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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 100x zoom is pointless, and it looks like Samsung might agree with Note 20 July 13, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy S20 Ultrahad arguably the best camera specs on paper in 2020, featuring a 108MP main camera and a 48MP 4x periscope camera. In fact, Samsung touted a 100x “Space Zoom” feature on the device, claiming 100x zoom. Now, frequent leaker Ice Universe has tweeted that theGalaxy Note 20 serieswon’t offer this feature....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5G networks will change our lives for good – But at what cost? August 22, 2025 5G is the first stage of technology that might be capable of delivering a1984existence, where the powerful can monitor and control us. This isn’t a call for tinfoil hats. This isn’t the regular old despair at new technologies disrupting our lives, taking our jobs, and making everything (including those 737s) worse....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. A Samsung 25W wireless charger exists. Fast charging on the way for Galaxy S22? July 14, 2025 Wireless chargingis a cool perk. It’s usually slower than wired charging, but not needing to fumble with a cable sure is nice. Some companies, though, are making wireless charging faster, such as OnePlus, which offers 50W speeds with theOnePlus 9 Pro(combined with its proprietary charging stand)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Amazon now has its own video conferencing service called Chime June 11, 2025 Amazonis taking onSkypeand other online conferencing services with its own video chat solution. It’s called Chime and as with most other similar services, it allows users to start or join both video as well as voice calls. It’s primarily targeted at business, but as a clean, easy to use online communication tool it will likely appeal to plenty of folks....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android 10 update for the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro is still missing for many users August 22, 2025 It was almost two weeks ago whenOnePlus dropped the Android 10 updatefor the OnePlus 7 series, including theOnePlus 7 Pro. However, according tousers on Redditas well as theofficial OnePlus forums, many people still don’t have the update. OnePlus did say the Android 10 upgrade would be a slow rollout, but that usually means over the span of a few days....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Nankathai? What if Android fans got to name Android N? July 11, 2025 What if Android users got to say what Android N will be called? Sundar Pichai casually floated the idea during a Q&A session yesterday at India’s Delhi University. Pichai is in India this week topresent Google’s initiatives for the country, a crucial market that Google sees as a testbed for its projects and an engine of its future growth....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple drops Bose from retail to sell own headphones, and more tech news today August 09, 2025 1. Making waves in sound Not one but three stories here around audio and smart devices. The first is that Apple has, per aBloomberg report, quietly stopped selling third-party audio gear from its retail stores. Bose, Sonos, and some Logitech headphones and speakers have disappeared, leaving only Apple audio....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Automatically Setting Your Phone to Silent Mode According to Place or Time June 28, 2025 Because smartphones are both handy and useful, we tend to toss them into our bags and bring them with us anywhere we go–at our bedside, in our offices, at dinner dates, and back to the bedside as we retire for the night. While your Android phone can alert you to incoming notifications, calls, text messages, or important reminders, there are certain circumstances when you’d need to use audible alerts, and there are certain situations when you need to place your phone in vibramode or silent mode....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. AVG reveals the worst storage, battery and data hogging apps August 01, 2025 AVG, an antivirus and app cleaning software prodiver, has put together its latest quarterly study to help identify the worst battery, data, storage and performance consuming apps on Android smartphones and tablets. The list contains a number of familiar facesfrom the last report, as well as a few new entries....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Behind the scenes at realme’s manufacturing facility July 26, 2025 Just about a year ago,Realmespun off from OPPO and decided to become a full-fledged smartphone player in its own right. Since then, the company has grown by leaps and bounds and can today be called one of the few credible competitors toXiaomiin India. Indeed, realme has already climbed up to thefourth positionin the Indian smartphone ecosystem....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best task switchers and multitasking apps for Android August 12, 2025 Though our Android mobile devices have allowed us to remove ourselves from in front of our desktops and to leave our heavy laptops behind at home, working from a mobile device just isn’t the same. It isn’t in the apps we have at our disposal but in how fast we can multitask....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Budget iPhones and premium OnePlus phones: Where do we go from here? June 03, 2025 2020 has been a strange year for the tech industry.Events canceled, products delayed, doubt and fear about the long-term impact of theCOVID-19 pandemic. Among all this disruption, it seems fitting that Apple and OnePlus appear to have abandoned their usual strategies, each taking a leaf out of the other’s playbook....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cooler Master NotePal U3 Plus review: Modular and powerful June 24, 2025 Cooler Master NotePal U3 Plus What we like What we don’t like There are many types of laptops. However, gaming laptops are the biggest culprit for overheating. They have the strongest CPUs in the laptop space along with powerful GPUs. Both work really hard when gaming and it’s hard to keep them cool in the process....