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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The battle for the connected home June 26, 2025 Imagine a system where your home tracks you through your smartphone. The heating in your house fires up when you’re 20 minutes away, the garage door opens as you pull into the driveway, the front door unlocks itself, and, as you enter, the lights in the living room blink to life and some music starts to play through your wireless speakers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The JBL Flip 6 leads the charge in a slew of new speaker and headset releases July 02, 2025 While we’ve known for some time that IFA 2021 is a no-go, this didn’t stop JBL from refreshing its line ofspeakers,headphones, andearbudswhen the convention would have taken place. Out of this deluge of noise-cancelling earbuds, party speakers, and headphones, something is bound to catch your eye....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The next Call of Duty mobile game will come from the maker of Candy Crush Saga June 27, 2025 The huge Call of Duty game franchise is about to make another stab into the mobile space. King, the developer best known for their Candy Crush series of popular puzzle games, is forming an new team in Stockholm, Sweden dedicated to making a new mobile game based on the military shooter series....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Pokemon Go Starbucks collaboration is official June 17, 2025 When you’re out hunting Pokemon this holiday season, you may now officially rest your weary feet at one of your numerous local Starbucks for a Pokemon Go Frappuccino and a little monster battling action. Starbucks has madeofficialwhat has been frequently rumored lately: 7,800 Starbucks locations will be evolved into either PokéStops or Gyms....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The weak Pixel 5 camera is giving up the crown, and more tech news today June 04, 2025 1. Pixel 5 camera… problems? The Pixel 5 camera may have reached its endgame. For the Pixel 5 camera is good, but it’s no longer the line in the sand it used to be. What the reviews are saying: One more bit of insight: 2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This week in Android: Black Friday, Thunder Purple OnePlus 6T, and more August 21, 2025 Black Fridayis upon us! It’s time to whip out those credit cards andget some killer dealson some awesome tech. Fortunately, we have rounded up all the best deals for you in ourBlack Friday Hub. Dive on in and get ready for some savings! Meanwhile in the tech world, we had some new developments....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Ubisoft purchases Ketchapp August 18, 2025 Ubisofthas made quite a name for itself in the triple-A gaming arena. The company is responsible for a slew of popular video game franchises including Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Assassin’s Creed, Rayman, and Far Cry, Now it appears that they’re looking at getting much more involved in mobile gaming, but they way they’re going about it raises an eyebrow or two....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Viper SmartStart 4.0 allows you to start or lock your car using Android Wear August 03, 2025 The future is closing in on us fast, folks. FollowingHyundai’s big Android Wear newsa few days ago, Viper has just announced their new Android Wear-integrated app. SmartStart, the company’s smartphone app that allows users to start and lock their cars, has been around for quite some time....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What’s going on with Saygus? - the drama continues into 2016 June 10, 2025 Rewinding back all the way to CES in January of 2015, I remember first stumbling upon theSaygus V2and instantly I was excited by the phone. Top-shelf specs, a unique design, tons of expandable storage, and a company that seemed refreshingly different. At the same time, I was also instantly wary....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Which is the better power user phone: HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro or Galaxy Note 9? (Poll of the Week) August 11, 2025 Last week’s poll summary:Last week,we asked youif you were planning on buying theGoogle Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, or neither.The overwhelming majorityof our readers said they weren’t going to buy either, 16 percent said they prefer the smaller Pixel 3, and just 12 percent voted for the Pixel 3 XL....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. With Android Wear critical, open source AsteroidOS offers smartwatches a life line July 31, 2025 Android Wearhas been on life support for a while. We’re still waiting for the miracle cure ofAndroid Wear 2.0, but the clock is ticking, the doctors seem pre-occupied and various relatives havealready given up hopeas smartwatches limp ever closer to theprecipice. But smartwatches may just have a new hope: a new open-source wearable platform called AsteroidOS....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 5G breaks cover courtesy of Google, specs in tow July 22, 2025 Xiaomi didn’t reveal theMi 11 Liteat its Chinese or global Mi 11 events, but we’re guessing that the company will reveal this phone alongside theMi 11 Ultrain the coming weeks and months. Now,MySmartPricehas discovered that the Mi 11 Lite 5G has actually been listed on the Google Play Console platform, complete with the code-name of Renoir....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Mi 9 SE vs Nokia 8.1 specs: It’s much closer than you think July 20, 2025 TheXiaomi Mi 9 SEis the company’s sophomore SE device, offering plenty of upper mid-range features. Sure, the phone looks poised to duke it out against devices fromHuaweiandRealme, but HMD Global also has a very interesting challenger in the Nokia 8.1. Despite HMD’s claims otherwise, you only need to look at its spec sheet to realize that the Nokia 8....