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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bose QuietComfort 35 II users report worse noise cancelling after update August 17, 2025 Over the last month, several owners of the immensely-popularBose QuietComfort 35 IIheadphones have reported that recent updates to firmware (4.5.2) have decreased the effectiveness of the active noise canceling (ANC). While this doesn’t appear to affect all users, it’s something that certainly gives owners of the headphones pause when updating their software....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Certain OnePlus 6T variants out of stock as company prepares for OnePlus 7 June 14, 2025 OnePlusis a very efficient company when it comes to creating stock of its smartphones. When a new device comes along, the company is usually already sold out of the previous device preventing wasted money on unsold stock. With theOnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Prolaunches right around the corner, it’s time to start expecting theOnePlus 6Tto eventually be difficult to get (at least when it comes to brand new devices)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Crowdfunding project of the week: ORII allows for making calls using your finger July 31, 2025 Did you ever watch those movies where special agents communicate with each other by putting an index finger up to the ear? I wasn’t always able to see a device, so I wondered what exactly they were using. Maybe it was something like this week’s featured crowdfunding project....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cult classic Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy hits Android August 24, 2025 When it initially released in the bygone days of the original Xbox,Fahrenheit(which was called Indigo Prophecy in North America) was something of a game without a niche to call its home. The story-centric model that has the player “directing” the action rather than taking part in it more viscerally left the creators and fans alike struggling to identify its genre....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Download Google’s Earth Day wallpapers for Pixel phones June 11, 2025 Want to give your phone an eco-friendly flair? Google is happy to help. The tech giant hasreleaseda trio of Earth Day wallpaper images meant forPixel phones, although you won’t strictly need one of those devices depending on the quality you prefer. The three Earth Day wallpapers are available in full on thePixel 3and newer models through the “Curated Culture” collection you’ll find in your phone’s styles and wallpapers settings....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Elephone P6000 review August 12, 2025 64-bit processors are on the verge of becoming mainstream on Android devices, and the P6000 is one of the first smartphones from an Asian OEM that uses such a processor. The Elephone P6000 is a 5 inch device with a quad-core 64-bit Cortex-A53 based processor. If you haven’t heard of Elephone, that is because it isn’t that well known in the west (yet)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook Messenger desktop app, group viewing, more on the way August 11, 2025 Facebooktoday started up F8 2019, its annual developer’s conference. During the keynote address, the companyrevealed a few new featurescoming toFacebook Messenger, one of the most popular communication apps on the planet. The biggest new feature is the imminent launch of a desktop application forWindowsand macOS. This app will allow you to use most of Messenger’s features — including group messaging, video chats, sending GIFs, etc....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fitbit rolls out female health tracking to the Versa and Ionic, coming to Android this month June 10, 2025 Starting today,Fitbitis rolling out its female health tracking suite to theVersaandIonicsmartwatches, and to the Fitbit app on iOS and Windows. The feature will be available in the Android app “later this month.” Announced in March, female health tracking offers a way to track your menstrual cycle and understand how it connects to your health....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Forget about slider phones: Samsung files sliding display patent June 11, 2025 We’ve seen numerousslider phonesin the last 18 months, with devices fromXiaomiandHuaweiruling the roost. These phones mostly feature the same slider design that’s been a fixture since the feature-phone days. But a newSamsungpatent filed at the World Intellectual Property Office and spotted byLet’s Go Digitalsuggests a rather different take on the sliding design....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Get your pitchforks: here are renders of LG’s next flagship with a notch August 20, 2025 Whatever side of the coin you find yourself on when it comes to the trend of Android devices copyingthe iPhone X’s display notch, it’s painfully clear that the majority of smartphone brands areplanning lookalike devices. You can now likely addLGto the list, as theLG G7(or whatever LG is calling its next flagship) will probably have a notch,according to new concept images....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Cast is now officially Google Home August 14, 2025 With the introduction of the Google Home brand, the Google Cast app was said to be undergoing a name change, and that’s exactly what’s happening now. A few days ago,we reported that the Google Cast app would be rebranded as Google Home, with several users getting a notification informing them of the change....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google has two cases in store for the Nexus 6 June 23, 2025 Looks may only be skin deep, but with mobile tech they’resurface style. Each year, OEMs release a cornucopia of new products, some of which feature stellar designs, others which play it safe. Yet ironically, for all the banter surrounding something, one thing will always hold true: it can break....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Home gets multi-user support in the UK (Update: Canada too?) July 17, 2025 Update, June 29:Users in Canada – including our own Brian Reigh –reportedgetting the multi-user feature on their Google Home units. There’s no official announcement yet, but it doesn’t hurt to check if you have it. Original post, June 27:Google Homenow supports multiple users in the UK....