Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Marvel and Nexon are teaming up for Marvel Battle Lines card game August 04, 2025 Marvel and Nexon have announced a new partnership to develop a new card game called Marvel Battle Lines. This won’t be the first mobile card game based in the Marvel universe, with the previous War of Heroes that was discontinued in 2016. This time, with a big name like Nexon taking the reigns, it’s likely to feature much more polish than the previous release....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft could launch an Xbox game streaming stick for xCloud August 17, 2025 Microsoft may add more than just expensive consoles to its future device portfolio. Xbox head Phil Spencer has teased the debut of “lower-priced hardware” to encourage users to adopt itsXbox cloud gamingstreaming service xCloud. Spencer, speaking toStratechery(viaThe Verge), suggests such hardware could take the form of “streaming sticks” or another portable form factor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus discontinues 128 GB OnePlus 3T, 64 GB options still available (Updated) August 11, 2025 “As we’ve matured as a company we’ve made a lot of improvements to our supply chain. We recently sold out of the OnePlus 3T Midnight Black last week, and now some versions of the OnePlus 3T are beginning to sell out in some regions. Everything is right on track....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OPPO will officially unveil the R7 this May (updated) July 11, 2025 Update:OPPO reached out to us and wanted to clarify that the teaser image below actually contains several keywords (in Chinese) that help give us a better picture of what to expect from the OPPO R7: Interestingly enough, to better illustrate the super slim design and the 2.5D glass, OPPO referenced to three previously leaked images of the device, all-but confirming that the images are legit:...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Qualcomm confirms Snapdragon chipsets getting rebranded: Here’s what we know June 04, 2025 Today, chipset manufacturerQualcommissued a big announcement. Starting this year, it will be rebranding its most prominent products, namely its lines of mobile processors. That means the current Snapdragon 8xx, 7xx, 6xx, etc., names will be no more. See also:All of Qualcomm’s smartphone processors explained We are right on the cusp of the expected launch of the next Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, which up until now was thought to be the Snapdragon 898....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Motorola thinks you’ll buy a “mid-range” Razr foldable phone for $1,500 June 05, 2025 It’s been a while since we’ve heard any concrete details on the Motorola Razr brand’slong-awaited return as a folding smartphone. A new report suggests we won’t have to wait much longer, however, as the reimagined flip phone could hit the U.S. in just a “few months....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Xiaomi just enjoyed its best-ever quarter for smartphone shipments June 26, 2025 Xiaomihas been on a roll lately as the global smartphone market continues to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. Tracking firm Strategy Analyticspreviously reportedthat the manufacturer claimed third position for global marketshare in Q1 2021, just two percentage points behind Apple. But a new report suggests Xiaomi’s performance is even better than expected....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung explains how Samsung Pay will work June 10, 2025 The announcement ofSamsung Payarrived as mobile payments look set to become an increasingly important and lucrative business, withApple unveiling its own payment systemand a revampedGoogle Wallet,and possibly anAndroid Payplatform, also rumored to be in the works. If you’re curious about how Samsung Pay will work in practise,Samsunghas dished out details on a few more specifics....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 4 chipset is a giant leap for Wear OS smartwatches July 01, 2025 Samsung hasannouncedthe new Exynos W920 chipset that’ll power its upcomingGalaxy Watch 4smartwatches. The SoC is the industry’s first 5nm-based wearables processor and the first processor upgrade forSamsung watchessince the original Galaxy Watch. So why is the Exynos W920 a big deal? For starters, it’ll only be thethird chipsetcapable of supporting the newWear OS 3....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Say hello to the Samsung Galaxy S9 in Ice Blue August 25, 2025 Even though theGalaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plusare a few months away from their first birthdays,Samsungquietly rolled out a newIce Bluecolor option for both phones. What is nice about the Ice Blue option is that it is a color gradient, the first time a Samsung flagship smartphone offers such a color scheme....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The first April Fool’s Day casualty is in: Gmail’s “Mic Drop” feature cost people their jobs [UPDATE] June 09, 2025 April 1st is a great day for pranking, hoodwinking and otherwise pulling the wool over people’s eyes. But in the rush to make a truly memorable and catchy April Fool’s Day joke, things can occasionally get out of hand. So it was with this year’s first April’s Fool’s Day casualty: Gmail’s Mic Drop feature, which got so out of hand it had already cost some people their jobs before the feature was pulled....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Toshiba Chromebook 2 refresh includes Broadwell-based Intel chips and other improvements July 26, 2025 In 2014 Toshiba brought us two Chromebooks, aptly named theToshiba Chromebookand theToshiba Chromebook 2. Here in 2015, we’ve yet to see refresh, until now. Interestingly enough, the latest Toshiba Chromebook doesn’t get a new number designation attached and is simply a “refreshed” Chromebook 2. While the original Chromebook 2 offered up a dual-core Intel Celeron processor, the 2015 refresh includes the option of a Celeron, Core i3, or Core i5 chip, all based on the Intel 5th-gen “Broadwell” architecture....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Twitter hires developer of Falcon Pro to help improve the official Android app August 08, 2025 The officialTwitterapplication for Android isn’t necessarilybad, it’s just not the most intuitive or attractive option in the Play Store. There are a multitude of great third party Twitter apps available, most of which bring some handy features to the social network that aren’t available through the official app....