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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. (Update: three games gone) Sega will remove select games from the Play Store for not keeping up with the company’s standards June 10, 2025 Update (5/19):Since its original announcement, the video game company has pulled three titles from the Google Play Store –After Burner Climax, Jet Set RadioandSuper Monkey Ball 2. None of these titles have received updates for quite some time, and if you’ve ever played them, you’d know that all three could use some work....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 10 best couples apps for Android Jun 17, 2025 Most app lists are for individual use. Smartphones can be great for couples as well. It’s really just a selection of apps that can be useful for more than one person. In reality, it’s a difficult subject to broach. Couples need different things. They have different styles and do different things together....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 2021 SoC showdown: Snapdragon 888 vs Exynos 2100 vs Kirin 9000 vs Apple A14 August 13, 2025 Following the announcement of Samsung’s next-gen Exynos 2100 processor, the list of flagship processors set to power 2021’s flagship smartphones is now complete. The Exynos 2100 joins Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888, HUAWEI’s Kirin 9000, and Apple’s A14 Bionic as the brains behindearly 2021’s flagship smartphones....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5 shady battery tricks smartphone brands got caught doing June 29, 2025 Smartphone brands can be very tricky when it comes to how they communicate certain features and market their wares. Pumped-up numbers look good, after all. It must be said, though, that manufacturers often step up their shady tactics when it comes to the battery. Yes, there are several examples of mobile brands making questionable marketing claims regarding their phone batteries and charging practices....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. All the Google Pixel 3 features coming to the Pixel 2 June 26, 2025 When Google releases new smartphones, it also introduces new features. Unfortunately, for those who purchased the previous generation hardware, a lot of those new features will likely never make it to their devices. But that’s not the case for every new feature. As we will detail below, a lot of theGoogle Pixel 3’sunique software tricks will eventually make it to last year’sPixel 2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alto’s Adventure developer announces DISTANT – and we hope it’s Android-bound August 15, 2025 Snowman, the developer of the hit Android and iOS snowboarding gameAlto’s Adventure, has unveiled its latest project, DISTANT. The game, which is being created in partnership with Australian indie developerSlingshot & Satchel, was revealed in a blog post yesterday along with its first trailer. The video captures a similar ethereal tone to that of Alto’s Adventure and takes place inside a cavern....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Amazon says 60,000 devices support Alexa, which sounds dubious July 08, 2025 Likely in an attempt to capitalize on the beginning of Google I/O 2019,Amazon just announcedthat Amazon Alexa now works with 60,000 different devices from over 7,400 brands (viaAndroid Police). For the sake of comparison,Google’s most recent numberfor devices compatible with Google Assistant is 10,000. If this dichotomy sounds so impressive that it’s almost unbelievable, we’re right there with you....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android developer news for March: Android Q, new icon rules, and more August 18, 2025 The big news this month isthe release of Android Q Beta. As usual, the updated OS means more work for Android devs, but also more opportunities. There are a number of interesting new features and options for us to play around with, and you’ll find more information on all of them below....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Andy Rubin talks new Essential Phone accessories and smartphone addiction August 05, 2025 When Android co-creator Andy Rubin’s Essentialannouncedthe near-bezellessEssential Phone, the company also revealed that the phone would support add-on accessories that attach to the phone’s back via magnetic points. We know about the 360-degree camera that you can see above, but Rubin announced that two more magnetic accessories are under development....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Become Mickey or Minnie Mouse using the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus June 04, 2025 WhetherSamsungintended it or not, the newAR Emojifeature of theSamsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plusis one of the most talked-about features of the new devices. Samsungrevealed todaythat it has partnered with Disney to allow Galaxy S9 owners to use Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse as AR Emoji....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bell acquires MTS for $3.9 billion in Canadian wireless consolidation deal July 15, 2025 BCE plans to invest a billion dollars over the next five years to deliver its broadband network across the province, including bringing Gigabit Fibe Internet with speeds 20 times faster than what MTS customers currently receive within the first year, Fibe TV and accelerated expansion of its LTE network which will effectively double data speeds....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best of Android 2018: best performing phones August 07, 2025 We’ve yelled ourselves hoarse cautioning people to not look too deeply at benchmark performance, but forBest of Android 2018, we’re ignoring our own advice a little bit. The problem with benchmarks is many people don’t have a good ideawhat all of those numbers mean— sometimes they don’t actually mean anything at all....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Better smartphone graphics coming soon from Samsung and AMD August 23, 2025 In a surprising new move,SamsungandAMDhavepartneredtogether with the aim to bring better graphics performance to smartphones. Samsung will license AMD’s Radeon intellectual property to help it create the low-power-consuming, high-performance smartphones. This new partnership will focus mostly on Samsung’sExynoschipsets, which appear in its global flagship smartphones (Qualcomm chipsets are used for its North American flagships)....