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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Motorola One 5G Ace lands without Android One, but with 5,000mAh battery July 27, 2025 Last year, Motorola gave us the Motorola One 5G. The originalMotorola Onecame with theAndroid One platform, which gave hope to buyers that they would get Android upgrades on a set schedule. TheMotorola One 5G, however, came without Android One. The 2021 Motorola One 5G Ace — launched today duringCES 2021— continues on with that trend....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. New Android Firefox browser might make a good Chrome alternative… eventually July 06, 2025 Mozilla introduced an experimental new Android browser last week calledFirefox Preview. This in-development browser is the foundation on which the mainlineFirefox for Android browserwill be reinvented. Mozilla plans to relaunch the Android Firefox browser later in 2019. Firefox Preview, as the name suggests, is a work-in-progress, but it already presents some appealing prospects....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. New Nokia phone hits Bluetooth SIG, could be Nokia 7.1 Plus August 16, 2025 HMD Global has launchedNokiasmartphones at a speedy pace in 2018, and it looks like the company isn’t stopping just yet. A new HMD smartphone has popped up on theBluetooth SIG website, suggesting we could see another release before the end of the year. The listing reveals a phone with the model number TA-1136, along withBluetooth 5....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nextbit claims they will radically improve battery life… somehow June 17, 2025 We’ve gotta hand it to Nextbit. The company created a pretty innovate product with theRobin, a smartphone that eschews larger physical storage options in favor of a cloud-first design philosophy, and it’s looking like other leaders in the industry, including Apple and Google, are looking for ways to do similar things with the cloud in Nextbit’s wake....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nintendo wants to limit the number of in-game purchases in its mobile games August 22, 2025 With a growing roster offree-to-playgames, you’d expectNintendoto strongly push for in-game purchases. Interestingly, it appears that Nintendo is doing the opposite with its mobile games. According toThe Wall Street Journal, Nintendo asked its mobile development partners to limit the number of in-app purchases in their games....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. One third of Valve’s employees are now working on VR June 23, 2025 This post was originally published on our sister site,VRSource.com. Many companies are pushing resources towards the new hot tech on the block, VR, but no one seems to be doing it quite like Valve. Co-creators of the high-end HTCVive virtual reality headset, Valve has helped drive the industry fromvirtuallynon-existent to “the next big thing” in a matter of months....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Poco’s new smartphone is launching in February, POCO F2 also confirmed June 18, 2025 Update, July 25, 2025 (05:35AM ET):Poco’s new smartphone will launch in February. The company tweeted out the information and also confirmed the same to wire agencyPTIin India. “We will launch our new phone next month. We will start online and then progress to additional channels,” POCO India’s GM, C Manmohan told PTI in an interview....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Poll: Do you turn off Bluetooth and NFC when not using them? July 25, 2025 Bluetoothhas become an integral technology on smart devices and mobile phones. As the wireless glue that connects smart devices, it’s something most of us probably leave switched on all day connected toheadphonesor smartwatches. NFC, too, now features on more and more devices. Initially absent from most low-end devices, it enables mobile payments and device pairing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 and 430 processors - performance meets affordability August 12, 2025 Qualcomm has weird schedules, and it seems this Monday night was the chosen period of time to announce a bunch of their new goodies. The processor maker just told us about their newQuick Charge 3.0 technology, and now we are all over a couple new processors that were just announced....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. realme accidentally reveals affordable global price tag for realme GT flagship June 24, 2025 Update: July 22, 2025 (1:40AM ET):realme has accidentally posted a realme GT listing on its European website (h/t:The Verge), revealing a €549 (~$669) price for the upcoming Snapdragon 888 flagship phone. The listing has since been pulled from the company website, but confirmed a 12GB/256GB variant....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Redmi 9 series could bring major upgrades to low-end phones July 18, 2025 Xiaomi’s low-end Redmi phones are usually among the best devices in the sub-$150 tier, with recent Redmi phones offering big batteries and several other neat features. Now, frequent leaker Sudhanshu has revealed apparent Redmi 9 series details onTwitter, and they say we’ll see four phones in the family....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Google Assistant is better than Siri in every tested category – except one June 19, 2025 Back in April, weshared some test resultswith you from a marketing company that set out to answer a simple question: which is the most efficientvirtual assistant? The results painted a clear picture thatGoogle Assistantis the best. Now, we have new results from a different company –Loup Ventures– that comes to the same conclusion: Google Assistant trounces Siri,Cortana, andAlexato emerge the clear victor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Rumor: Galaxy Note 20 series could launch at a lower price than the Note 10 July 10, 2025 A new report from South Korean media suggests that Samsung could launch theGalaxy Note 20series at a lower price than theGalaxy Note 10. The price drop is believed to be in response to the lower expected demand amid the coronavirus pandemic....