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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best Free Apps to Stream Videos from PC to Android Phone July 14, 2025 There may be tons of apps on the Android Market that allow streaming videos from your computer to your Android phone, but most of them come with a price. If you’re the type of person who likes to be able to stream videos to your Android phone without spending a cent, we’ve put together a list of five of the best free apps for you....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best of Android 2016: Display July 19, 2025 What is Best of Android? In Best of Android, we take the most important smartphones of the year and compare them side-by-side and in-depth. This year, with so many good phones available, we’ve stepped things up a notch and brought the 10 biggest Android phones of the year to the competition....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bloomberg: Samsung to release flip-phone-style foldable early next year June 29, 2025 Samsung is still yet torelease the Galaxy Fold, but the company is working in parallel on a new foldable that could be just a few months away. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reports that the new device will fold into a square, much like a flip-phone from the 2000s....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Chrome OS is skipping Oreo, going straight to Android 9 Pie August 12, 2025 For a long time now,Chrome OShas languished onAndroid 7.1 Nougatwhen it comes to running Android apps within the Chrome environment. The folks over atChrome Unboxeddid some tests with the latest Canary build of Chrome OS for the Google Pixelbook, and found something interesting. The Canary build of Chrome OS is no longer on Nougat, but also not onAndroid 8 Oreo....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Crowdfunding project of the week: Spark turns your phone into a DSLR camera remote August 03, 2025 The ‘Crowdfunding project of the week’ has become a tradition here at Android Authority. This article series is where we highlight some of the hottest tech novelties coming from crowd-sourcing sites likeKickstarterandIndiegogo. What is this week’s featured post all about? Let’s find out!...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Dashlane Password Manager 4.0 gets major design overhaul and adds five new languages July 06, 2025 Dashlane Password Manager 4.0 has received a complete visual overhaul that is now consistent across Android, iOS, OSX and Windows. The update adds support for five new languages and makes it even easier to change your password on sites that have been hacked. The improved “Password Changer” means you don’t even need to visit the site to change your password....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Deal: Get the BlackBerry KEYone for $100 off from now through Christmas June 20, 2025 To me, theBlackBerry KEYone‘s normal $549 price tag is a bit too steep. Its battery life is among the best, and that keyboard makes the phone stand out, for better or for worse, but similarly-powerful smartphones go for less. That’s why it’s nice to see BlackBerry knock $100 off the KEYone’s price, even if it’s temporary....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Even more Galaxy S8 leaks: batteries, US model branding, and gold version! August 09, 2025 Do you prefer to be surprised by phone launches? It’s probably too late now, but if that’s the case, you should stop readingnow. Yes, we have more leaks of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, the most thoroughly leaked devices in recent memory....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Everything you need to know about Host Card Emulation June 23, 2025 This reliance on the secure element isn’t just a problem in the U.S. In every market where banks want to enable NFC mobile payments there needs to be help from the carriers. This isn’t an ideal solution. One possible answer would be to include the necessary hardware in the actual mobile phones and so by-pass the SIM card....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Exclusive: HTC’Ocean Life' will launch as HTCU11 Life later this year August 04, 2025 After launching thewell-received U11,HTClooks to add one more device to its U-branded lineup before the end of 2017. One of our sources has confirmed that theHTC Ocean Life, which has been subject to a handful of leaks in recent months, will come to market as the HTCU11 Life later this year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook Messenger will now keep track of PayPal payments in US August 10, 2025 PayPal may have horrendous foreign exchange rates, but everyone has used it at some point in their lives. In fact, millennials use it almost every day without even knowing it: surprise, surprise,Venmois owned by PayPal! Well, the company just announced the extension of its relationship with Facebook, so it seems like PayPal is well on its way to becoming truly omnipresent....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fitbit products aren’t syncing correctly with Android 9 Pie, but there’s a workaround July 12, 2025 The stable version ofAndroid 9 Pielaunched in early August. But just because the software is stable doesn’t mean that every company was prepared for the update to arrive. Not long after the release of Pie, people withSamsungwearables (includingfitness trackers,smartwatches, and headphones) noticed that they wereunable to sync with the Samsung Gear app....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Flashbacks and Forecasts: HTCin 2017 July 21, 2025 Putting a highly questionable 2015 behind it, 2016 was proposed as a fresh start forHTC, with ventures into virtual reality with the Vive and a revampedHTC 10promising big new things. Tough market conditions had seen the company post successive quarterly losses, but there was a sense of hope that 2016 would be different....