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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI will selectively incorporate some of Android 11’s features into EMUI June 26, 2025 If you’ve been following the development ofEMUI 11, you’ll know that HUAWEI built the latest version of its mobile operating system on top ofAndroid 10, not Android 11— which Googlereleasedto its Pixel devices on September 8. As a HUAWEI device owner, you might then ask yourself when HUAWEI will migrate EMUI to an Android 11 base....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Imagination releases Vulkan support for Google Nexus Player, Gnome Horde source June 13, 2025 Imagination Technologies, the British research and development company whose favorite topics are semiconductors and intellectual property licensing, has released two bits of noteworthy news this week. Not only have they released a software image for theGoogle Nexus Playerthat supports Vulkan 1.0, they’re also publishing the source of their telling Gnome Horde demo, which has been used to showcase the Vulkan API’s capabilities....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Is Google Stadia worth it? (Update: Video) July 25, 2025 It’s been about seven months since Google launched its game streaming service,Google Stadia. At the time, Stadia was difficult to recommend. There was only a subscription-based Pro tier available, thegame library was sparse, and Google hadn’t delivered many of the marquee features that were meant to make Stadia unique. It felt like you were paying to take part in a beta program — a feeling that’s become all-too-common when talking about Google services....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Is OnePlus done? What next for the “Flagship Killer?” July 11, 2025 Almost 18 months ago, a little knownChinese companyby the name ofOnePlusannounced its arrival into a saturated marketplace in a big way, with theOnePlus One. Dubbed the “Flagship Killer”, OnePlus adopted a strategy that revolved around viral marketing and aggressive pricing, and at the same time kept a high demand for their phone (or arguably the illusion of it) by making it difficult to buy, thanks to the (dreaded) invite system....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. It might have powerful internals, but the HUAWEI Nova 3 is all about its four cameras June 30, 2025 Huaweimight have more than a few headaches in the U.S., but the company continues to churn out smartphones in more hospitable regions. The HUAWEI Nova 3 is one such smartphone that, while introducing several flagship-level features, focuses on its four cameras....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. KFC turned a chicken box into a Bluetooth game controller, for some reason June 19, 2025 You have to wonder what the marketing folk at KFC are thinking sometimes. Back in 2014, they introduced an oversized drumstick iPhone case in Japan, then in 2015, there were thebucket-printer hybridand thetray-keyboard mash-up. Last year, they came up with theWatt a Box– a box of chicken with a built-in power bank....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Leaked video: Android P’s alleged gesture-based navigation June 09, 2025 We’re hours away from theGoogle I/O keynote, but details of one of the big announcements may have just leaked out. A video shared by Google Plus userGabriel Bryne(viaAndroid Police) appears to show how Android P (presumably in Developer Preview 2) will handle gesture-based navigation. Specifically, the 28-second video shows a gesture called “Swipe up on Home Button”....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG V70: What we want to see from LG’s next flagship phone August 22, 2025 The LG V60 might be one of the most underrated flagship phones of 2020, and we actually thought it was the firm’s best phone in years.LGjust about managed to buck the trend of $1,000+ phones seen from the likes of Samsung, HUAWEI, OPPO, and even Xiaomi....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Looks like it’s OPPO’s turn to clone the Apple Watch now (Update: Launch date) June 17, 2025 Update, June 03, 2025 (1:22AM ET):OPPO has officially revealed the launch date for its first smartwatch. The OPPO watch will launch alongside theOPPO Find X2smartphone on March 6 at 4:30AM ET. The company made the announcement on Twitter and also posted an image of the watch....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Meizu 16s hands-on: A promising all-around flagship (Update: video added) August 21, 2025 Meizu recently announced theMeizu 16s, the company’s newest flagship smartphone. We were lucky enough to have the opportunity to go hands-on with this new device. While the Meizu 16s seems similar to its predecessor, theMeizu 16th, there’s quite a few subtle changes that caught our eye....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Meizu MX6 officially announced: 4GB of RAM, USB Type-C and a fingerprint sensor August 25, 2025 Breaking cadence in arriving after itsProversion,Meizuhas finally launched its dual-SIM MX6 flagship phone. The Pro 6 is still a tad more powerful, but the MX6 is no slouch. Behind an all-metal body there’s a deca-core MediaTek Helio X20 processor that uses a tri-cluster scheme to dynamically switch between groups of processing cores based on workload demands....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft apps coming soon to a Xiaomi phone near you June 20, 2025 Come September,Xiaomiphones including theMi 5,Mi Max,Mi 4s,Redmi Note 3, andRedmi 3will ship with popularMicrosoftapps and services that directly compete with those offered byGoogle. This isn’t new for Microsoft, which has already struck similar deals with companies such asSamsung,Sony, andAsus. The two companies have not shed any light on the financial aspects of the deal....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Muviz puts a nifty music visualization graphic right on your navbar, no root required June 23, 2025 There’s a new music visualizer that can float on your device’s navigation bar, dancing along to your tunes, while almost any music app is cranking them out. Dubbed Muviz, this navbar app is on the Play Store now and it won’t require root access to work....