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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. AutoVoice for Google Home adds voice support for Tasker commands August 17, 2025 If you own aGoogle Homeand want to expand the number of commands that it can understand, developer Joao Dias has just launched AutoVoice support for the device. It’s supposed to offer you both direct and natural language support for commands that will be recognized by the popular automation appTasker....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. CAT S41 review: Truly a niche device July 16, 2025 What we like What we don’t like Our scores As our mobile devices move towards thinner and more elegant form factors, we lose track of a lot of the aspects the really matter in a phone. Battery life. Durability. These have been falling by the wayside since the days of the flip phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Chrooma keyboards snags 3.0 update, gestures, Google Now integration August 02, 2025 Chroomais a keyboard that takes a lot of its cues from the default Google keyboard, but just because it’s a fairly simplistic little tool doesn’t mean that new features aren’t in the cards for it. This lightweight Android keyboard already gives you a slew of customization options, but now we’re seeing some new perks arrive....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Dozens of Samsung mobile division executives dismissed from posts June 29, 2025 Top levelSamsungexecutives may have managed toescaped the axein Samsung’s latest reshuffle, but dozens of other executives have not been so lucky. The under-performing mobile division has been hardest hit, with dozens of executives relieved from their posts in the past week. Mobile unit employees who lost their jobs this Wednesday include the division’s Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents and Executive Vice Presidents, according to sources close to Samsung, including some in the development, marketing and media solution departments....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Exclusive: Video shows how the LG Wing might tackle gaming, and it’s awesome August 10, 2025 Earlier this week, we publisheda leaked videoof what appears to be a close-to-final version of the upcomingLG Wing. That video showed a driver using the primary display on the Wing for navigation while using the secondary display for a music player and answering calls....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 7 coming back as Galaxy Note Fan Edition [Update: price revealed] Jul 03, 2025 Bixby is Samsung’s Siri-like digital assistant found on theSamsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus.Despite being an anticipated new smartphone feature from Samsung, Bixby was somewhat undercooked at the time of the S8 launch and has only just recently been expanded with thevoice portionof the service....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google aims lower than Android Go with new $22m investment July 17, 2025 KaiOS is one of the fastest growing mobile platforms right now, bringing smart functionality to feature-phones in emerging markets. Google has evidently been paying attention, because the Mountain View firm has made a $22-million investment in the company. The KaiOS team announced the news on the companywebsite, saying the investment will help accelerate development and deployment of the platform....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google announces big Android Wear update that brings support for interactive watch faces August 08, 2025 Google has justannounceda big update to theAndroid Wearplatform that will make your wearable much more functional. The headline feature of this update is support for interactive watch faces, which will make it easy to change the watch face’s design, get more information or even launch a specific application with just a tap....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Messages gets two handy features to make sense of your inbox June 14, 2025 Google Messagesis the default SMS app on a variety of Android phones around the world, offering plenty of welcome features. Now, Google is introducing a major update that should help you make more sense of your texts. The search giant has announced (h/t:9to5Google) that it’s launching a new categories feature, using machine learning to sort messages by personal transactions, offers, OTPs, and standard personal messages (for conversations with saved contacts)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google neglects Tasker again, takes away SMS/MMS and call capabilities (Update: Perhaps not) July 30, 2025 Update, June 20, 2025 (4:02PM EST):In the Taskersubreddit, Tasker owner and developer joaomgcd said that Google added task automation apps as exceptions in its exception list. As a result, Tasker is one step closer to regaining SMS and call permissions. Original article:If you use the popular automation appTaskerto do anything with SMS/MMS or phone calls, we have some bad news for you....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Hands-on with BlackBerry’s Android-powered ‘Mercury’ at CES 2017 August 11, 2025 BlackBerryhas taken many different forms over the years. It used to be one of the top smartphone manufacturers in the world, then things started going a bit downhill for the company once iOS and Android came around. After years of launching numerous different handsets that weren’t able to steal much marketshare away from the other guys, BlackBerry decided to get into the Android smartphone space itself....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How a yearly release cycle could improve the Android experience June 01, 2025 Back in 2010, when Andy Rubin was still heading up Android, he toldMercury News, “Our product cycle is now, basically twice a year, and it will probably end up being once a year when things start settling down, because a platform that’s moving — it’s hard for developers to keep up....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC One M9 and M8 should receive Android 6.0 Marshmallow sometime soon June 07, 2025 Android 6.0 Marshmallowhas already been available on Nexus devices for some time now, and it’s finally starting to make its way to other Android smartphones across the board. Some variants of theLG G4,Moto X Styleand2014 Moto Xhave already gotten the update, and so has theGoogle Play Edition HTCOne M8....