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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. POCO F3 GT lands with 120Hz display, gaming triggers to take on OnePlus Nord 2 August 12, 2025 A day after OnePlus launched the Nord 2 in India starting at a sub-Rs 30,000 price tag, rival POCO has also launched its competing phone in the form of the POCO F3 GT. The device is a rebadged version of the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition which launched in China back in April....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Questions I’d like answered before I hype Google Stadia August 13, 2025 Now, I’m not writing this piece from a place of animosity and I’m not trying to convince anyone off of the hype train. However, we’ve been through this before. After all, if anyone could getcloud gamingright, it was NVIDIA, right? Or maybeMicrosoft with its xCloud. Gamers have been waiting for years for companies to get cloud gaming right....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Redmi Note 9 Pro, Pro Max: Price and availability (Update: India sales begin) June 22, 2025 Update, June 15, 2025 (3:50AM ET):Xiaomi is finally making the Redmi Note 9 Pro Max available in India after first launching it back in March. The Max model was supposed to go on sale starting March 25. However, Xiaomi had to delay it owing to the coronavirus lockdown in India....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus sales cross 20 million units June 18, 2025 It looks like sales of theSamsung Galaxy S8series are still going strong. According to a report fromThe Investor(citing market research firmStrategy Analytics), shipments of the two smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, crossed 20 million units sometime last month. The report also claims that Samsung shipped 278,800 Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus units per day on average since their launch in April....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung reveals European prices and launch dates for 2017 Galaxy J phones July 04, 2025 The official Samsung website in the Netherlands has officially revealed the prices and approximate launch time frames in Europe for the 2017 editions of the mid-range Galaxy J3, J5, and J7 phones. This announcement comes just a few weeks after theGalaxy J3 (2017) quietly went on salein the US, viaAT&T....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung to try and fix Galaxy S8 red screen problem with update, might not work July 17, 2025 We reported on apeculiar problemaffecting South KoreanGalaxy S8s a few days ago, whereby some of the device displays had a noticeably red tint. Since the story broke, a number of interesting theories about the cause of the issue have been voiced. A Samsung official suggested it is just a matter of color calibration that can be adjusted manually, whileThe Investorreceivedthree other explanationsfrom experts — all of which indicated that the issue is hardware rather than software-based....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro may boast 28-hour battery life August 23, 2025 There might not be much mystery left to theGalaxy Buds Proby the time they’re official. Well-known leaker Ishan Agarwal has given91mobileswhat he says are full specs for the Galaxy Buds Pro, and they’re good news if battery life is a deciding factor in your choice of true wireless earbuds....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sharp may sell off its smartphone LCD display business August 13, 2025 Sharp, which manufactures a variety ofliquid crystal displays(LCD) for mobile devices, is looking to spin off part of its panel making unit, say reports from Japan’s manufacturing industry. The company is facing its third annual net loss in the past four years and is promising a restructure in exchange for renewed funding....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Slimmed-down Weather Timeline app is coming back soon under new management June 04, 2025 The much-loved weather app known asWeather Timelineunfortunately got removed from theGoogle Play Storelast fall. Due to rising costs, the app’s creator —Sam Ruston— elected to hide the app from new users to keep functionality working for existing installs. However, a different company ended up acquiring Weather Timeline....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Thanks, Apple: Intel will auction off smartphone modem patents, exit industry June 20, 2025 Back in April,Apple announcedthat it would cease all litigation against chip manufacturerQualcommand enter a new partnership with the company that will see Qualcomm modems installed in new crops of iPhones. On that same day,Intel announcedit was exiting the smartphone modem business entirely. Now, according toIAM, Intel is going one step further and auctioning off many of its smartphone modem assets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The biggest smartphone fails of 2021 August 18, 2025 I’m pretty sure 2021 didn’t turn out quite how some envisioned it might. We entered the year with plenty of hope, that’s for sure. Practically anything at all should have been better than 2020, right? Unfortunately, 2021 failed to live up to its potential. Covid continues to plague the globe despite the arrival of vaccines in late 2020....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The HUAWEI P11 might come with a 40 MP rear camera and 24 MP front camera August 08, 2025 Well, this is exciting. Leaker Evan Blass has gotten his hands on some materials that indicate the HUAWEI P11 could come with an unprecedented camera setup. In a tweet published earlier today, which you can see below, it was suggested that the next device in HUAWEI’s P series could house a triple-lens, 40 MP rear camera setup with 5x hybrid zoom and a 24 MP selfie camera....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The most popular Android versions of 2018, as used by Pornhub viewers August 06, 2025 Pornhubrecently posted its year in review, charting the most popular search terms, operating systems and browsers used in 2018. Now, the company has revealed the most popular Android versions used by its viewers in the year that was. Android Oreowas the number one pick for 2018, Pornhub revealed toAndroid Authority, accounting for 41....