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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. December 2019 Android security patch is here (Update: Factory images available) August 07, 2025 Update: July 01, 2025 at 4:56 p.m. ET:Pixel 4 userson Redditare claiming that the December 2019 Android security patch is now rolling out to their devices. If you have a Pixel 4, the update should make its way to your device soon. If you don’t want to wait for the OTA, the factory images and OTA files are available for download now, but flash or sideload them at your own risk....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Did smartphones get a lot more expensive in 2020? Let’s look at the numbers August 02, 2025 The verybest smartphone hardwarecan be expensive, and increasingly so based on recent yearly trends. It’s been a couple of years since phones broke the $1,000 price barrier, and it feels like prices have continued on their upward trajectory. But was this actually true in 2020?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Dota Underlords: Everything you need to know July 31, 2025 If you haven’t been playing the Dota 2Auto Chessmod all year, you’ve probably been playing it all week thanks to the release of Valve’s official version: Dota Underlords. The fantasy strategy title rolled out on June 20 and immediately got its claws intonumerous gamers— quickly reaching over a million downloads....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Double vision: Motorola has 2 new commercials for the Droid Turbo 2 July 04, 2025 Motorola may be having a hard time these days thanks toa lawsuit that was just filed against it. Thankfully, it can at relish in the fact that itsMoto X Force/Droid Turbo 2isvirtually indestructible. Thanks toShatterShield technology, the product is basically impervious to whatever kind of assaultyoumight put it through or, as the case may be, life does itself – accidentsdohappen after all....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Forget tap and pay: tap and control is the future July 19, 2025 NFC is a clever little technology that has helped lead to some big developments: most notably Tap and Pay systems. But it also has its limitations, one of which is that its tags are required in both electronics devices that would interact. In the future, smartphones may instead make use of an electromagnetic emissions sensing solution to achieve something similar, without the same tech appearing on another device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. FTC wants to know how TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook use your data August 19, 2025 Are you worried that social video giants are mishandling your data? You’re not alone. AsThe Vergereports, the FTC hasorderedAmazon, Discord, Facebook (including WhatsApp), Reddit, Snap, Twitter, YouTube andTikTokparent ByteDance to provide info on how they collect, use and present personal data. On top of wanting to know how Facebook, TikTok and others gather that data, the FTC has asked the companies to show how they determine what content an ads you see, whether or not they use algorithms and analytics with data, and how they study “user engagement....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S4 Active vs regular S4 - what’s the difference? August 15, 2025 It starts with one One thing you’ll immediately notice about the Galaxy S4 Active is that instead of having just one hardware button on the front below the touchscreen display, it has three — a Back button, a Menu button, and a Home button. And overall, its body is a little less rounder than the original, almost as if to physically demonstrate the fact that it belongs in the rugged phone category....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google ‘Coral’ spotted at AOSP and Geekbench: but what is it? July 05, 2025 A potential mobile device named Google ‘Coral’ has landed on benchmarking websiteGeekbench(viaMySmartPrice). The device was benchmarked yesterday apparently running Android Q with a Snapdragon 855 chipset and 6GB of RAM. The Coral name also appears in theAndroid Open Source Project(AOSP), where many Android devices and features have been spotted before their official announcements....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Drive app update lets you upload files directly to their destination folder July 20, 2025 Google has just unleashed an update to their Drive app that has rocked the world and changed everything. Okay, so it hasn’t really done that, but it’s still pretty nice. Previously when you uploaded anything from your smartphone or tablet to Google Drive, it would be consigned to an “uploads” folder until you deliberately moved it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google engineer of 13 years resigns, says company “can no longer innovate” Jun 07, 2025 A Google engineer who exited the company on Wednesday haspublished a blog post(viaCNBC) outlining his thoughts on some of its failings. Steve Yegge left Google after 13 years, stating the main reason for his departure was that it “can no longer innovate.” Yegge outlines several ways in which he has observed this....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google is finally shutting down Picasa June 19, 2025 I think we all knew this would happen eventually, and the day is finally here – Google has justannouncedthat it will soon retirePicasa. For those unfamiliar, Picasa is a photo-sharing and storing website that’s been in Google’s lineup since 2004. Ultimately, Google stopped rolling out any notable updates to the service, so it was only a matter of time until the photo website was shut down....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google looks to place a greater focus on Assistant and its own devices in 2018 August 18, 2025 Googlehas made great strides withAssistant, but the search giant still has plenty of work to do to catch up with Amazon’sAlexa. One way Google is reportedly looking to do that is by launching a revamped online store in February. Bloombergreports the online store will place a much greater emphasis on its own products, like Nest devices, in an attempt to double down on Assistant....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google publishes free Android 5.0 Lollipop Quick Start Guide August 14, 2025 This just in, we have potential names for the next few Android builds:Huckle Berry and Rye(alasCherryis a no-go). All kidding aside, Android 5.0 is more than just a barbershop haircut, it’s the latest and greatest build of Google’s ever-evolving OS. Although the newMaterial Designinterface has been made available to existing users in a piecemeal-fashion via specific apps, the full-blown experience is something to behold....