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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What phones do the Android Authority team use as daily drivers? (2020 edition) June 14, 2025 We love smartphones of all shapes and sizes here atAndroid Authority. Expensive or budget, big or small, foldable or… well, not foldable. There are countless great phones out there that cater to different tastes and needs, but it takes something special for a phone to become one of our daily drivers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Why I feel the Google Pixel 2 may be dead on arrival July 17, 2025 Google’s newly announcedPixel 2has some stiff competition on its hands. This year’s Samsung and Apple phones are going to be tough to beat, but they’re not even the Pixel 2’s first real competition. The biggest challenge the phone will face comes from its own brother, the Pixel 2 XL....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi could release a SIM card that’s also a microSD card, which is brilliant June 11, 2025 A lot of phones nowadays are lacking a microSD card slot. Although many people findexpandable storageuseful, some OEMs neglect to include the feature because it takes up precious space that could be filled by “more important” components.Xiaomi, though, might have a solution for this....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Redmi 9 listed online, leaking renders and major specs August 18, 2025 Xiaomi’s Redmi phones are the go-tobudget Android phonesfor millions of users around the world, and the company is set to reveal the Redmi 9 series later this month. We’ve already seenRedmi 9 series leakscovering four phones, but a new leak via a retailer in the Philippines (h/t:Sudhanshu) has now detailed the Redmi 9 itself....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You can now add cards to Android Pay through your mobile banking app June 17, 2025 If you are a customer at one of the select five banks announced by Google, you may now easily add cards to Android Pay right from your mobile banking app. Though online payment platforms have yet to make a serious impact on how we make purchases both online and offline, Google is doing everything it can to ensure that Android Pay remains competitive....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. (Update: Price and release rumor) 6GB RAM Galaxy Note 7 could be heading to China July 12, 2025 A post onWeiboshowing off some promotional material for the Galaxy Note 7’s launch in China claims that the price for the 6GB RAM / 128GB storage model will be 6088 yuan ($910). This would make the phone just a tad more expensive than the regular model that features 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, which is stated to retail for 5688 yuan ($853)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android P lets you simultaneously connect up to five Bluetooth audio devices to your phone June 10, 2025 TheAndroid P Developer Previewhas been with us now for less than 24 hours and plenty of useful new features and tweaks havealreadybeendiscovered. Thanks to the detective work of the folks over atAndroid Police, we can now add a slightly more niche feature to that list....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Pie ROMs are now available for Nexus 6 and Nexus 5X July 04, 2025 In most instances, Google only provides major firmware updates for its devices for two years. This limitation means that thatNexus 6stopped receiving updates after Android Nougat and theNexus 5Xgot Oreo. But thanks to several developers, there are custom ROMs now available that bringAndroid 9.0 Pieto the two handsets (viaXDA-Developers)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. APK Batch Installer: Install, backup, restore, rename Android apps in one go to/from your Windows PC August 14, 2025 Android devices certainly have no dearth of backup and restore solutions, but most apps available on the market only support restoring apps one at a time. For those of you who are practically obsessed about flashing ROMs, having to wipe your apps and restore each and every one individually can be tiring....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Chinese OEM’s devices account for almost 40% of global shipments in 2014 June 27, 2025 The 21st century has seen an impressive amount of growth in a large number of areas including mobile technology, screen resolution, data speeds, and smartphone users. Perhaps no market on the planet is as important as the Chinese: almost all electronic products are manufactured there, and the population is absolutely gigantic, comprising roughly 20% of the world’s population....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Crowdfunding project of the week: Como Audio Solo and Duet speakers June 17, 2025 It’s Sunday! The weekend is winding down and it’s time to see what’s new with the crowdfunding project of the week. Sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are teeming with innovation, but there’s also plenty of campaigns we could live without. The ‘Crowdfunding project of the week’ is a weekly series in which we pick our favorite campaigns and bring them to your attention....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Detachable and thin-bezeled “Pixelbooks” spotted ahead of Google launch event June 26, 2025 Google is expected to bring a bundle of new products to itsPixel 3 launch eventthis October, including a successor to theGoogle Pixelbook. There’s been some speculation that the search giant is preparingtwo new Google-made Chrome OS devices, but the rumors have been based solely on codenames and Chromium commits....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Elephone P5000 review - a 5 inch, full HD smartphone with a 5350 mAh battery August 18, 2025 If there is one thing that generates the most complaints from smartphone users it is battery life. Many devices on the market today, sadly even flagship devices, just don’t offer the battery life needed. Smartphones have a bewildering array of features and us poor users are prone to using them!...