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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Teracube 2e is a $200 eco-phone with a 4-year warranty — but is it good? June 02, 2025 There are a lot of ethical problems within the smartphone industry. Labor exploitation, questionable methods of extracting precious metals,e-waste, carbon footprints — the list goes on and on. Obviously, no one smartphone is going to change all that, but the Teracube 2e is here to do what it can....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The ASUS ZenFone V Live and Samsung Galaxy Tab E 32 GB land at Verizon July 08, 2025 Verizonis announcing two new devices just in time for the holidays. The ASUS ZenFone V Live and Samsung Galaxy Tab E 32 GB are now available through the carrier. ASUS ZenFone V The ASUS ZenFone V Live is a Verizon Wireless exclusive....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Game Boy helped me become who I am today, even if I never had one August 23, 2025 Things were rough at first, but they improved once my folks found their footing. As a result, they weren’t ashamed to spoil me and my brother. My parents tried their hardest to get us things that we wanted. They didn’t see that as spoiling, however — my parents came from almost nothing and wanted to provide better and more comfortable lives for me and my brother....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Pixel 2 Now Playing feature will soon save your song history July 29, 2025 WhenGooglerolled out theGoogle Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, it came with a nifty ambient display feature calledNow Playing. The feature constantly listens for music and, without using a data connection, displays the song and artist on your phone. Some tinkerers over atXDA Developerspulled apart the recently released Pixel Ambient Services APK and discovered that Google is likely rolling out a history feature for Now Playing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This upcoming Redmi phone could be an endurance champion (Updated) July 23, 2025 Update: August 18, 2025 (7:09 AM ET):That didn’t take too long. A few hours after we posted apparently leaked details regarding a Redmi phone with a 6,000mAh battery, China’s TENAA authority has revealed images of the device in question (model number M2010J19SC). The images show a phone with a blue colorway, a Samsung-style camera housing, and what could be a side-mounted fingerprint scanner....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Valve releases Portal-themed test to find out if your PC is VR-ready July 20, 2025 Do you have any idea if your computer is virtual reality-ready or not? Perhaps this new tool from Valve will help you find out. Valve, the game developer that’s working with HTCto launch theVive VR headset, has just launched a new tool to help you check whether or not your computer is capable of running virtual reality content....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: You think OnePlus is relying too much on gimmicky cameras July 13, 2025 OnePlus phones have many powerful specs and features, but their cameras aren’t the best you can get in the market. Underperforming cameras are a constant theme with brand for the most part, even though prices of its flagship phones aresteadily going upwards....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Would you pay for an ad-free search engine? August 11, 2025 Google’sdominant brand of web searchhas been one of the few constants on the World Wide Web over the past couple of decades. The tech giant’s near-monopoly on search traffic, combined with in-search ad placements and data collection have made it one of the most profitable enterprises in the world....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 and Note 5 Pro: Everything you need to know July 11, 2025 2017 was a great year forXiaomi. In October, the company exceededthe revenue goal of RMB 100 billion. Towards the end of the year, it also became thetop smartphone vendor in India, the company’s biggest market outside of China. In its first launch event in 2018 in India, Xiaomi has announced two smartphones – Redmi Note 5 and Redmi Note 5 Pro....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Year in review: The best streaming movies of 2021 June 17, 2025 2021 was supposed to be the year people would return to the theaters to watch movies. However, thanks to the continued threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, movie studios continued to delay major film releases. They also sold off many films to streaming services, fearing they wouldn’t be big box office hits in the current environment....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You told us: Here’s what you value more between camera software and hardware July 24, 2025 Smartphone makers really focus on the camera performance of their devices these days. From a time when phones used to have single shooters, we’ve now come to an era of multiple camera sensors that promise everything from high-res photos, portrait capture, detailed macro shots, bright low-light images, HDR, and much more....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ZTE partners with Qualcomm and Wearsafe on personal security wearables July 30, 2025 ZTE, Qualcomm, and Wearsafe announced a new partnership designed to bring personal security tracking to wearables devices. The partnership, announced at atCES 2018, will see ZTE designing and building security focused-wearables based on Qualcomm’s existingSnapdragon Wear 1100platform, combined with personal security software provided by Wearsafe. Personal emergency response systems (PERS) are sometimes also called medical alarms or medical alerts....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week - Android Apps Weekly [315] July 04, 2025 Welcome to the 315th edition ofAndroid Apps Weekly! Here are the big headlines from the last week: Mr Pumpkin 2: Walls of Kowloon Price:$1.99 Mr Pumpkin: Walls of Kowloon is a neat puzzle game with a fun premise. It takes place in Kowloon Walled City, a real place where 50,000 people lived in a space the size of a city block....