Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 review August 18, 2025 Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 What we like What we don’t like Our scores 2017 was a great year forXiaomiand the company crossed RMB 100 billion in revenue. In India, the company’s biggest market outside of China, Xiaomi became the biggest smartphone vendor towards the end of the year. Much of that success in India was piggybacking onRedmi Note 4, the bestselling smartphone in the country last year with 9 million units sold....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi teaser may have leaked an unannounced Snapdragon chip August 02, 2025 Xiaomitook to social media to tease the Redmi K30 5G Speed Edition, which will be an upgraded version of the existingRedmi K30. In doing so, the company may have leaked an unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon 768G chip. The phone was first teased on Chinese social networkWeibo. It was hinted that the new Redmi K30 5G Speed Edition would launch at 2:00 PM China Standard Time (2:00 AM ET) on July 19, 2025, in partnership with Chinese retailerJD....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Your Pixel has an awesome shortcut — don’t forget to use it August 12, 2025 In the early smartphone years, devices used to have multiple buttons both below the display and around the sides. Modern minimalistic designs have done away with most of these physical buttons, thus reducing the opportunities to set up hardware-based shortcuts. Thelatest Pixels, though, have figured out a way to include a shortcut without adding any extra physical buttons....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5G, one wireless technology to rule them all? July 30, 2025 The progress from 2G to 3G, and from 3G to 4G LTE has been primarily about improvements to the standards related to cellular technology. However the move from 4G to 5G could be quite different. The current plan is for the 5G standard to be ready by 2020. However, during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games we will see a showcase and demonstration of 5G technology....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alto’s Odyssey will follow up on Alto’s Adventure in 2017 August 02, 2025 Alto’s Adventurequickly became one of the most acclaimed mobile games released in the past few years when it debuted in 2015. The open-ended snowboarding game combined real-world physics with a minimalist, but still beautiful, art style. Today, the team behind the game, Snowman, revealed its next project, Alto’s Odyssey....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Auto coming to Audi dashboards, no phone required July 11, 2025 Android Auto fulfilled a very real need for drivers by giving users a way to bridge the gap between their mobile devices and the infotainment systems built into their cars. Switching from the familiar navigation solution on a phone to a discrete car-based system was jarring and not always as good....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android O’s Project Treble could lead to faster OS updates for smartphones June 26, 2025 Some Android smartphones, even ones that are consider flagship devices, can be slow in receiving big OS updates. Today, Google announced an effort designed to speed up that device update process called Project Treble. It will be a part of the upcomingAndroid Ooperating system and in fact is already included in the current developer preview....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cyanogen teases multiple cheap devices for next year, CM13, and maybe a flagship August 11, 2025 Cyanogen Inc.has been spilling the beans on its plans for 2016 today and there appear to be plenty of projects on the way, including new hardware, developer support and a Marshmallow version of its custom Android operating system. Being a software company, we’ll start with CyanogenMod 13....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Disable Lollipop Heads-up notifications with HeadsOff June 14, 2025 Google introduced a number of new visual tweaks and functions to Android withLollipop, some well received and others not so much. Heads-up notifications are one of the more contentious ones. While some love it, others view it as overly intrusive. If you would rather disable this feature, the HeadsOff app could be what you are looking for....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Exclusive: eZanga finds hundreds of malicious apps in the Play Store Aug 18, 2025 TheGoogle Play Storeis supposed to be a safe haven, a walled garden designed to protect us from the dangers of malicious, unvetted apps and software that would do our smartphones harm. Although the Play Store has a robust anti-virus system in place, it appears that a new wave of malevolent applications has breached the Play Store undetected....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel 4 will get eye detection toggle for face unlock, but when? June 08, 2025 TheGoogle Pixel 4is the latest Android phone family to adopt3D face unlock, being one of the most secure biometric authentication methods around. Unfortunately, theBBCspotted arather glaring omissionlast week, as it noted that there wasn’t an eye detection toggle for the phone’s face unlock....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google will pay $590 million fine in latest legal headache Jul 19, 2025 Regulators aren’t donedemanding corrective actionfrom Google.Android Centralnoted that Google hasagreedto pay a €500 million fine (about $590 million) after France’s competition regulator (Autorité de la concurrence) determined the search giant hadn’t negotiated news content deals “in good faith” with publishers. Google has two months to create proposals showing how it will compensate publishers, and faces a fine of €900,000 (roughly $1 million) per day if it doesn’t comply....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI sold a ton of phones in 2016, but profit margins are declining July 01, 2025 Huawei, the third biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world in terms of sales, has recently released its financial report for 2016. The company probably has some mixed feelings about it based on the fact that it increased its revenue by 32 percent, while its operating profit stayed more or less the same when compared with the previous year (0....