Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. June 06, 2025 GoogleandApplehave removed threedating appsfrom their respective app stores after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that children were allowed to use them. Even though the three apps’ privacy policies supposedly prohibited sign-ups for those under the age of 13, the apps didn’t actively block those who indicated they were under 13. Meet24, FastMeet, and Meet4U also allegedly didn’t block others from contacting those who indicated they were under 13 during the sign-up process....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Fiber redefined cheap speed for the home, now sets eyes on small business Jun 27, 2025 Competition, competition, competition. That is something that Google Fiber has drastically improved broadband-wise across the country. Even if Google didn’t intend to have this effect, it has done so and then some. Cities went begging to Google to have their 1Gbps service installed in and around their cities....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google fined $123 million in Italy for abusing Android Auto dominance June 06, 2025 Google has already been slapped with severalheftyfinesin recent years due to antitrust violations in its various businesses. Now, Italy’s antitrust watchdog has hit Google with a €102 million (~$123.1 million) fine for excluding a third-party app fromAndroid Auto. The fine was handed down after the Italian Competition Authority found Google barred charging station appJuicePassfrom Android Auto....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google takes even more control over OS updates with Android 12 June 18, 2025 Despite arriving faster than in previous years, timely Android updates are still a bugbear of Google’s mobile ecosystem. Google started down the road to solving this problem with 2017’sProject Treble, this was then extended to enable component updates via Google Play withProject Mainline. Google is nowextendingthe scope of Project Mainline in Android 12 to encompass the Android Runtime (ART)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How the OnePlus 8 series looks in the light of day, and more tech news today July 08, 2025 1. OnePlus 8 launch and reviews: Familiar flagships, unfamiliar prices The OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro launched yesterday with big specs, new features, and price tags to match – plus reviews dropped immediately, so we already know what to think....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC U12 Life review: If at first you don’t succeed… June 11, 2025 HTC U12 Life What we like What we don’t like HTCis in free fall, with no clearly defined product strategy. Itsold half its R&D team to Googleat the start of the year, and still doesn’t have a coherent approach to marketing — right now HTCseems like a company in quicksand....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI P30 Pro vs Mate 20 Pro: Is the better camera worth it? July 02, 2025 The HUAWEI P30 Pro is the photography king of 2019 (so far). With four cameras and a massive arsenal of advanced features, it’s flashy enough to make you forget about HUAWEI’s other flagship, the six-month-old Mate 20 Pro. HUAWEI P30 Pro review: A phone with superpowers...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. MediaTek Dimensity 800 launched: 5G is starting to go mainstream July 15, 2025 SamsungandQualcommhave both announced5Gchipsets designed for more affordable devices, and it’s now MediaTek’s turn to reveal a mid-range 5G processor. The Taiwanese chip designer has announced the Dimensity 800 chipset in Las Vegas, coming in below the flagship-level Dimensity 1000 processor. And it looks like this new processor is taking on Qualcomm’s latest mid-range silicon....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. More Red Hydrogen One specs leak ahead of launch June 27, 2025 TheRed Hydrogen Onewill be shipped out to pre-order customers next week, but we still don’t know much about the new smartphone. Fortunately, Google’sAndroid Enterprisepage has yielded a few more key details. The updated Google page, spotted byAndroid Headlinesand seen below, reveals that the Hydrogen One will offer 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Moto G7 Play leaks with mid-tier specs, a single rear camera, and a notch June 05, 2025 Earlier this month, we saw two Motorola smartphonespass through the FCCwhich we assumed were the Moto G7 and G7 Plus. Now, thanks to a filing on theFCCwebsite found byDroid-Life, we have real-life photos of the Moto G7 Play and details about the handset’s internals....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. NVIDIA Shield TV and Shield TV Pro (2019) are here: Everything you need to know June 23, 2025 Thebest Android TV boxyou can buy is getting even better with the release of theNVIDIA Shield TV (2019)and the NVIDIA Shield TV Pro. Not content with completely obliterating the competition with one killer Android TV device, NVIDIA now has two set-top boxes — one cheaper, redesigned unit for the mainstream and another more traditional upgrade over theShield TV (2017)for hardcore gamers and streaming addicts....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Plastic OLED to drive huge growth in flexible smartphone panels August 01, 2025 Flexible displaysmay have only made a small appearance in the smartphone market so far, but the industry for plasticOLEDpanels looks set for a boom across the handset, tablet, TV, and wearable segments.IDTechEx Researchhas forecast that the flexible OLED market will bring in over $12 billion in revenue this year, and that it could be worth $57 billion by 2026....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Poll: Could you go back to an audio jack after using Bluetooth headphones? June 08, 2025 Since the release of the iPhone 7, we’ve seen almost all phone manufacturers drop headphone jacks from their high-end phones. Samsung was a noteworthy holdout for a while, but even it removed the port from theNote 10last year. It’s easy to see why the entire industry went the way that it did....