Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s how Google is improving the Assistant on Smart Displays August 09, 2025 Google just held its Google Assistant Developer day, where it unveileddeeper integration of the Assistant with Android apps. Instead of simply asking the Assistant to open apps, you can ask it to perform specific actions within those apps, like logging food in MyFitnessPal or starting a run with Nike Run Club....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI MediaPad M5 and M5 Pro: Price, availability, and release date June 17, 2025 TheAndroidtablet space might be closer to a barren wasteland than a thriving market, but that did not stopHuaweifrom announcing theMediaMad M5 and M5 Produring MWC 2018 in February. Since then, however, the Chinese manufacturer has remained tight-lipped about the tablets’ price and availability. HUAWEI finally broke its silence today and announced how much the MediaPad M5 and M5 Pro cost in the U....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Is this how the ASUS Zenfone 3 and Zenfone 3 Deluxe will look? July 11, 2025 Even with its low price, theASUS Zenfone 2managed to be an enticing phone with good specs and a build quality that is hard to beat at its price range. I was recommending the phone left and right, but it has been over a year since that phone was launched....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Luxury watch maker Gc to launch its first smartwatches based on Android Wear June 18, 2025 Yet another luxury watch maker is going to be entering the already crowded field ofAndroid Wear-based smartwatches in the near future. The Swiss-based company Gc will release its lineup of Connect smartwatches later in 2017. According toPocket-lint, the GC Connect devices are similar in style to the company’s Gc Structura watches....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. March update leaves some Galaxy Note 9 devices with broken displays July 03, 2025 It looks like Pixel owners aren’t the only people withMarch update woes. SeveralSamsung Galaxy Note 9users have been experiencing serious display issues since updating to March’s security patch. Over on Samsung’s community forum, users have been reportingscreen discoloration,heating issues, and lower display resolutions. This includes a green and yellow tint across their displays,grainy black lineswhen their devices’ brightness auto adapts at lower levels, and screen resolutions that randomly drop after handsets overheat....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Move over, microSD: new Samsung UFS memory cards deliver super fast speeds July 25, 2025 New UFS memory cards leave microSD in the dust in terms of speed, but it will be a while before they become common. Samsungannounced today the industry’s first memory cards based on the UFS removable card standard. The new standard wasfinalized in March by JEDEC, an industry body that develops standards used in the semiconductor industry, and is based on UFS 2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. New version of Razer Phone adds gold color to its back logo July 06, 2025 TheRazer Phonewas one of the more impressive Android smartphones released in 2017, at least in terms of its gaming and hardware features. It’s now 2018 and yet the Razer phone remains a compelling choice. Making a great thing even better, today Razer started selling a limited edition version of the phone, which replaces the normal Razer logo on the back for one that has a gold color....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nexus 4, is that you? No, it’s the VAIO phone July 16, 2025 For those of us who used to cherish Sony’s once proud VAIO brand, 2014 was a truly depressing year, as it saw the VAIO line’s rights sold off to a third party company. Fast-forwarding to today, VAIO is a solo company, and arguably just a shadow of what it once was....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 8 international giveaway! July 27, 2025 NOTE:This giveaway has now ended.Check out the latest giveaway here. It’s time for the Sunday giveaway! Like every week, we’re giving away a brand new Android device to one luckyAndroid Authorityreader. A big congratulations to the winner of last week’sSamsung Galaxy A71 giveaway, Het V. from India. The daily email arrives fresh at around 7 a....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus “Ladies First” competition looks like another marketing blunder (update 2) August 09, 2025 Update:Likely in response to all the negative media attention the “Ladies First” contest has received, OnePlus has now apparently pulled the entire contest’s forum page. It is currently unclear whether they are tweaking the contest and plan to repost it or if they have simply ended it completely....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy Note 6 rumor roundup: specs, release date, features and more June 09, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy S7andS7 Edgeare all the hype right now, but we know many of you believe the Note series is the true Samsung flagship every year. And rightfully so, Note phones usually come later in the year, boasting superior specs, improved functionality, larger batteries and more....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung official says ‘nothing has progressed’ for Galaxy Fold launch event July 23, 2025 According to an unnamed Samsung official speaking withThe Korea Herald, there haven’t been any formal preparations for the relaunch of theSamsung Galaxy Foldsince April, when the companyannounced the delay of the foldable phone’s launch. “If we are running such a media event this month, we should be doing something by now,” said the unnamed Samsung employee....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Snapchat group video chat is here, Instagram will do it better soon (probably) August 21, 2025 Snapchatinvented the concept of “stories.” You know, those daily collections of images, video, and text thatFacebook,Instagram, and other social media networks now have. Except with theSnapchat redesign, those stories pretty much suck now, while Instagram’s stories are straightforward, upfront, andwildly successful. So, it stands to reason that now that we havea Snapchat group video chatfeature rolling out today, we can expect to see a better version of that feature appear on Instagram in no time at all....