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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. realme X7 series hits India: 5G, fast charging, OLED screen for under $300 August 13, 2025 realme confirmed back in October 2020 that it planned to bring the 5G-toting realme X7 and realme X7 Pro to India. It’s taken several months, but the phones have finally launched in the market. The realme X7 and X7 Pro share a number of features, such as5G+5G dual SIMsupport, a 32MP selfie camera in a punch-hole cutout, and an in-display fingerprint sensor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: For phones over $800, Apple owns 79% of the global market July 27, 2025 The newest report fromCounterpoint Researchdetails the premium smartphone market around the world. Although most of the numbers shouldn’t be too surprising, Apple’s market share in the ultra-premium sector is larger than you might have expected. According to Counterpoint, Apple’s global market share for phones with a price tag above $800 is a whopping 79 percent....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Rumor: another Apple about-face – selling a stylus July 29, 2025 AppleInsider “If you see a stylus, they blew it,” proclaimed a defiant Steve Jobs once upon a time (not too long ago). The man, the myth, the legend was seeking to explain the brilliance of the iPhone: the fingers that everyone have were enough of a stylus that the PDAs of the past had all gotten it wrong....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy A6 to finally debut in US, alongside Galaxy Tab A 10.5 July 22, 2025 Samsung has announced that it is bringing the mid-rangeSamsung Galaxy A6andSamsung Galaxy Tab A 10.5to the U.S. on September 14. While both the phone and the tablet have been known about for a while, this is the first time a U.S. release date has been confirmed....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy S8’s Bixby AI may support up to 8 languages August 16, 2025 When theSamsung Galaxy S8launches later this year it will reportedly include the company’s own AI assistant, Bixby. Today, a new rumor claims thatBixbywill support up to 8 languages at launch. The South Korean-basedETNews, who first reported this story based on its unnamed sources, claims the languages that Bixby will include at launch are English, Korea, Chinese, and five other unspecified languages....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung teases “big things” coming from the Galaxy Note 8 in new video July 23, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy Note 8is going to be unveiled in just nine days at an event in New York City. Ahead of its announcement, Samsung has teased what you can expect from the handset in a new video. But, even by teaser standards, this one is light on details....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Snap responds to call for rollback on controversial redesign June 13, 2025 Update (02/22):Snap has responded to an online petition requesting that it roll back a recent Snapchat update. TheChange.orgpetition currently has more than 1.2 million signatures and was created following the rollout of a controversial interface redesign. Snap made thestatementon Change.org (viaThe Verge) and you can read it below....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony PlayStation Showcase reveals Wolverine, Spider-Man 2, KOTOR Remake, more August 21, 2025 Sony held another one of its virtual PlayStation Showcase events today, and as promised it offered up a number of new trailers and announcements for itsPlayStation 5games library. Here’s a quick look at what was revealed today. Marvel’s Wolverine Insomniac Games, the makers of the hit Spider-Man PlayStation games, is making another Marvel-based game, based on everyone’s favorite mutant Wolverine....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Street Art, Google’s first Android Wear watch face, is now live in the Play Store June 19, 2025 Google has just released its firstAndroid Wearwatch face to the Play Store. It’s called Street Art, and features a very pretty design, though it comes with barely any customization options. Every few minutes, the watch face rotates through a giant list of street art pieces, powered by Google’s Street Art Project....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Super-secure Turing Phone is slated to ship on December 18th July 08, 2025 Security-focused Android smartphones have been growing in popularity over the past year or so, and perhaps one of the most popular devices we’ve seen recently is theTuring Phone. Featuring a 5.0-inch Full HD display, a perfectly capable Snapdragon 801 processor backed by 3GB of RAM and a chassis made of liquidmetal, this device brings a lot to the table....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. T-Mobile and Qualcomm team up to show the power of gigabit LTE August 22, 2025 There’s plenty of excitement surrounding 5G and the possibilities it brings, but let’s not forget that LTE has plenty of room for improvement.Qualcomm, in partnership withT-Mobile, showed folks what that improvement looks like during a recent event in San Jose in the form ofgigabit LTE....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Mobvoi TicWatch GTX is a $60 smartwatch with 10-day battery life June 30, 2025 Outside ofAppleand Wear OS manufacturers likeFossil, one of the few bright spots in the wearable space over the last couple of years has been Mobvoi. If you’re not familiar with the company, it has been consistently making affordable smartwatches like theTicWatch Pro,S2, and E2, which all come with compelling feature sets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The most underrated phones of 2021 June 27, 2025 It’s been a pretty good year for smartphones in 2021, with 5G becoming almost a given, flagship pricing becoming a little more palatable, and several more brands committing to longer update support. We saw loads ofstandout phonestoo, such as the Pixel 6 series, Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, and iPhone 13 Pro Max....