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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 has been slightly delayed due to design concerns July 26, 2025 Samsung has reportedly delayed the release of theSamsung Galaxy Note 9after vice chairman Lee Jae-yong ordered changes to the phone’s design. The orders came earlier in May, only months before the device’s expected release. The Bellsays that the reason for the delay is that Samsung wants to reduce the thickness of the glass that protects the OLED display by 0....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Gear Sport review: middle of the road June 06, 2025 Think smartwatch and, chances are, Samsung Gear comes to mind. Running the company’s custom Tizen OS rather than Android Wear, Samsung’s Gear range has had many additions over the past few years. From fitness devices to feature-rich smartwatches and everything in between, Samsung’s approach to wearables is that there’s something for everyone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung patents weird rotating pop-up camera system for selfie lovers June 29, 2025 Samsunghas invested in some pretty crazy camera designs in the past. TheGalaxy A80and its flipping camera come to mind. Now, the firm is seemingly exploring another design that could find itself on a future Galaxy model. Spotted byLetsGoDigital, a patent published in January 2021 by the World Intellectual Property Office envisions a Samsung phone with a rotating pop-up rear camera array....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony to stay in smartphone market, bets big on next paradigm shift July 16, 2025 Speaking to theFinancial Review,Kazuo Hirai – the president of Sony – outlined the company’s plans for the post-smartphone era, with a special focus on VR. Though Sony’sXperia XZ Premiummanaged to impress everyone with its 4K HDR display and a blazing-fast Snapdragon 835 chipset, the company’s smartphone business has never been a serious threat to companies like Samsung and Apple....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Survey report gives us hint of what people would pay for Facebook, Reddit, more August 09, 2025 The vast majority of social media apps are free for all to use, includingFacebook, Reddit,Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. In exchange for the free use of the platforms, you give the networks the right to harvest your data to assist advertisers in serving you the appropriate marketing materials....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. T-Mobile aims to become the No. 1 carrier in the US June 19, 2025 T-Mobile has some ambitious plans for the coming months: it aims to match Verizon’s wireless coverage to become the fastest and the most widely available carrier – or ratherUn-carrier– in the US. Earlier today,we reported that T-Mobile is now the fastest network in the US. America’s third-largest carrier has been aggressively expanding its service across the US, especially with its Un-carrier initiative....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. That’s meow-gic! Pets added in new Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery update June 04, 2025 Attention, animal-loving witches and wizards! Developer Jam City is adding pets toHarry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. The update, which goes live today, brings cat, owl, toad, and rat companions to the mobile role-playing game. Players can choose one pet to join them on their travels around Hogwarts, with the critters showing up in locations around the castle and its grounds....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The best Android smartphones you’ve never heard of August 13, 2025 Brands matter! Now if you’ll please pardon what could possibly be the worst introductory sentenceever, let me explain: brands might be evil (they have plenty of tactics for destroying the competition), they ruin all major TV events with those pesky multimillion dollar commercials, and some say that brands might even use mind-control nano-chips in their products to keep you loyal (although this is still to be proven), but all in all, brands definitely matter to most of us....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The best Google Pixel 6 Pro hybrid cases June 29, 2025 Our quick picks for the best hybrid/regular Google Pixel 6 Pro cases: ThePixel 6 Prois a big device, and with a glass back it’s quite susceptible to slipping out of your hand. While keeping the phone safe is important, you don’t want to add too much additional weight or thickness either....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Pixel and Pixel XL aren’t waterproof because Google ‘ran out of time’ July 28, 2025 Google’s latest smartphones, thePixel and Pixel XL, may lack waterproofing because Google didn’t have enough time to properly integrate it. In a podcast fromWIRED, David Pierce – who reviewed the Pixel for the tech site – shared some inside information regarding the water-resistant properties of the handset....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Three out of four Pixel users run Pie, which still doesn’t make a difference August 03, 2025 Last week we reported that over half of the iPhones and iPads released in the last four years were already running thelatest version of iOS. In response to this, Rick Osterloh, Senior Vice President of Hardware at Google, retweeted our article and gave an interesting statistic....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: These are the OnePlus 8T features you want most June 04, 2025 While the smartphone industry has certainly been turned on its head due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we still expect that most of the major flagships will launch this year. Theoretically, that includes the OnePlus 8T, the iterative upgrade tothis year’s OnePlus 8 series....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. When Samsung’s Exynos was the best flagship chipset for Android July 20, 2025 Samsungconfirmedlast month that it was shutting down its custom CPU division, responsible for its long-running Mongoose CPU cores. The news was welcomed bysome enthusiasts, ostensibly hoping that this meant Samsung relied on Qualcomm’sSnapdragonsilicon for future flagships. Of course, this isn’t necessarily the case, as Samsung has produced high-endExynoschipsets without custom CPUs....