Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. vivo launches online store in India, offers discounts up to Rs. 2,000 July 04, 2025 vivo has launched an online store in India, where you can order the company’s smartphones as well as various accessories. The manufacturer has decided to opt for the same strategy asOnePlusand Xiaomi, both of which also have an online shop set up in the country....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Waiting for Android Gingerbread 2.3? Put the Future On Your Phone today! July 10, 2025 Everyone who has an Android Phone wants to get Gingerbread right away. Unfortunately, software updates are a hot-button issue, with some hardware manufacturers, cough, cough, Samsung, being much slower than others in updating their devices with the latest and greatest flavor of Android. That being said, you can put get the best elements of Gingerbread (and even Honeycomb!...
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Want cheap true wireless earbuds? Look out for the Amazfit PowerBuds in 2020 July 19, 2025 Amazfit has finally branched out from smartwatches and fitness bands into true wireless earbuds. AtCES 2020, Huami, the company that makes Amazfit wearables, announced two new cord-cutting earbuds; one for sports wear and the other to help you sleep. Let’s break down those announcements for you....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What we know so far about Samsung’s foldable phone (Updated: Feb. 19) June 26, 2025 Update, February 19 (9:30 a.m. EST):We’ve updated this article with a new report claiming that the Samsung foldable phone will be sold under the Samsung Galaxy Fold name. Samsungconfirmed the first details about its foldable phone at the Samsung Developers Conference on June 10, 2025....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi introduces new accessories in India July 22, 2025 Xiaomi rang in its second birthday in India last week with a three-day sale that brought with it crazy discounts, offers, and Re. 1 flash deals. It may be over, but Xiaomi did introduce a few new products during the sale, including a 10,000mAh Mi Power Bank, Mi Capsule Earphones, and Mi In-Ear Headphones Pro Gold variant, that may not be heavily discounted anymore, but still fall in line with Xiaomi’s aggressive pricing strategy....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi: 5 things you didn’t know about the Apple of the East July 03, 2025 Once thethird largest smartphone manufacturerin the world,Xiaomiwas founded in 2010. Its biggest markets are China and India, where the company overtookSamsungat the beginning of the year, becoming thehighest selling brandin the country. Xiaomi is often referred to as the Apple of the East, mainly because its products resemble those of the iPhone maker....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You can now force-enable a dark theme for sites in Chrome: Here’s how to do it July 11, 2025 Since Google Chrome Canary 74, users could enable a dark theme for Chrome itself. The feature improved with subsequent updates, withCanary v78now letting users force-enable a dark theme for all sites. According toXDA-Developers, the feature is available as a flag in the latest Canary version....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You can now grab the Essential Phone kernel source code June 09, 2025 TheEssential Phonehas been a bit of a mixed bag since it was announced. It hasmissed promised deadlinesand shippedwithout the 360-degree camerathat was offered in a pre-order bundle. Reviewers have raved over thephysical constructionof the phone but lamented over its rather barren software and lackluster pictures. Despite the rocky start, Essential now seems to be making all the right moves....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You told us: Here’s what OS your next smartwatch will run August 04, 2025 There are a wealth ofsmartwatchesto choose from with each packing a list of strengths and weaknesses. Some consumers might base their buying decision on hardware, while others may consider the OS that the watch runs. We focused on the latter in arecent poll, asking users which OS their next smartwatch will run....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. A bot version of you may have helped defraud millions from advertisers July 08, 2025 You might thinkBuzzFeedis simply a site filled with tests tofigure out your Patronusorwhich Power Ranger you’re most likely to be. However,BuzzFeedfrequently dishes out some amazing investigative journalism, and yesterday it dropped a bombshell report. According tothe exposé, a team of criminal hackers employed a complicated — but ingenious — system to defraud online advertisers out of millions....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Acer’s first flexible Snapdragon 7c Chromebook debuts for under $400 August 08, 2025 Acer introduced a slew of new additions to its product portfolio, chief of which is a newChromebookand the Halo smart speaker. The Acer Chromebook Spin 513 is the firm’s first machine sporting Qualcomm’sSnapdragon 7cchipset. Announced late last year, the silicon employs an octa-core Kyro 468 CPU alongside the Adreno 618 GPU....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 4.7 available this Friday in the US and Canada, priced at $180 June 04, 2025 While Alcatel isn’t one of the most popular smartphone brands out there by any means, much of the tech world was blown away when theIdol 3 5.5-inch was released earlierthis year, packing excellent specs and a killer price tag that rivaled devices like theASUS ZenFone 2and the Motorola Moto G series....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Chinese ARM vendor reportedly left developer backdoor in kernel for Android July 27, 2025 Allwinner are a Chinese based company that supply the processor to manylow-end Android tablets, and many other devices includingARM-based PC’s, including theJide Remix laptop, and even some set-top boxes. The significance of this relatively low-profile company in the Android sphere is that it apparently shipped a version of its Linux kernel with a backdoor built-in to those devices; not just any backdoor, but an incredibly easy to access backdoor, one that can be exploited by simply sending the text “rootmydevice” to the sunxi_debug process....
