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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Carl Pei goes full Steve Jobs: “Learn to love the notch” (Updated) June 08, 2025 Update 3/29/18 1:10 P.M. EST:Carl Pei’s interview withThe Vergein which he explains the company’s reasoning behind including a notched display with the OnePlus 6was well-intentioned, but it has become a PR nightmare for OnePlus. On damage control, Carl Pei deleted his Tweet promoting the interview, and now OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has posteda messageto OnePlus fans on the company’s official forum....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Deutsche Telekom plans to merge T-Mobile, MetroPCS August 15, 2025 In the mobile industry, you need to be at the top of your game. Otherwise, with cutthroat competition, you might find yourself being overshadowed by the bigger companies. For some, though, it’s better to go for mergers and acquisitions rather than fight each other. Reports have it that Deutsche Telekom is planning to acquire super-regional carrier MetroPCS....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. E3 will be open to the public this year, sort of July 04, 2025 Throughout my childhood, E3 was sort of like a special holiday. It was that time of the year that we’d learn about all the new hotness, from new games to new accessories, and even brand new game consoles. Of course, back then, most of the announcements from E3 reached me via July “E3 editions” of the Electronic Gamer Monthly magazine....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. EE 4G coverage now exceeds all the UK’s 3G networks June 25, 2025 The UK might not have thefastest LTE speedsor the best typical coverage compared with other countries, but carrierEEis pulling further ahead of the pack after switching on its 800MHz spectrum across 700 cell sites around the country this week. This roll out means that EE’s 4G network now covers more land area than any 3G network available in the country....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Essential Phone gets another major camera update, adds Auto-HDR mode June 17, 2025 Things haven’t always gone smoothly for Essential since it entered the smartphone market, but there’s no doubting the quality of its debut product, theEssential Phone (PH-1). Be it hardware or software, the Essential Phone has delivered inalmostevery department. I say almost because Andy Rubin’s start-up fluffed one key feature: the camera....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook helped make Chrome pages refresh up to 28% faster June 26, 2025 Facebookhas revealed how it contributed to Google’s Chrome browser to improve its efficiency. According to theFacebook code blog, its changes have helped makeChromepage refreshes up to 28% faster, with 60% less validation requests, and more battery efficient. When you refresh a page, instead of downloading all of a website’s resources again, the web server instead checks what your device already has....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook Messenger now lets brands send you ads that look like messages July 14, 2025 Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to deny any company the ability to make money, but isn’t there a line somewhere that shouldn’t be crossed? Maybe not.Facebook, in its never-ending pursuit of pleasing advertisers rather than users, has just updated Messenger to allow brands to send you ads disguised as messages....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fairphone 3 hands-on: Modular, repairable, five years of support. What gives? June 24, 2025 The new Fairphone 3launched this weekin Berlin and we went hands-on to find out how far the third edition of the most repairable and sustainable smartphone in the industry has come. More importantly, should you buy it? The Fairphone 3 is a modern throwback. It’s mid-2019, and I found myself holding an all-plastic, modular, repairable device in my hands....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge sales expected to top 25 million soon August 01, 2025 It’s no secret that theGalaxy S7andS7 Edgeare fantastic smartphones. While sometimes a great phone doesn’t translate into huge sales figures, this is not one of those occasions. After selling aroundten million devicesin the first three weeks of availability, the S7 and S7 Edge are projected to cross the 25 million unit barrier by the end of this month....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gameloft’s Order & Chaos 2: Redemption fights its way to the Play Store July 07, 2025 Coming to usa day earlier than expected,Gameloft’smuch-anticipated MMORPG Order & Chaos 2: Redemption is now available for download from Google Play. In Order & Chaos 2, you’ll be able to join thousands of other players from around the world to complete online multiplayer quests....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google claims to have proven that its D-Wave machine has quantum compute capabilities August 25, 2025 Googlehas justpublished a paperwhich it claims proves that its controversial D-Wave quantum computer really can tap into quantum physics to solve problems. There have previously been some questions raised about the actual capabilities of the D-Wave sold to Google, but the company now appears to be much more confident about what it can do....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Files Go: Who is it made for? August 23, 2025 Google is known for making well-made apps. Itsapp portfoliostretches pages upon pages of recognizable apps likeYouTube,Google Maps, andGoogle Photos. But, it recently put up a listing for a brand new app that caught everyone’s attention. It’s a file manager namedFiles Goand it’s currently in beta. There are a million file managers in the Play Store, so what makes Files Go so different?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google has started sending out Home Mini promo codes for Pixel 2 pre-orders June 12, 2025 If you pre-ordered aPixel 2 or Pixel 2 XLat launch from Google you may have qualified for a free Google Home Mini speaker. At the time, the search giant said that the miniaturizedGoogle Assistant-powered smart speaker would ship within four weeks after buyers received their new phones....