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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google CEO Sundar Pichai assigns Hiroshi Lockheimer as head of Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast July 08, 2025 Google’s new business model was sure to result in plenty of changes around the company’s headquarters. While plenty of Google subsidiaries are breaking up to become their own projects (Alphabet), Google will continue thriving under the leadership of newCEO Sundar Pichai. The dust is starting to settle and it’s time to assign chores around the house, and that is exactly what Pichai has done....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google looking to add in-app purchases to Google Cardboard content July 17, 2025 In-app purchases are the lifeblood of many game development companies and devs need to eat too, in the virtual world as well as the real world. So with VR on the rise, it was always only a matter of time until Google Cardboard content got in-app purchases....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google wants to train two million Android developers in India - here’s how you can start June 01, 2025 It’s no secret thatGoogle– and competitors likeAppleorFacebook–view India as a key marketfor their future. With hundreds of millions of users waiting to come online, most on them on mobile first, India has tremendous potential. But for Google, India is more than a source of valuable new users....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s Pixel 2 fabric cases are well worth the steep price tag August 24, 2025 TheGoogle Pixel 2andPixel 2 XLaren’t cheap phones in any capacity, so you’re going to want to protect your new investment. The best way to do that is with acase, and I can wholeheartedly recommend Google’s Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL fabric cases. These new cases, announced alongside the Pixel 2 on October 4, are made of a unique fabric on the outside that makes the device super grippy....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Have a look at one of the first Snapdragon 888 phones (Updated: New name?) June 06, 2025 Update: June 05, 2025 (1:10 AM ET): realme has teased a new Snapdragon 888 phone apparently inspired by koi. Dubbed the “Koi phone” onWeibo, the device will also sport Qualcomm’s latest high-end chipset judging by the “888 red envelopes” or prizes the company is giving away....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here are the videos you don’t want to miss this week – August 01, 2025 July 29, 2025 Following a busy month ofNexus,DroidandSonyreviews, this week has been relatively calm when it comes to Android-related videos. Even so, we’ve still managed to bring you a bunch of interesting video content, including our full reviews of theLG V10and theASUS ZenFone 2 Laser, as well as our impressions on the first 48 hours with the affordableOnePlus X....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s a first, real look at Android 10 Live Caption feature in action June 23, 2025 Live Captionis arguably the coolestAndroid 10feature around, delivering captions for local and web videos thanks to on-device machine learning. Best of all, it doesn’t require an internet connection to work. Android 10 is out already, but we haven’t seen Live Caption hit devices yet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s what Sony’s strange doughnut-shaped earbuds are all about August 10, 2025 Sony is gearing up to launch the so-called LinkBuds WF-900 Bluetooth earbuds. The company is teasing an announcement on February 15 at 12 PM ET, calling it the reveal of an “Always-on sound gateway.” Given the image in the teaser, it’s more than likely that Sony will showcase its strange-looking doughnut-shaped buds....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s why Redmi is making a gaming phone and when it’ll launch August 10, 2025 Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi has beenteasingits first gaming smartphones since the beginning of the year. The company has now disclosed viaWeibothat the Redmi gaming phone will launch at the end of April. The firm’s General Manager, Lu Weibing, also revealed the reasons for launching the gaming device in a machine-translatedpost on Weibo, giving us a few hints about what to expect from it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s why the Kirin 990 uses the Cortex-A76, not the newer A77 June 10, 2025 HUAWEI officially revealed theKirin 990chip atIFA 2019in Berlin. Curiously, the new chip comes with the 2018 Cortex-A76 microarchitecture, which is not the newest version. Why doesn’t it come with the 2019 Cortex-A77? Android Authorityhad the chance to sit down with Richard Yu, the consumer CEO at HUAWEI, and get this question answered....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR V10 renders reveal “full-screen” handset with dual rear cameras August 07, 2025 HONOR is expected to unveil its latest smartphone, the HONOR V10, in an event in China tomorrow. We caught a glimpse of what the new handset might look like in a leak last week, but thanks to Chinese communications commission website TENAA, we now have some renders to go on too....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Honor’s 2021 MagicBook Pro may be a downgrade but there’s a good reason for that June 06, 2025 When HONOR announced theMagicBook Proat IFA Berlin 2020, it quickly became one of thebest laptops you could buyfor around €900 thanks to its Ryzen 5 4600H processor. It was fast, well-built and had a nearly bezel-less display. There was just one problem with it: limited availability....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge pulls off its curved display June 11, 2025 That theSamsung Galaxy S7and theS7 Edgeare described as different “variants” or “models” of the same smartphone can be a bit misleading. The technology that goes into making the S7 Edge’s curved display is by no means simple, and it impacts how the internal components of the device can be structured and organized....