributing to him,” said Gordon....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5 things we want to see from LG in 2021 August 02, 2025 LGis the perennial underachiever in the smartphone space, but you can’t accuse the company of not trying to change things up in 2020. It threw out the long-running G series and released theLG Velvetinstead — a smartphone that sacrificed flagship power in favor of attractive pricing and style....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alcatel’s 1C and 1X hands-on: Budget as budget gets August 25, 2025 CES 2019 is in full swing, and Alcatel has announced a few refreshes to existing devices for the new year. The first device in the CES lineup is the Alcatel 1C. This phone was made for emerging markets and will be sold at an ultra-low cost, at a suggested retail value of under 70 Euros....