Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 8 Pro international giveaway: Your Reader’s Choice favorite! June 05, 2025 NOTE:This giveaway has now ended.Check out the latest giveaway here. It’s time for the Sunday giveaway! Like every week, we’re giving away a brand new Android phone to one luckyAndroid Authorityreader. A big congratulations to the winners of last week’sSamsung Galaxy S20 giveaway, Axel N. from France....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus confirms new Bullets Wireless buds are coming (Update: images) August 06, 2025 Update, June 18, 2025 (7:27AM ET):OnePlus confirmed earlier today that it’s working on new Bullets Wireless earbuds (see original article below), revealing some impressive fast-charge tech too. Serial leaker Evan Blass has quickly followed up with images onPatreonshowing the new earbuds in action, giving us a better idea of what to expect....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Open thread: Which apps are better on iOS than on Android? June 04, 2025 It’s open thread time once again, folks. And with this edition, we take a look into app ecosystems. In particular, we compare apps from two of the biggest mobile ecosystems today: iOS and Android. While the iTunes App Store and Google Play are almost at par in terms of app availability and quality, there are still some gaps, notably in how companies choose to launch their apps on one platform, but not on the other....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Pixel Fold camera details leak: Expect a downgrade from Pixel 6 Jul 31, 2025 Google’s first Pixel foldable, unofficially dubbed the Pixel Fold, has been in the works for a while now. The device has been leaked via news outlets and APK teardowns, and it now looks like another teardown may have given us camera details. 9to5Googledug into the latest version of the Google Camera app, revealing camera sensor details for a foldable phone codenamed “Pipit” (formerly “Passport”)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Poor sleep? We can’t entirely blame our smartphones for it August 17, 2025 Smartphones have proven to be the best partners you can take to bed. They won’t sneak out in the morning and will keep you connected to everything that is awesome about life. In fact, a recentstudy from Bank of Americacorroborates that 71% of us sleep with our phones....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Record-breaking Galaxy S8 pre-orders top 1 million in South Korea July 11, 2025 Samsung’s predictions that theGalaxy S8 and S8 Pluswould be a hit with consumers and possibly even outsell their predecessors are looking to be accurate. According to data collected from carriers in South Korea, the new duo have already received over one million pre-orders in the country....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: LG to release the upcoming G6 on March 10 July 17, 2025 Last year, LG released its flagship device —the G5— on March 31, while theSamsung Galaxy S7andS7 edgebecame available on March 11. According to a report fromETnews, LG has a different strategy set up this year. The company’s goal is to release the upcoming G6 before Samsung’s flagship devices hit markets across the world, which isrumored to happen in mid-April....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung has quietly fixed the Galaxy Note 5 S Pen issue June 14, 2025 When theSamsung Galaxy Note 5released back in August of last year, many were impressed with the new, modified S Pen it shipped with. Rather than utilizing a pull-to-detach approach, the stylus instead isspring-loaded and can be ejected by pressing it. Unfortunately, the new installation was not withouta potential problem for thosewho might accidentally seek to stow the stylus in reverse....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung invests in R&D more than any other tech company July 30, 2025 Samsung Electronics isprojected to post solid earnings this quarter, despite theGalaxy Note 7 fiasco. Far from being a deathblow, the recall of Samsung’s premier phone will only have a limited impact on its bottom line, thanks to the company’s leading position in virtually every segment of the electronics industry....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Pay is growing faster than Apple Pay June 27, 2025 AlthoughApple Paycurrently has more monthly users thanSamsung PayandAndroid Paycombined, an analyst cited in a recent report by Bloomberg claims that Samsung Pay is growing faster than Apple Pay. But it’s not just Samsung Pay that’s growing quickly. Both Samsung Pay and Android Pay have the same number of monthly active users – five million each – and both came out at the same time....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Scheduled Routines finally arrive for Google Home, but with usual caveats August 14, 2025 AtGoogle I/O 2018— which was back at the beginning of May —Googlepromised two things that would come soon toGoogle Home: custom Routines and the ability to schedule Routines. We gotcustom Routinespretty soon after the announcement but scheduled Routines were still M.I.A. But today, we finally are seeing scheduled Routines in the Google Home app....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Signs point to HUAWEI giving up on America August 11, 2025 Huawei, the world’s third-largest smartphone manufacturer behind onlySamsung and Apple, knows that to become number one it must have an American presence. But with allegations that the company issecretly run by the Chinese government, and worries that Chinese companies might soon havetoo much sway over the world’s technology, breaking America has been an uphill climb....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Spotify makes it easier to get to your music and podcasts August 19, 2025 Today, Spotifyannouncedan updated look to the ‘Your Library’ tab that changes up how it organizes your music and podcasts. Currently, the Your Library tab crams playlists, songs, albums, artists, podcasts, and videos in the same area near the top. The new design creates two new Music and Podcasts sections, with the latter featuring three categories: episodes, downloads, and shows....