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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI Fit hands-on: a sleek fitness-focused smartwatch June 22, 2025 Does anyone even remember theHUAWEI HONOR Band Z1? It was announced earlier in the year duringCES 2016alongside the equally cheapHONOR 5Xsmartphone, but it has fallen out of memory for most people because, you know, it seemed like a subpar tracker when compared to other devices it was competing against. Well, HUAWEI isn’t one to give up, especially when it comes to spreading its name into other consumer electronics arenas besides smartphones....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Let’s look at some of the cool products coming from Samsung Creative Lab August 24, 2025 Samsung’s Creative Lab Projects, also known as C-Lab, is a Samsung division that aims to let its employees work on more personal projects. LikeGoogle Creative Lab, C-Lab offers a space to develop ideas that otherwise might never see the light of day and Samsung has just teased a few apps and wearables that might be coming out of C-Lab in the future....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG Optimus G review [video] July 24, 2025 Just because all you’ve been hearing and reading about is Samsung this, HTCthat, ASUS this, Google that, it doesn’t mean they’re the only players on the field. LG certainly hasn’t bowed out of the game and this time, it’s giving people something to look forward to. If you’re dying for a large screen with great colors but something that not everyone else has, the LG Optimus G might just fit your needs....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Liquid cooling and Tesla valves are coming to smartphones August 08, 2025 Dissipating the heat generated from the inner workings of our smartphones is becoming increasingly important, thanks to today’s processor-intensive games and applications. Even the most efficient smartphones out there can get warm or even hot to the touch in extreme circumstances.Xiaomithinks it has the answer, and it’s using liquid cooling and Tesla valves to make it happen....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Meizu’s Pro 5 delayed due to factory flood August 04, 2025 Meizu’s flagship smartphone was supposed to hit the market next week, but today the Chinese companyannouncedthat thePro 5won’t be released until November. Word on the street is that this delay is due a storm in Guangdong that flooded the company’s factory. Meizu made waves when they announced that they were posed to release the Pro 5, which isone of the first non-Samsung, Exynos 7420-powered smartphones, but now eager shoppers will have to wait another month to get their hands on the device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Midnight Black OnePlus 3T is officially sold out July 10, 2025 Latest word: stock is essentially gone for good – 5/4/17 The midnight black version of the OnePlus 3T was never meant to be a permanent edition, and so it’s not surprisingly to learnfrom OnePlus that they are officially out of stock– at least in the US. It should be noted at least a few of our staff noted that the black version is still offered in the UK, and so there may be some remaining supply....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Mini app drawer on your navigation bar, root required - Android customization June 18, 2025 Picking up from where we left off with GravityBox on ourAndroid customizationseries last week, let’s take it low. That is, we would like to use this Xposed module to make some tweaks to our navigation bar. From swapping button locations and colors to adding a new app drawer,GravityBoxhas a few cool tricks up its sleeve, let’s check it out....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Motorola’s 5G Razr may pack a sleeker design without a fingerprint reader August 22, 2025 Motorola’s rumoredRazr sequelmay have emerged in earnest, and it appears that the2019 foldableis getting a design overhaul. Well-known leak purveyor Evan Blass has shared an imageon his Patreonthat reportedly shows the new clamshell phone, codenamed “Odyssey.” It still has the familiar basic design (including the external display), but the chin appears to be conspicuously smaller and doesn’t include a visible fingerprint reader....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Move over lootboxes, there’s a new monetization king in town June 25, 2025 If there’s one thing gamers love to do, it’s complain about lootboxes. Whether they’re for powerful pay-to-win items, gacha style character summons, or just cosmetic goodies, people can’t stand the monetization mechanic that honestly just feels like gambling. The good news is that those times may be coming to an end....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. New Google Photos features - Suggested Sharing, Shared Libraries and Photo Books August 21, 2025 We take so many photos, we just forget to share.Google Photoshas a few new features announced atGoogle I/O 2017that aim to address just that. Google Photos knows that you take over 1.2 billion photos and videos per day, but share only a few. They understand my issue, at least: I don’t have time to choose the right pictures to share....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Plex for Android can finally play local files June 16, 2025 Am I the only one surprised to hear Plex for Android actually couldn’t play local files in the past? Plex, the service meant to liberate your media, apparently was limited by the boundaries of your network. This changes with the latest update, though. Plex has been updated to version 6....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Pokemon Go is an AR game that lets you “catch ‘em all” in real life July 25, 2025 Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m a recovering addict. During the late-90s and into the earlier 2000s I had a problem, I just had tocatch ’em all. Eventually I learned to kick the habit, though I’ve had a few relapses over the years....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Psst! HP is gearing up for a big Black Friday sale: get the details here June 28, 2025 We’re approaching theBlack Friday 2018sales extravaganza where we expect to see tons of tech hit rock-bottom prices. Some companies have already started rolling out their deals ahead of the event on November 23, while others are still preparing for the blowout....