Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Flashbacks and Forecasts: Sony in 2016 July 02, 2025 As the inventor of the Sony Walkman and maker of the world’s current most popular game console, Sony devices have enjoyed huge popularity over the years. But electronic devices haven’t been the core of Sony’s business for a long time and it is now crunch time for Sony Mobile, the most problematic of all Sony’s holdings....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 10 series tipped to start at 999 euros in Europe July 31, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy Note 10and Note 10 Plus are two of the most anticipated devices in the second half of 2019, and they’re shaping up to be super smartphones. Their pricing remains a major question still, but it looks like we now have a good idea of what to expect in Europe....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google begins posting OTA images for Nexus devices alongside factory images July 16, 2025 Whenever a new system update is released, Google makes the factory images for Nexus devices available on its developer website. While these updates can be downloaded right away, the problem is you need to have an unlocked bootloader to flash them. And if you can’t seem to track down the OTA (....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google confirms some Project Fi users are testing VoLTE features June 14, 2025 We haven’t heard much aboutProject Filately in terms of Google adding new features to its MVNO carrier. Today, however, the company has confirmed what has been rumored for a little while. It stated that a small number of Project Fi customers are currently testing its new Voice over LTE (VoLTE) features....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google will kill Chrome for Android’s data-saving Lite Mode soon June 17, 2025 Google Chromefor Android has offered a Data Saver Mode (later called Lite Mode) for years now, following in the footsteps of the trailblazing Opera Mini app. This feature compresses your requested web pages before they were transmitted to your device, resulting in less data being used....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Hackers raid Verizon enterprise customer data, 1.5 million affected July 11, 2025 If keeping our private dataout of our government’s handswasn’t trouble enough, we also have to be ever-vigilant against the online renegades who would seek to compromise our privacy for the sake of monetary gain. In a breaking security report byBrian Krebs, it appears that Verizon’s enterprise service have been hacked, and over 1....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Hands-on with the Samsung Gear Sport, Gear Fit 2 Pro, and Gear IconX 2018 June 30, 2025 If you listen to the waySamsungtells it, wearables are hot news right now. While thefitness band markethas taken off, non-Applesmartwatcheshaven’t been quite as fortunate. But at the top of the Android-based smartwatch pyramid isSamsung’s Gear S3range, with the Frontier being the most popular LTE-equipped wearable device in the US and global markets....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here are where all the OnePlus 6T pop-up shops will be (and when) June 25, 2025 We are now less than a week away from the launch of one of the most exciting Android devices of the year: theOnePlus 6T. The launch was originally scheduled for October 30, but there was a shuffling of the date due toa scheduling conflict with Apple, so now the OnePlus 6T will officially launch on June 19, 2025....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR wants to be a top 3 brand by 2022, will start with world’s first 5G phone July 27, 2025 At a large event over the weekend in Beijing, George Zhao — the president of theHonorsmartphone brand, a sub-brand ofHuawei— made some bold claims in regards to the company. Zhao says that an HONOR 5G phone will be the world’s first and that the launch of the device will help propel HONOR to be one of the world’s biggest smartphone brands....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to get Location address in an Android app July 30, 2025 In previous tutorials, we have discussedhow to get location data, as well as using location data to implement a simple device location tracking systemusing the ThingSpeak API. For this tutorial, we are going to use theGeocoderclass to translate a given address into its latitude and longitude values (geocoding), and also translate a latitude and longitude value into an address (reverse geocoding)....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC Desire 626 review July 02, 2025 HTC Desire 626 What we like What we don’t like Our scores With a few exceptions, HTC’s diverse smartphone portfolio is largely divided into the flagship One series and the Desire line, that includes everything from entry-level to “premium mid-range” devices. Over the past two years, HTChas made some great additions to the Desire series, and is hoping to continue that with their latest entry-level smartphone....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Huge HTCU “Ocean” specs and features leak reveals major device details August 24, 2025 Rumors of an upcoming HTCflagship, referred to as the HTCU or HTCOcean,popped up onlinelast week. We only managed to learn a little about the device then, but now we’ve received a slew of new details. The information comes from “leaked preview materials” obtained byAndroid Headlinesand it’s so comprehensive that — if accurate — it would indicate that HTCis gearing up to release the phone soon....
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Imagination shows off real time ray tracing demos at MWC June 06, 2025 Last year,Imagination Technologiesunveiled details about its GR6500 GPU, a graphics chip that features a dedicated Ray Tracing Unit (RTU) to help run the demanding graphical technology in real time. Imagination has been showing off the capabilities of its PowerVR Wizard ray tracing architecture atMWC 2016, with a selection of applications running in real-time on a quad-cluster PowerVR GR6500 GPU....
