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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. SanDisk will soon offer the world’s fastest 256GB microSDXC card, priced at $200 July 26, 2025 Despite briefly falling out of fashionwith Samsung flagships in 2015,microSD remains a great choice for those looking to expand the available storage on their mobile devices without having to swap their existing phone or tablet for a new one. In recent years we’ve not only seen the pricing for microSD cards drop steadily, but the the available sizes have increased significantly, with capacities as large as 256GB now readily available....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Secret Service paid for location data from phone apps June 21, 2025 The US government is facing more accusations ofbuying location datato track people down without the usual warrants and court orders.Motherboardhas learned through a Freedom of Information Act request that the Secret Service paid Babel Street to use Locate X, a secretive product that supplies location data from commonphone apps....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Snapdragon 845 listed in Qualcomm’s ITC complaint against Apple August 21, 2025 As already reported back in May, Qualcomm is in alegal dispute with Appleand wants to block imports of the iPhone to the US market. The company has filed a complaint against Apple with the International Trade Commission (ITC), which lists a number of patented chipsets. Among these is also the unannounced Snapdragon 845 chipset, which is expected to make its debut sometime next year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony’s Android TVs will be the first televisions with Google Assistant June 15, 2025 Earlier this year at CES 2017, Google announced that itsGoogle Assistantvoice command feature wouldfind its way into smart TVs. Today,Sonyconfirmed that its upcoming 2017 lineup of Bravia 4K televisions, which already haveAndroid TVinstalled, will be the first to incorporate Google Assistant. That’s the good news. The bad news is that if you buy one of the new 2017 Sony Bravia televisions right away, you won’t get access to Google Assistant out of the box....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony’s weird ‘Linkbuds’ certainly don’t look like AirPods (or anything else) June 07, 2025 Although there are plenty of great sets oftrue wireless earbudsout there, none can compare to the mighty AirPods when it comes to popularity. Because of how iconic AirPods are, there are tons of imitators out there that liberally borrow from the design ethos. See also:Best Bluetooth headphones...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. TAG Heuer smartwatch production to be increased due to high demand June 28, 2025 Swiss watchmakerTAG Heuerannounced that it will be increasing the production of itsTAG Heuer Connected smartwatch, to meet the anticipated (heavy) demand. Despite carrying a luxurious $1,500 price tag, making it the most expensive Android Wear basedsmartwatch, retailers and subsidiaries have collectively received requests for over 100,000 watches....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Talon for Twitter 6.0 released with new layout, additional filtering options and more July 11, 2025 Talon, the popular third-party AndroidTwitterapp developed by Luke Klinker, has rolled out a big update, bringing the version number up to 6.0. Fans of Talon will notice that the user interface has been revamped in several areas, along with many other additions. Klinker says in his blog post that Talon 6....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Update: LineageOS builds now available for Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, and more August 15, 2025 Update, January 23:As promised, the first nightly and experimental builds for LineageOS 14.1 (Nougat-based) are here. For now only a handful of devices have builds available, but more will follow over the next days and weeks. For now, builds are available for: Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Moto G4, Moto G4 Plus, Nextbit Robin, and Xiaomi Redmi 1....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Verizon Google Pixel 3 is SIM-locked, even from Best Buy (Update: VZW unlocking all) June 28, 2025 Update, July 06, 2025 (12:20PM EST):It’s not clear whether it’s from customer backlash or if it was always planned this way, but Verizon is apparently remotely SIM-unlocking all Google Pixel 3 devices right now, viaAndroid Police. That means if you bought a Google Pixel 3 and previously tried to put a different carrier SIM card inside to no avail, it should work now or shortly in the future....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Why OnePlus decided against releasing its smartwatch July 14, 2025 Smartwatches have had a pretty rocky existence since arriving in full force back atGoogle I/O 2014. Despite the immaturity of Android Wear, it seemed like every smartphone company – with the exception of HTC, whichstill hasn’t released a smartwatch– instantly had a wearable on the most mobile of mobile platforms....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Would you buy a phone without a headphone jack? [Poll of the Week] June 25, 2025 It’s not an entirely new concept, but it’s one that many of us (including myself) still haven’t gotten used to: smartphones without a 3.5mm headphone jack. Manufacturers are constantly progressing in smartphone design. Bezels are getting smaller,screen-to-body ratios are increasing, and phones are also getting thinner....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Would you rather take consistently good photos or great shots inconsistently? July 06, 2025 When you pull out your smartphoneto take a photo, you expect a certain result. Sometimes that result is realized without much effort, sometimes you can get close with some minor tweaks to the software, and sometimes phone cameras fall completely short. It all depends on which company makes your smartphone, the quality of the camera hardware, and how your smartphone handles post-processing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Redmi 4 review June 16, 2025 Xiaomi Redmi 4 What we like What we don’t like Our scores Three years after it set foot in the Indian market, the Xiaomi juggernaut is unstoppable, and with each budget smartphone, the company sets new benchmarks in terms of value for money offering as well as sales figures. After the huge success of Redmi Note 4 and Redmi 4A, the company has recently launched the successor of Redmi 3S that was launched last year – Redmi 4....