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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 7T receives Oxygen OS 10.0.3 update with camera improvements August 10, 2025 TheOnePlus 7Tlaunched last week running on Oxygen OS based onAndroid 10. Now, OnePlus has rolled out the Oxygen OS 10.0.3 software update for the phone. Making the announcement on the company’sforums, a OnePlus staffer said that the update brings multiple camera improvements. Here’s what you get....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Opinion: Smartphones have gotten so good, it’s hard to really get excited anymore June 08, 2025 It’s almost remarkable to think about the devices we use today: just a few short years ago, “commonplace” components like a QHD display would be unheard of. “Mundane” features like High Fidelity audio would be unthinkable. Heck, even something as “basic” as biometric security was impossible to find....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OPPO announces 5X Precision Optical Zoom July 26, 2025 As expected,OPPOhas just unveiled a very interesting dual camera technology atMobile World Congress 2017that should end up making its way into future smartphones from the company. Known as 5X Precision Optical Zoom, the name gives away what OPPO is looking to achieve after its year long research and development effort....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OPPO Find X3 Pro buyer’s guide: Everything you need to know August 23, 2025 The OPPO Find X3 Pro is the Chinese OEM’s flagship phone for 2021, and its firstSnapdragon 888phone. This marked a major step in its quest to conquer the premium market, and it had big ambitions for this device. Oppo’s phone delivers a ton of premium features, although it’s not an improvement in every single area....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Pixel 3 owners are reporting swollen batteries, damaged rear covers August 15, 2025 Swollen batteries are a serious matter in the gadget space, but we usually only see this phenomenon happen on old devices. Unfortunately, it looks like thePixel 3 and Pixel 3 XLare suffering from this problem too. Android Policespotted aPixel Phone Community threadfilled with Pixel 3 series owners complaining about a battery swelling issue....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Power draining apps: what’s happening and what can you do about it June 20, 2025 Facebook and Messenger’srecent battery draining issuemight have caught a lot of users off-guard, but the company isn’t the only one to have released app versions that chug down too much juice. In fact, it appears that the problem was quite a simple mistake for a developer to make and one that could affect any number of apps....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Alexa to outsell Google Home three-to-one this year August 13, 2025 It looks like Amazon will be the top dog when it comes to voice-controlled speakers this year. According to the research firmeMarketer,Alexa-powered Echoand Echo Dot devices are expected to claim a 70.6 percent share of the US market in 2017. This puts Amazon way ahead of its biggest rival when it comes to voice-activated speakers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Samsung Galaxy S9 might be revealed in January July 13, 2025 TheGalaxy S8 serieswas revealed in March, with global sales kicking off a month later. According to a report fromThe Bell, things might be quite different when it comes to the Galaxy S9, as Samsung plan on speeding things up a bit. The report claims that Samsung will take the wraps off its next flagship devices a lot earlier than expected, in January to be more exact....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Researchers develop the first skin-like flexible display July 29, 2025 Flexible display technology has been gradually turning up in high-end gadgets, but research into even more flexible solutions is showing no signs of slowing down. A research team from the University of Central Florida, led by Professor Debashis Chanda, has developed the first-ever skin-like colour display, which is thin and flexible enough to be used alongside fabrics....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy S8 image leak shows off on-screen keys, desktop dock August 18, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy S8rumors and image leaks continue to flood the internet ahead of its official reveal, which man not even happen for over a month. Today we have yet another leak, which claims a system dump from the still unannouncedGalaxy Tab S3tablet has uncovered some clip art showing some of the features in the Galaxy S8....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Smartphone VR: Another 3D fad or the real deal? July 27, 2025 This is the second in the three-part series looking at 3D imaging. In the first, we looked at why every time “3D” has failed to become totally mainstream. Today, 3D is back and trying to make a splash in mobile devices – this time in the form of “virtual reality....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Some Nexus 6 owners are getting an OTA ‘update’ from Android 7.1.1 to 7.0 (Updated) June 07, 2025 Update, March 16:A Google Nexus community managerrepliedto the Reddit users (viaAndroid Police) complaining about the “update” that brought their Nexus 6 phones back to Android 7.0. Unfortunately, the answer leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Here it is, in full:...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony Xperia Z5 officially announced: what you need to know July 01, 2025 Sony has never really been a crowd favorite in the U.S., at least when it comes to smartphones. Recently however, Sony has struggled internationally as well, with the latest iteration of their flagship particularly coming under fire for being too similar to the Sony Xperia Z3, leading Sony to dub the phone the as the Xperia Z3+ in international markets, referring to it as theXperia Z4 only in Japan....