Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ASUS ZenFone 4 Max officially launched with massive 5,000 mAh battery July 05, 2025 According toHelpix, the ZenFone 4 Max will launch in Russia with a dual-lens camera and a 5,000 mAh battery. All for around $235. We’ve been hearing a lot about ASUS’ ZenFone 4 family as of late:we saw a reference to the ZenFone 4 Maxas early as May, and rumors speculated that the ZenFone 4 family might launch later that month....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Daily Authority: 📦 Amazon price increase August 20, 2025 Happy Friday! Hope you all have fun plans for the weekend. Amazon Prime price increase We totally understand if your instinct is to be mad at Amazon, nobody likes paying more for a thing, especially if that thing feels almost essential in today’sonline shopping world. Amazon makes some solid arguments for the price hike, and it’sa fair argument that the price is still worth it for the service, but we can’t help but look at Amazon’s soaring profits and wonder....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Essential vs Moto Mods - two very different takes the same modular idea August 05, 2025 Last year, the word “modular” was injected into the mainstream vocabulary of smartphone enthusiasts. Sure, it had been there for a while as a kind ofaspirational idea, but never really real. Then, suddenly within a span of a couple of months, we had two mainstream smartphones pushing out the concept....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Evidence suggests Google might make RCS chat features available to other apps August 01, 2025 After years of waiting for US carriers to get their collective act together,Googlefinally stepped up and brought Rich Communication Services (RCS) to the masses in 2020. RCS is basically enhanced text messaging, which allows you to get read receipts, send large files, share location information, and more....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook M is a digital assistant within Messenger, can buy things and more August 23, 2025 Back in July we reported that Facebook Messenger was set to get its own virtual digital assistant,codenamed Moneypenny. Now it is official, and is formally dubbed Facebook M. Facebook’s David Marcus calls M a “personal digital assistant inside of Messenger”, and we have to admit the idea of baking a digital assistant into a messaging platform is intriguing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fake reviews on the Play Store reportedly growing and getting smarter June 08, 2025 Fake reviews for apps on the Play Store are nothing new per se, but according to TNW, they’re growing, and they’re getting smarter. Online bots posting fake reviews on the Play Store is not a new phenomenon; however, TNW claims that this type of behavior is becoming more widespread in the Play Store and that Google must respond accordingly....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. For the first time ever, smartphone sales go down year-over-year July 02, 2025 Smartphone sales fell overall inthe last quarter of 2017for the first time ever. Research and advisory companyGartnerstarted tracking the global smartphone market in 2004 (right around the release of thePalm Treo 650, for those old enough to remember that). Since then, each passing year saw smartphone sales increase or level off, until now....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S22 series specs blowout: S22, S22 Plus could get major zoom boost June 19, 2025 Samsung will unveil itsGalaxy S22 serieson February 9, with the firm expected to launch the base Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22 Plus, and Galaxy S22 Ultra on the day. We’ve already seen a ton of renders and specs leak, and now the ever-reliableWinFuturehas posted a blowout of specs....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge updated with touch improvements June 12, 2025 Samsunghas begun rolling out a new update to itsGalaxy S7andGalaxy S7 Edgeflagships, which is landing in a number of different regions around the world. There are a selection of improvements bundled into the package, including tweaks to the way that touches are handled and a new camera feature to correct skewed looking shapes in photographs....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gboard for Android gets Google Translate support, emoji suggestions and more in latest update August 10, 2025 The first public beta build of Gboard for Androidrolled out last week, bringing a number of new features that are certain to help users communicate much quicker. Now those changes are available for everyone. Probably the biggest new addition in this release is Google Translate support....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Get Minecraft: Story Mode for about the cost of a gumball from a gumball machine July 02, 2025 There are two types of gamers in the world: those who believe in meaningful, clean-cut divisions between gamers and those who believe that such categorizations are meaninglessly reductive. Regardless of which camp you fall into, it’s clear that there are some gamers who prefer storytelling over sprawling sandbox landscapes....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google sued by its own employee for running an internal “spying program” June 11, 2025 A project manager over atGoogleis taking his employer to court. The employee, who goes by the name of John Doe for privacy reasons, has filed a lawsuit against Google because he believes that the company’s confidentiality policies, which include an internal “spying program”, are violating labor laws in California....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google to fix Pixel 2 XL’s audio recording issue in upcoming patch [Updated] August 15, 2025 The person who started theRedditthread provided ‘before and after’ samples to show the difference, before other users have chimed in to confirm that the problem has been resolved for them too. In other good news is, you no longer need to sideload the factory images to install the Developer Preview 2 — it’s now rolling out OTA for those on the Android Beta program....