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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Big NVIDIA Shield Android TV update rolling out, brings Plex Media Server support and more July 01, 2025 A few weeks ago we got word thata big updatewould be heading toNVIDIA’s Shield Android TV. Today that update has arrived. The biggest news with the version 3.2 update is that it will allow you to run the entirePlexMedia Server directly on your Shield Android TV....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. BLU vivo 5 and vivo XL hands-on July 15, 2025 Here atCES 2016,BLUhas just unveiled two new devices for the budget market,the BLU vivo 5 and vivo XL. Sporting a premium design, decent specs and some interesting features we aren’t used to seeing on budget devices, these new smartphones do a great job of not sacrificing build quality and features for a lower price point....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Change my mind: The Pixel 6 design is amazing, actually August 18, 2025 Let me whisk you, for a moment, back to the days of late October 2015. Android 5.0 Lollipop had just landed, along with a shiny new slogan to celebrate the new operating system. “Be together. Not the same,” it read. It felt like a timely saying, not only for myself as a young college student in a new place but also for the wide variety of Android designs on the market....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Chinese manufacturers’ market share in India grew exponentially in Q4 2016 July 21, 2025 India – boasting more than 300 million smartphone users now – is a lucrative market for every major smartphone manufacturer. That’s why companies like Samsung, VIVO, HUAWEI, and Xiaomi are fiercely competing one another to bring attractive devices without sacrificing affordability. And judging byCounterpoint’s latest dataon the Indian smartphone market, Chinese OEMs are doing very well....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Dare to see what comes next at realme Fan Festival 2021 July 07, 2025 What’s the best third birthday party you’ve ever been to? It probably doesn’t hold a candle to realme’s upcoming Fan Festival 2021. The brand has enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity, officially exceeding 100 million sales in just 37 months. As such, realme is ready to celebrate with a launch event for the realme GT Master Edition Series and more new product lines....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Early Galaxy S10 sales said to be underwhelming, Samsung says otherwise July 24, 2025 South Korean sales for theSamsung Galaxy S10series have arrived and the situation doesn’t look great for Samsung. Samsung Galaxy S10 activations suggest pre-orders were lower than last year’s Galaxy S9, according toThe Investor. The Galaxy S9 sales were reportedly arecord low for Samsung. The Investorsays there were 140,000 day-one activations for the Galaxy S10, S10 Plus, and S10e, compared to 180,000 for theS9 and S9 Plus, and 200,000 for theGalaxy Note 9....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook debuts enterprise tool Workplace for ads-free chat Jun 24, 2025 Scrolling down yourFacebookNews Feed while at the office can distract you from work and bring down your productivity. Aware of this drawback, Facebook has launched Workplace, a collaborative enterprise tool designed to provide an environment for productive discussion. Workplace evolved from months of private beta testing under the name Facebook at Work, which was launched in January 2015....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fitbit issues statement on bricked Ionic watches after recent update June 10, 2025 Update: June 16, 2025 at 1:14 p.m. ET:Fitbit provided a statement toAndroid Authorityregarding bricked Fitbit Ionic devices after firmware update 70.7.27. Fitbit seems unaware of any widespread issues included in this update, but that doesn’t mean the issues don’t exist. If you’re experiencing any issues with your Ionic, be sure to contact customer support for help....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Assistant can now schedule your smart devices, and more tech news today August 09, 2025 1. AI assistants: Still dumb but Google just got better Voice assistants like Alexa and Google Assistant seemed to burst out into our world promising much, but struggled to go further. Alexa still baffles me on the lack of depth as to what it can do, with basic problems just never really being fixed....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google could launch Google Assistant-powered headphones July 30, 2025 Codenamed “Bisto,” these Google Assistant-powered headphones are mentioned throughout the latest Google app APK. Thanks to9to5Google’s new APK teardown of the Google app, we now know that the search giant might be preparing to launch a pair of “magic pairing” headphones powered by Google Assistant. We saw the name “Bisto” for the first time as early as this past April but weren’t sure what kind of device it was going to be, but various strings from the teardown indicate that it could be a brand-new hearable device:...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google patents creepy connected toys that can interact with children July 14, 2025 Uncovered just recently, a three-year-old patent filed by Google describes connected toys that would be able to interact with, listen and respond to users to not only entertain children, but also to control connected devices around the home. The patent creator goes by the name of Richard Wayne DeVaul, and is the “director of rapid evaluation and mad science” at Google’s experimental X labs....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s new family-friendly section now live in the Play Store June 12, 2025 Firstannounced at Google I/O 2015, Google’s newFamily sectionis finally live in the Play Store. The new section makes it much easier for parents and guardians alike to find age appropriate content for young ones. There are various tabs and sections in the new Family tab, allowing folks to sift through different subcategories to find what’s right for their kids....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s how Android 10’s Live Caption actually works June 19, 2025 Live Captionis one of the coolest Android features yet, using on-device machine learning to generate captions for local videos and web clips. Google has published ablog postdetailing exactly how this nifty feature works, and it actually consists of three on-device machine learning models, for starters. There’s a recurrent neural network sequence transduction (RNN-T) model for speech recognition itself, but Google is also using a recurrent neural network for predicting punctuation....