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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google and LG unveil world’s highest-resolution OLED on-glass VR display August 04, 2025 A few months ago, we told you thatGoogle and LGwould unveil an incredibly high-resolution display designed for augmented andvirtual reality headsets. Today, the two companiesunveiled that very display, and it’s a doozy. As expected, the 4.3-inch OLED 18MP display has a resolution of 4,800 x 3,840. The display has a pixel density of 1,443PPI and a 120Hz refresh rate....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pay is now available in 28 countries thanks to Chile, France July 12, 2025 Google Payis the official payment solution on Android, if ever there were one. It’s been slowly making its way around the world, and you can now add two more countries to the list. The payment service has landed in France, according toFrAndroid(h/t:9to5Google), allowing you to make payments in apps, on websites, and (of course) in stores....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s how Google made portrait mode on the Pixel 3 even better June 06, 2025 Googlehas detailed one of the major photography accomplishments it achieved on thePixel 3on itsAI blog. In the post published yesterday, Google discussed how it improved portrait mode between the Pixel 2 and the Pixel 3. Portrait mode is a popular smartphone photography mode that blurs the background of a scene while maintaining focus on the foreground subject (what’s sometimes called the bokeh effect)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. History made: Facebook daily use declined for first time ever last quarter August 25, 2025 Over the past few years,Facebookhas had its fair share of controversies. TheCambridge Audio Analytica scandalwas a big one, but the various security breaches were also pretty bad. However, none of this stopped people from actually using the site. Every quarter, like clockwork, the average number of daily users went up or at least stayed stagnant....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How the iPhone’s reveal 10 years ago today changed Google forever July 19, 2025 On June 29, 2025, a crowd gathered at the yearly (and now defunct) Macworld conference in San Francisco to hear the latest keynote speech from Apple’s late co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs. As it turned out, the speech may have been the biggest one of his life, and the largest announcement in Apple’s history....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to create an SMS app part 2 – intercepting messages, reading contacts and more June 18, 2025 Inpart one, we saw how to create the bare bones of an SMS app. That is to say, we created a utility that could send and receive messages but that wasn’t exactly in a state to replace your current messaging app any time soon....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to take a screenshot on the LG G3 July 15, 2025 Taking a screenshot is one of the most simple and useful feature that you can take advantage of on your Android smartphone. For the majority of Android phones, taking a screenshot involves pressing volume down and power simultaneously. If you have a Samsung, it’s typically volume down and home....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HP’s Chromebook x2 tablet is the $599 iPad Pro alternative you’ve always wanted June 09, 2025 The Chrome OS tablets are coming! We recently saw Acer reveal the first proper tablet running Google’s web-based operating system, the $329, education-focusedChromebook Tab 10. Now, HP is looking to up the ante with a flagship Chrome OS tablet for the general retail market and that could represent a true challenge to Apple’s iPad Pro....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Ironically, the original online smartphone brand is going offline June 11, 2025 Xiaomi will reportedly launch a third sub-brand to focus on offline markets in an effort to better compete against OPPO and vivo. Even just few years ago,Xiaomi seemed poised to become Samsung’s second biggest threat after Apple: after all, its online-only flash-sales saw a tremendous success, helping the Chinese electronics company selltens of thousands of devices within minutes, if not seconds....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Lenovo’s $50 Smart Clock Essential is now on sale August 14, 2025 Update: August 17, 2025 at 12 p.m. ET:If you’ve been waiting for Lenovo’s simple Smart Clock to go on sale, now’s the time to buy. The Lenovo Smart Clock Essential is now on sale from major retailers like Best Buy and Walmart, as well as Lenovo.com. Hit the links below to pick one up for yourself....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG G6 to feature curved glass back and wireless charging - report August 17, 2025 According to a report coming out of South Korea,LG’s upcoming flagshipmay have a curved all-glass back with wireless charging in tow. We’ve seen leaked renders of an alleged early prototype of the LG G6– not much was revealed except the G6 is most likely to follow the design language of its predecessor but forgo of its modularity....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Many rumors, very few confirmations. What devices will get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean? July 16, 2025 Almost a month has passed after the formal introduction of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The new operating system’s source code has itself been released a couple of weeks back, so it’s only natural for users to expect official Jelly Bean updates to be flowing, right?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. MicroSD offline playback lets you take Amazon Prime music with you July 02, 2025 Previously, if you wanted to take yourAmazon Primetunes on the go, you were limited by the internal storage of your device. Offline playback was available, sure, but not for microSD cards. Songs can add up fast in terms of storage space. For a long time, users have been crying out forPrime Musicto allow offline playback of songs downloaded to memory cards so that they wouldn’t have to be constantly picking and choosing which songs they were going to bring along with them....