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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Qualcomm’s high horse: can anyone knock them off? June 02, 2025 Qualcommhas been the biggest player in the mobile SoC market for the past few years, powering a wide selection of Android smartphones and tablets with its range of high and mid performance processors. However, the loss of Samsung as a major customer, troubles with its high-end Snapdragon 810 processor and the growth in cost-effective smartphones has left Qualcomm to rethink their market position with amajor workforce restructure....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: LG V30 tipped to sport a curved display like the Galaxy S8 August 15, 2025 LG Display already has some experience with making curved OLED panels. Last year, the company supplied curved displays in small quantities to Xiaomi — for theMi Note 2— but didn’t mass produce them. According to a report from South Korea’sThe Investor, that will soon change....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Popular Android barcode scanner app found to harbor malware July 04, 2025 Some popular Google Play Store apps may seem harmless at first, but a new report reminds us that we should always be cognizant that apps can change.Malwarebytes(h/t:9to5Google) has discovered that a popular barcode scanner app is infected with malware. The app in question, simply called Barcode Scanner, is developed by Lavabird Ltd....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung killing the physical home button is a big deal June 13, 2025 Since the original Galaxy S, the physical home button has been a staple ofSamsung’sflagship Android smartphones, a key part of the company’s mobile design language, and a tactile feature prefered by many. The arrival of the Galaxy S5 saw the home button take on a new role as the hub for the company’s fingerprint scanner, making the feature a key part of Samsung’s Knox security platform as well....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung might be going all out this year with a Galaxy Tab S7 Plus, see it here July 29, 2025 It appearsSamsungmay be going for a new company record of how many flagship devices it can release in one year. While we fully expected theSamsung Galaxy Tab S7 leakwe saw a few days ago, we didn’t really expect to see the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 Plus follow right behind (viaPigtouin partnership with@OnLeaks)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s new smartphone theming app is called Theme Park, available now June 09, 2025 According toTizen Help, Samsung is rolling out a new application designed for smartphone theming. Samsung Theme Park, as the new app is called, is an offshoot of the popularGood Locksuite of tools that allows you to make your Samsung smartphone your own. Using Samsung Theme Park, you can quickly and easily re-theme your phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s newest Lollipop update now displays security patch information August 18, 2025 Security is certainly the buzzword around the mobile industry right now. ‘Stagefright’ still isn’t put to bed, and the amount of security concern among smartphone users has led some manufacturers to agree to keep up with Google’s monthly security patches. Samsung is demonstrating transparency in this endeavor by adding a security patch information panel to the settings of Lollipop devices, letting users see when the last patch was applied....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sprint sues AT&T, claims ‘5G E’ branding is false advertising June 04, 2025 Sprint has filed a lawsuit against competitor AT&T over the latter’s use of “5G E” branding on certain phones. Sprint contends in the lawsuit,published byEngadget, that AT&T is “deliberately deceiving consumers” into thinking their 4G phones have been upgraded to 5G. Sprint is seeking an injunction that prevents AT&T from using “5G E” on devices and advertising....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The only reason the Pixel line isn’t Android’s crown jewel is Google Jul 25, 2025 Yesterday, some rarebehind-the-scenes newsbroke related to Google and its line of Pixel phones. In a nutshell, some of the leads at Google expressed disappointment regarding the design of thePixel 4 and Pixel 4 XLbefore the devices even launched, and the line’s poor sales are proving their gut feelings correct....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The TCL 10 Series redefines affordable flagships (Update: North America date) August 03, 2025 Update, June 11, 2025 (04:30 PM ET):Originally, TCL only gave us a vague idea of release dates for its new TCL 10 series of smartphones. Now, though, we have a more specific date for at least two of the phones in one area of the world....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. TSMC to start testing 7nm mobile processors July 14, 2025 As you may know,Samsung has recently announced that it has begun mass producing its 10nm chipsets– presumably its home-grownExynos 8895 as well as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 830 processors. Well, it looks like Samsung isn’t the only one producing advanced, ultra-efficient mobile processors. TSMC just announced that with the new Synopsys certification, it is now ready to test chipsets built on the 7nm process....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Upset about seeing ads on your NVIDIA Shield TV home screen? You’re not alone. June 09, 2025 Smart TV UIs are a great avenue for OEMs to earn some money by displaying ads to users. We’ve seen Amazon serve up ads on the Fire TV interface. Roku also posts ads on the home screen of its devices. However, Google’sAndroid TVhome interface has long been an ad-free space....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Verizon is merging Yahoo and AOL into Oath this summer June 10, 2025 Two of the oldest online brand names, Yahoo and AOL, are going to merge their operations into one company under their new owner.Verizon, which already owns AOL and will take control of Yahoo’s core assets later this year, will combine both divisions once the Yahoo deal is complete....