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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The very first decrease of mobile voice call time was just recorded in Britain July 17, 2025 According to the Office of Communication (Ofcom), viaReuters, people in the United Kingdom spent less time making voice calls on their mobile phones this year than they did last year. This is the first time that’s ever happened since Ofcom started tracking the data....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This guy 3D-printed a power bank Pokedex phone case for Pokemon Go July 11, 2025 Well, let’s face it. Your chances of being the very best like no one ever was just went out the window. That is, unless you happen to be guy who designed and 3D-printed a phone case thattransforms your phone into a Pokedex. That dude’s the real Pokemon Master, and the rest of us can do nothing from here on out but live in his magnificent shadow....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Tiny Troopers 2: Special Ops comes to Android, free to download August 05, 2025 I spent countless hours playing the first iteration of Tiny Troopers, and now I know exactly what I will be doing during my days off. Popular developer Chillingo has released a successor to the mentioned title through the Google Play Store. The new game goes by the name of Tiny Troopers 2: Special Ops and it’s free to download, so you might as well check it out....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Today’s the last day to get the pre-order goodies with your Galaxy S21 June 11, 2025 If you’re planning on buying a device in the Galaxy S21 family, the clock is ticking. General sales for the three new flagship phones start tomorrow, January 29. That means today is the last day to get in your pre-orders. Related:Samsung Galaxy S21 buyer’s guide: Everything you need to know...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What exactly is modularity and is the Moto Z really modular? July 31, 2025 With the arrival of theMoto Zthe discussion about modularity has fired up again. But there’s a side of the question that goes beyond the simple extrapolation thatMoto Modsaremodules. What exactly is modularity and are theLG G5or Moto Z truly modular phones like the Project Ara phone?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Where are the 2TB microSD cards? July 24, 2025 Ultra high-capacity microSD cards are a promise mostly unfulfilled. The SD Association approved the SDXC spec back in January 2009, which supported memory cards up to 2TB. Granted, that was a theoretical maximum at the time. It took the industry a whole 10 years (!!!) to actually bring 1TB microSD cards to the market and 2TB microSD cards have simply never materialized....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Why an (unofficial) anti-Amazon alliance is a very good thing August 24, 2025 In late 2015, an eBay tech briefing startled me with the fact that someone on a mobile device was buying a car on eBay every 20 minutes. At the time, eBay was waiting for the first house to be bought on a smartphone or tablet, a feat that surely has happened by now....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Wild leak suggests Xiaomi could be be planning the biggest Mi Band redesign ever June 02, 2025 In the world of wild rumors, a new one about Xiaomi’s plans for theMi Bandhas just entered the mix. A leak claiming to show a slide from an official company presentation suggests that Xiaomi may be planning to change the Mi Band form factor we’ve come to know to over the years....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Wonky Tower is a fun physics-based puzzle builder from the maker of Stronghold August 16, 2025 Firefly Studios, the developer studio behind 17 years’ worth of PC games including Stronghold has decided to enter the mobile gaming sphere with a fun little puzzle game called Wonky Tower. Featuring physics similar to that found inAngry Birds, you must build rickety towers to help a little monkey called Pogo fetch bananas....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Your next power bank could be made out of stinky fruit August 16, 2025 Power banks aren’t particularly interesting pieces of technology. They are typically simple bricks that help your exciting tech’s battery last longer. Thanks to theUniversity of Sydney, that could all change in the future. Researcher Vincent Gomes is an academic associate professor for the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the university....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. YouTube accused of illegally collecting data from kids June 28, 2025 The Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), written in 1998, prevents companies from collecting data from children under the age of 13. That is why children are not allowed to useYouTubeand Google created theYouTube Kids appas an alternative. However, in a complaint filed on Monday, 20 child-advocacy groups accused Google of illegally collecting data from kids via the YouTube Kids app....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ZTE will reportedly pay a ton of money to the US to lift its hardware ban August 07, 2025 It’s looking more and more likeZTEwill be saved, thanks to a new agreement between the China-based smartphone maker and the U.S. government.Reutersreports, via unnamed sources, that ZTE has signed a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Commerce Department that would allow ZTE to once again buy parts for its devices from U....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5G Moto Mod image leaks, but are we even ready for it? July 06, 2025 Lenovo has some pretty niftyMoto Mods, but it looks like the5GMoto Mod for the upcomingMoto Z3 Playcould be one of the more interesting ones. Images of the add-on (and smartphone) have leaked viaXDA-Developers, showing us a rather chunky mod. It actually resembles a power bank mod, albeit with a protrusion at the top — ostensibly for the antenna....