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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: Your smartphone still has a headphone port July 27, 2025 The headphone port has become a rare sight on flagship phones, with the likes ofAsusandSonybeing among the few manufacturers launching high-end phones with the 3.5mm port. Otherwise, brands like Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus, and others have all ditched it on their flagships. We still see it on mid-rangers and low-end devices though, making for a welcome sight and a rare occasion where cheaper phones offer something that flagships lack....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Mi A1 with dual-camera setup and stock Android now available in India (Updated) July 23, 2025 Update, 03:45AM EST:It looks like the Mi A1 is fast flying off the virtual shelves. The phone is already out of stock on Mi.com and Flipkart. The next sale on Mi.com is scheduled for September 19 at 12PM IST. You may still be able to get it from one of the brick-and-mortar retailers listed below....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Mi TV Stick leaks with possible $80 price tag and Android TV July 01, 2025 It looks like another big name is hopping into theAndroid TVdongle space, as a listing has popped up for a Xiaomi Mi TV Stick. The Xiaomi Mi TV Stick first appeared on retailerGearBest. While the listing doesn’t feature a price for the streaming stick, the $80 price does show on up theretailer’s search page....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You told us: Consistently good photos trump occasionally great ones July 23, 2025 Modernsmartphonesmake it easy to snap good-quality images in practically all conditions. Automatic modes take the guesswork out of picking settings, so we can shoot images we can be proud of more often. That said, these modes that swing for consistency might not give us truly memorable, “perfect” photos....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You told us: You’re mostly split about Nothing’s Ear 1 price in India June 21, 2025 Nothing’s Ear 1 buds are heading to markets soon offering $99, £99, and €99 price tags in the US, UK, and Europe, respectively. Thetrue wireless earbudsare also launching in India but apparently at amuch lower comparative price. At Rs 5,999 (~$81), the Ear 1 buds will be ~$18 cheaper in India than in the US....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You’ll soon be able to buy a $6,000 Android camera June 12, 2025 We’ve seenAndroid phonescough up multiple camera systems for years now. What we haven’t seen in a while is a camera that runs Android. It’s not a new concept. Light’s16-lens L16 camerawas perhaps the last major Android-based camera to launch in 2017. We’ve also seen other companies experiment with the concept resulting in cameras like the Samsung Galaxy Camera, Galaxy NX, Yongnuo YN450, and Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 10 best psychological thriller games for Android June 22, 2025 There is a distinct difference between general horror and psychological thriller. Regular horror is an external threat that scares us. Meanwhile, psychological horror uses internal conflict to make us uncomfortable. There are fans of both genres, even if they are very similar. Unfortunately, there isn’t a ton of psychological horror in the Google Play Store....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 3 reasons to buy wired headphones in 2020 July 08, 2025 The headphone is still teetering on the edge of its extinction, which has led to the huge uptick in the popularity oftrue-wireless earbuds. Nevertheless, we consumers should still white-knuckle our wired headphones. Wireless technologyjust isn’t there yet. Until it gets there, we’ve laid out three reasons why you should buy wired headphones in 2020....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5 ways a new PlayStation portable could build on the PS Vita and PSP August 09, 2025 If Sony’s world-beatingPlayStationbrand isn’t competing with the Nintendo Switch in the handheld space, it’s not for lack of trying. Between 2004 and 2019 the company shipped three distinct handhelds: the PSP, PSP Go, and PlayStation Vita. There were also any number of smaller variants, yet none of them were able to dislodge Nintendo....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Q brings no-reboot security patches, introduces Focus Mode June 27, 2025 During theGoogle I/O 2019developer conference, Google announced a trio of new features that will debut inAndroid Qlater this year. First up is Project Mainline, which aims to get security patches to more smartphones more consistently and discreetly. The landscape ofAndroid updatesis depressing, with phones running on older Android versions and security patches....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Q forces you to swipe right (to clear notifications) June 25, 2025 TheAndroid Q developer preview 1is finally here, and it offers quite a few new features for users to try out. While most updates in the rollout are under the hood, there are several interface changes people are going to have to get used to. Just one of these many changes is an update to how you interact with notifications....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Another NVIDIA Shield TV device leaks, this time one with a ‘stick’ form factor June 06, 2025 Earlier today, we saw a leaked product page at Amazon that gave us our first supposed look at the newNVIDIA Shield TV Pro, the 2019 update to its popular media streamer. Now, we have a radically new variant of the NVIDIA Shield TV that comes in a stick-like form....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ARM makes mobile test chip based on TSMC’s 10nm FinFET July 29, 2025 The use of a simple chip design, in this case 4 cores rather than 8, no big.LITTLE, a small GPU etc., is normal for a test chip as the idea here is to test the physical manufacturing processes and not necessarily a full-blown feature rich SoC....