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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Mi Band 3 review July 10, 2025 Xiaomi Mi Band 3 What we like What we don’t like Our scores TheXiaomi Mi Band 3fitness tracker only has one truly unique selling point: its price. For around $25, you may get a fitness tracker capable of pretty much everything a casual user could need. Its feature set rivalsFitbitsthat cost significantly more, to the point that they risk becoming almost obsolete....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi patents its own foldable take on the HUAWEI Mate XS August 04, 2025 TheHUAWEI Mate XSis one of the most high-profile foldables on the market, and it looks like Xiaomi is taking a page out of its rival’s playbook by working on its own foldable phone that could be quite similar in design. LetsGoDigitalrecently discovered that Xiaomi filed a patent on July 23, 2025 for its own foldable phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi to steal Samsung’s thunder with Mi 9 launch on same day as Galaxy S10? (Update) August 11, 2025 Update, August 23, 2025 (7:12AM):Thought you’d have to wait a while to see theMi 9in most of its glory? Well, Xiaomi senior vice-president Wang Xiang has posted images of the device on Twitter. The images show a rather slick gradient color scheme as well as a triple rear camera combination....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 2012 Acer-Alibaba incident may come back to haunt Google June 09, 2025 The strong-arm tactics that Google employed against Alibaba and Acer four years ago could come back to haunt the creator of Android. The Information’sAmir Efraticallsthe 2012 incident where Google had Acer cancel a smartphone developed with Alibaba a potential “smoking gun” in Europe’s investigation into Google’s Android business....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apparently Google Glass isn’t dead, because a new version has just been revealed July 17, 2025 Google Glassburst onto the scene in 2013, a wearable gadget comprising a head-mounted display an eye-level camera. While it was regarded as an exciting prospect, Google Glass failed to properly get off the ground, held back by privacy worries, basic functionality issues, as well as its whopping $1500 price of entry....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Are the Pixel and Pixel XL just overpriced Nexus phones? Or is there more to them? June 14, 2025 In many ways the Pixel and Pixel XL seem more like a simple rebranding of the Nexus family, with a higher price tag. Is this a fair assessment? And if it’s not just a more expensive Nexus, what about its design, features, and philosophy set it apart from the Google phones of old?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Artist creates amazing photos with the HUAWEI P8’s Light Painting function June 16, 2025 One of the marquee features of theHuaweiP8, whichlaunchedlast month in London, is the Light Painting functionality of its camera. Put simply, Light Painting lets you capture “light graffiti,” by capturing multiple shots of a moving scene and then blending the shots into one image showing a light trail....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. BBC Weather Android app available to U.K. users in the Google Play Store July 20, 2025 TheBBC WeatherAndroid app is now available for you to download in the Google Play Store, provided you live in the U.K. The app has been built on native code, rather than using HTML5, as a result of user feedback. As well as speed and simplicity, it offers you an easy way of accessing the BBC’s weather forecasts....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best Kickstarters of the month - July 2016 July 12, 2025 If you always on the lookout for the latest tech, there is no place better than Kickstarter to find some fun, innovative products. If something does catch your eye, your backing will not only help the developer see his dream come to fruition, but you’ll also be one of the first to get your hands on some cool gadgets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Calm down, OnePlus 6 will let you cover up the notch after all August 12, 2025 OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has once again waded into theOnePlus 6notch controversy to deliver what should be good news for disgruntled fans. In a reply on theofficial OnePlus forums(viaThe Verge), Lau noted that the company has taken feedback on board and will implement a notch “blackout” feature....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Coming to America: LeEco to formally launch US presence in October June 08, 2025 If there’s a company you should be watching right now, it’s probably LeEco. Previously referred to as the “Netflix of China,” media outlets are now starting to call it the “Google of China.” Although the company had its humble roots in video streaming, they quickly expanded their services to include automated cars, Android-powered bikes, smartphones, and navigation technology....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Deal: LG G4 with leather back going for $274.99 on eBay June 06, 2025 Looking for a good phone that won’t break the bank? There are plenty of great mid-range handsets in the market, but we sometimes recommend getting an older high-end smartphone instead, as they tend to offer better performance and often get heavily discounted after being on the market for a while....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Enable double tap to wake on your Nexus 6 with this root app July 20, 2025 After learning that theNexus 6is capable of running double tap to wake functionality, many of us went diving into the systems settings looking for how to turn it on. Sadly, the feature is not officially supported, and had been removed by Google before launch....