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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Italy’s antitrust body is investigating Apple and Samsung over planned obsolescence June 15, 2025 Italy’s antitrust body announced Thursday it is looking into complaints regardingApple‘s andSamsung‘s alleged use of software updates to push people to buy new smartphones. According toReuters, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) says both companies executed “a general commercial policy taking advantage of the lack of certain components to curb the performance times of their products and induce customers to buy new versions....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Jury says Apple violated three Qualcomm patents, should pay $31 million July 29, 2025 Yesterday, at a trial in San Diego between chipset-makerQualcommand technology giantApple, a jury declared a win for Qualcomm when it decided that Apple had violated three Qualcomm patents (viaCNET). The jury agreed that Apple should pay $31 million in damages. This suit — filed in July of 2017 — is just one of the manyworldwide legal battlesQualcomm is pursuing against Apple....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Latest Google keyboard update brings back the blue June 05, 2025 It’s a small change, but for fans of the neon blue that characterized Android from Ice Cream Sandwich through Jelly Bean, it’s a welcome one. Google added in the latest update to itsKeyboard appthe ability to choose between White and Blue for the color scheme. Contrary to what you may think from the name, this actually just changes the color of the accent color – the color of keys in pressed mode, the suggested words, and the swipe track....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG G8S ThinQ launched: One more rear camera, but how many cutbacks? August 10, 2025 TheLG G8S ThinQwas announced alongside thestandard G8at MWC 2019 earlier this year. We’ve already seen the vanilla G8 land in several countries, but LG has finally launched the G8S model this week. LG G8S ThinQ: What’s the difference? This LG variant stands out from the standard model by offering a triple rear camera trio instead of a dual rear camera setup....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Netflix lets people stuck at home watch educational shows and movies for free July 30, 2025 Netflixis getting a surge of new users, thanks in part to more people staying at home because ofthe coronavirus outbreak. However, there are still plenty of people who can’t pay the money for the streaming service after its 30-day free trial is over. So Netflix just posted a bunch of its original educational shows and movies for free on itsYouTube channel(before you ask; no, it didn’t put up Tiger King)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Official: Samsung Flow will let you unlock any Windows 10 device soon June 17, 2025 Samsung has nowconfirmed previous reportsthat it plans to release a big update to its Samsung Flow Android app. When the update goes live in April, the app will allow users to remotely open any Windows 10-based PC. Currently, the app lets users unlock just one Windows 10 PC, Samsung’s own Galaxy Tab Pro S tablet, using the fingerprint sensor in the company’s phones like theGalaxy S7,S7 Edge,Note 5,Galaxy S6and others....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 5T Sandstone variant teased by OnePlus? August 20, 2025 OnePlus has been making itsOnePlus 5Ta more attractive prospect since launch with some additional variants. We’ve already seen aStar Wars-themed model, whilea Lava Red versionrecently went on sale in China. We might soon be able to add one more to the list, too, as it looks like we a Sandstone model could be on its way....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition looks to be a beast of a smartphone August 22, 2025 Yesterday, OnePlusannounced a partnershipwith British auto company McLaren to possibly launch a special editionOnePlus 6Tnext month. According toMySmartPrice‘srecent leak, the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition could very well live up to the auto maker’s name. According to the report, the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition will feature a whopping 10GB of RAM and 256GB of storage....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus, smart glass, and more tech you need to know today August 24, 2025 1. OnePlus Concept One adds smart glass OnePlus has given us an inside look at itsOnePlus Concept Onesmartphone it intends to show off atCES 2020. At least from the glimpse we’ve gotten so far, it doesn’t look like it’s a foldable, dual-display, or like it’s a phone without ports that were all part of someConcept One best guessesput forward....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. POCO X3 NFC launch set for next week: First phone with Snapdragon 732G incoming June 13, 2025 ThePOCO X3 NFCis coming next week as thefirst phoneequipped with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 732G chipset. We’ve seen a bunch of teasers for the phone in the past week or so and the company has now revealed that it’ll launch globally on September 7....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. PSA: Galaxy S7 defaults to Full HD after Nougat update, here’s how to change it back July 03, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy S7and S7 Edge’s display resolution changes from QHD (1440 x 2560) to Full HD (1080 x 1920) following the installation of Android Nougat. The alteration comes as part of Samsung’s aim to give users more control over their device’s standby times — and as such can easily be switched back....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Qualcomm demos 24 core ARM based server processor July 15, 2025 To coincide with the live demonstration of what Qualcomm is calling its Server Development Platform (SDP), the SoC maker has started sampling the new processor to its tier-one data center clients. The new pre-production server chip includes 24 cores based on the 64-bit ARMv8-A instruction set. And this is exactly the target that Qualcomm is aiming for....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Redmi 9 Power review: Budget battery beast August 09, 2025 Xiaomi Redmi 9 Power What we like What we don’t like Our scores It’s been a busy year or so forXiaomi. The Redmi 9 Power is yet another competitor in India’sentry-level smartphone segmentfrom the company’s sub-brand. The budget phone takes a keen focus on battery longevity — a feature that might not be the top-most priority for many users with the ongoing lockdowns....