Iqoo 7 Legend arrives in India: Cheap flagship gaming phone for racing fans

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Iqoo 7 Legend arrives in India: Cheap flagship gaming phone for racing fans Jun 14, 2025 After it made its Chinese debut earlier this year, vivo sub-brand Iqoo has announced its newIqoo 7 seriesin India. Two devices, namely the Iqoo 7 and the Iqoo 7 Legend, do feature some aesthetic differences. The Legend is cloaked in a BMW Motorsport-inspired three-stripe livery with a more square camera array at the rear....

August 1, 2025 · 3 min · 481 words · Mr. Craig Powell

Le Pro3 and Le S3 are getting an app drawer and other new features

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Le Pro3 and Le S3 are getting an app drawer and other new features August 12, 2025 LeEco’s first two smartphones to launch in the US are getting a major update, a key feature being the addition of an app drawer. One of the things that LeEco really emphasized after launching in the US was its User Planning to User platform or simply UP2U (get what they did there?...

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 373 words · Veronica Ramirez

Lenovo launches the Lemon 3 to compete with Xiaomi’s Redmi 3

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Lenovo launches the Lemon 3 to compete with Xiaomi’s Redmi 3 June 22, 2025 Earlier this week, Xiaomi turned heads around the world when they put out theRedmi 3, an impressively spec’ed and priced handset with a full metal body, a 5-inch HD display, octa-core Snapdragon 616 SoC, and a monstrous 4,100 mAh battery. The device is so competitively priced at $105 that some are expecting it to have a drastic effect on the Chinese mid-range smartphone market, seeing as many phones with these specs are selling for three times the price....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 330 words · Alexandra Farmer

Lollipop beginning to roll out to the Verizon Galaxy Note 3

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Lollipop beginning to roll out to the Verizon Galaxy Note 3 July 07, 2025 Verizon’sSamsung Galaxy Note 3is next in line to receive the big update toAndroid 5.0 Lollipop. The update, which is rolling out now, will bring your software version up to LRX21V.N900VVRUEOB6. So what’s new in the Lollipop update? For starters, a big portion of the user interface will be revamped with Google’sMaterial Designguidelines....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 238 words · Tina Curtis

Low-cost Amazon Kindle Fire adds three new colors and 16GB storage option

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Low-cost Amazon Kindle Fire adds three new colors and 16GB storage option August 12, 2025 Although finding super cheap (sub-$100) tablets has been possible for at least a couple of years now, finding super cheap tablets that are actually worth the money has been a much more difficult feat. Back in September of last year, Amazon finally gave us such an option with its entry level Kindle Fire —priced at just $50....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 396 words · Robert Carter

Microsoft's Arrow Launcher gets huge 3.0 update

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft’s Arrow Launcher gets huge 3.0 update July 08, 2025 Microsoft may offer their own mobile operating system, but that doesn’t mean they don’t dabble in the Android apps space themselves. From OneNote to Word and Excel, Microsoft arguably produces some of the highest quality productivity apps on the market. So what happens when the same company decides to create a launcher?...

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 296 words · Amy Graves

Nostalgia trip: 5 iconic Nokia phones HMD could bring back

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nostalgia trip: 5 iconic Nokia phones HMD could bring back August 06, 2025 Are we in for some retro mobile phone goodness at the 2017 Mobile World Congress show? A few days ago, an unconfirmed rumor claimed that HMD Global, who has the rights to make and sell phones with the Nokia brand, will announcea new version of the classic Nokia 3310 phoneat their press event in Barcelona, Spain on February 26....

August 1, 2025 · 6 min · 1085 words · Melissa Anthony

Office Depot coughs up $25 million over fake virus scans

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Office Depot coughs up $25 million over fake virus scans August 02, 2025 Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)announcedthat Office Depot agreed to pay a $25 million settlement over what the agency alleged were bogus virus scans. According to the announcement, Office Depot used diagnostics software called PC Health Check. Created and licensed by Support.com, the software would supposedly run a virus scan on a customer’s computer and conclude whether or not the computer was infected withmalware....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 241 words · Dakota Perez

OnePlus 6T will ship with Android 9 Pie, but Pie for OnePlus 5/3 series delayed

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 6T will ship with Android 9 Pie, but Pie for OnePlus 5/3 series delayed August 08, 2025 Originally, we speculated theOnePlus 6Twould launch on October 17, based onan official lock screen imageprovided byOnePlus. Although the launch is not happening tomorrow as we thought it might, it is still relatively close:October 30, two weeks from today. Since the launch of the OnePlus 6T is so close, expect more and more information about the device to start trickling out to the media....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 369 words · Ashley Wilson

OnePlus 9 Pro launch spoiled a day early courtesy of T-Mobile

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 9 Pro launch spoiled a day early courtesy of T-Mobile July 10, 2025 You don’t have to wait until March 23 to get official details for theOnePlus 9series — T-Mobile has spoiled some of the show in advance. Well-known leaker Evan Blass hasdiscoveredthat the carrier posted (and quickly removed) support pages outlining key specs for both the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro ahead of their formal debut....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 290 words · Tiffany Beard

OnePlus Buds Z2: Affordable buds get better (Update: US and Canada availability)

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus Buds Z2: Affordable buds get better (Update: US and Canada availability) June 27, 2025 Update, August 16, 2025 (09:00 AM ET):Several months after first launching them,OnePlusis finally bringing its budget-oriented Buds Z2 to North America. Starting today, you can get the OnePlus Buds Z2 in the United States for$99and in Canada for$149 CAD. There’s no difference between the North American models and the ‘buds that have been out around the world since October....

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 417 words · Christopher Evans

OnePlus X vs Nexus 5X

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus X vs Nexus 5X June 15, 2025 While there is no shortage of premium flagship smartphones out there, this year has also seen a larger focus on affordability without a compromise in quality. Two smartphones that fall in this ever-growing category are theNexus 5Xand theOnePlus X. In the former, we get the spiritual successor to the extremely popularNexus 5, while the latter isOnePlus‘ attempt to offer the best features of the flagshipOnePlus 2and its predecessor in a beautiful package....

August 1, 2025 · 14 min · 2781 words · David Diaz

Oppo's next flagship wants to best Qualcomm and Google's imaging smarts

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Oppo’s next flagship wants to best Qualcomm and Google’s imaging smarts July 18, 2025 It’s peak chip announcement season, it seems, and OPPO has just unveiled its first piece of custom silicon at its Inno Day 2021 — named MariSilicon X. This is not a fully-fledged SoC like Qualcomm’sSnapdragon 8 Gen 1orGoogle Tensor, but rather a custom image signal processor, or imaging NPU, imbued with OPPO’s machine learning smarts....

August 1, 2025 · 4 min · 764 words · Diane Barnes DDS