Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Analyst says that Nokia should adopt Android before it’s too late August 16, 2025 The Android, Windows, Nokia discussion is a bit of an old one, but there has been a resurgence of interest in Nokia’s operating system of choice recently. Fresh data is suggesting that Nokia is really starting to feel the pressure after tying itself into Microsoft’s platform – the company even recently lost out to Samsungon its home turf....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. AR Emoji vs Animoji: The differences explained July 27, 2025 TheGalaxy S9is here and like the rumors suggested,Samsunghas taken a leaf out of Apple’s book with its new AR Emoji feature. TheiPhone Xbought Animoji last year and Samsung’s comparative attempt brings a similar overall experience, but what are the key differences? Read Next:Android emoji – everything you need to know...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ARM releases public beta version of mbed OS, includes source code July 10, 2025 When it was first announced mbed OS was exclusively designed for the Cortex-M, which meant that if you wanted to build an IoT device with mbed OS you had to be using a Cortex-M based board. However in April ARM announceda companion to mbed OS called mbed Client, a set of core libraries which will allow mbed OS programs to be ported to Cortex-A based computers and boards running Linux....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. BlackBerry Priv disappears from T-Mobile’s website June 01, 2025 It’s almost hard to believe, but at this point in time last year the mobile tech world was seemingly salivating at the prospect of the BlackBerry “Venice”, the device that would eventually go on to be branded as the Priv. The prospectwas set to shake up the Android worldsomething fierce and even featureda strangely familiar faceto boot....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. By your powers combined: Is it too late for Google’s wearable alliance? June 10, 2025 Google’s Android operating system for smartwatches has seen multiple revamps in its less than a decade-long existence. First introduced in 2014, the software appeared as Android Wear on devices like the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live. In 2018, Google introduced Android Wear 2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Custom navigation overlay with GravityBox Pie controls - Android customization June 18, 2025 We started looking at root tools for your rooted Android device a few weeks ago, and we wish to continue with thatAndroid customizationproject today. Join us for our continuation of our look at GravityBox, one of the more powerful Xposed modules around, we’ll be tackling the Pie controls navigation tool today....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Do you prefer smartphones made of glass or metal? (Poll of the Week) June 28, 2025 Last week’s poll summary:Out ofover 2,700 total votes, 78.6 percent of voters said they’re interested in theHTC U12 Plus, while 21.4 percent are not. The results were a bit more mixedon our social channels. Only 53 percent of YouTube voters think the U12 Plus is a hot phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Emergency security update coming to Nexus devices due to discovered exploit June 25, 2025 Thepromise of monthly security updatesis refreshing, but not even keeping devices that protected is enough sometimes.Googlehas just announced they are releasing a mid-month security patch due to the discovery of an exploit that could bring harm to some devices; namely, theNexus 5andNexus 6. The issue arose after Google found out about a rooting application using an “unpatched local elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel”....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Essential Phone’s 360-degree camera can now live stream to Facebook July 27, 2025 The 360-camera add-on that’s now available for theEssential Phonejust got a bit more useful. The company has issued a software update that will allow the camera to stream live 360-degree videos toFacebook. If you own the phone and the add-on, you can snap on the 360-degree camera to the back of the Essential Phone and launch its companion app....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fortnite for Android beta arriving exclusively to Samsung, for now June 15, 2025 It’s finally here. Epic Games is launchingFortnite for Androidstarting today. As previously rumored, Epic says the beta version of the highly popular battle royale shooter will first arrive on select Samsung smartphones and tablets starting today. Fortnite will then expand to more Android phones after August 12th....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google brings the third-generation Chromecast to India August 25, 2025 Googlekept its latestChromecastoff stage at its recent hardware event in New York earlier this month keeping the focus on the Pixels, the Pixel Slate, and the Google Home Hub, but the product went on sale in the US soon after the event wrapped up. The 2018 Google Chromecast is the third-generation product from the company and has quickly made its way to India....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel 4 vs Pixel 3 vs Pixel 3a: Which Google phone is right for you? June 16, 2025 2019 saw the release of two sets of Google Pixel phones for the first time in a calendar year. First we got theGoogle Pixel 3aand3a XL— the first budget Pixels from the search giant — and then came the true successor to 2018’sPixel 3series — theGoogle Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to catch Ditto in Pokémon Go: Tricks to get the amorphous shapeshifter August 18, 2025 Ditto is one of the most unique and elusive Pokémon inPokémon Go, with the ability to transform into any Pokémon in the game. This can make it difficult to know where or how to catch Ditto in Niantic’s hitAR game, but fortunately there are a few tricks to speed up the process and make it a bit less painful....