Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This is how paranoid you have to be to prosecute Google July 30, 2025 A little known fact of the French tax authority’s prosecution of Google France is just how paranoid the team was in the year leading up to thesurprise raidlast week. to avoid any possibility of Google discovering the raid, the Direction Générale des Finances (DGF) used code names, worked entirely offline and only used one computer the whole time – as a word processor only....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Watch the global launch of Xiaomi’s Mi 10 series here on March 27 August 14, 2025 Xiaomi launched theMi 10 and the Mi 10 Proin China back in February. The new flagship series was set to make its global debut atMWC 2020, but both the launch and the trade show werecanceleddue to thecoronavirussituation. Now, Xiaomi is all set to announce the Mi 10 series globally on March 27....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi sees the light, starts testing app drawer and app shortcuts in MIUI August 02, 2025 For years now, the native launcher in Xiaomi’s Android skin known asMIUIhas been missing two features that nearly every other Android skin has: an app drawer and app shortcuts. Now, according to research conducted byXDA Developers, it appears both those features are in early alpha testing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 1.5 million HONOR 8 handsets sold in just two months August 02, 2025 Huawei’sHONOR 8may only have gone on sale back in July, but the company has so far racked up 1.5 million units worth of sales in the last two months. HONOR’s Vice President Zhao Ming made the announcement during a recent press event in China. Rather impressively, these sales figures come only since the handset’s more limited retail launch in China....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple hires Samsung battery bigwig: More durable iPhone batteries incoming? June 08, 2025 Apple’s latest crop ofiPhonesseem to offer solid endurance for the most part. But that hasn’t stopped the company from hiring a Samsung battery executive to (hopefully) drive improvements. Soonho Ahn joined Apple last month from Samsung SDI (the Korean company’s battery division), according toBloomberg. Ahn was a senior vice president at the Samsung unit, but now serves as the global head of battery developments at the Cupertino company, according to his LinkedIn account....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple’s next Watch may lack new health features but pack improved design July 09, 2025 The nextApple Watchline, presumed to bear the Series 7 name, will gain several design and performance upgrades. This is according to a new report byBloomberg. Per “people with knowledge of the matter,” the Apple Watch Series 7 may employ a display with thinner borders, a new laminate layer, and a slightly thicker body....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Beware of the benchmarks, how to know what to look for August 07, 2025 As regular followers of the wonderful world of Android you have probably glanced through numerous benchmarks already this year, especially when it comes to stacking new devices up against one another. However, after numerous scandals, odd results and the closed nature of many benchmarking tools, many are skeptical about their actual value....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bixby assistant in Samsung Galaxy S8 may be used in all pre-installed apps July 26, 2025 The rumor mill for the upcomingSamsung Galaxy S8continues to churn out new stories on Samsung’s upcoming flagship. The latest such report claims that the next flagship smartphone from Samsung will be using its new Bixby voice assistant for nearly all of its pre-installed apps....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook hit with €110 million fine in Europe over WhatsApp acquisition June 16, 2025 Facebook has been hit with a large fine. The European Commission ordered Facebook to pay €110 million (around $122 million) for providing incorrect or misleading information during the acquisition of WhatsApp. Back in 2014, the company informed the Commission that it would be unable to link the profiles of users onWhatsAppandFacebook....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google ceases sales of Pixel 2 and 2 XL – Bring on the discounts! August 04, 2025 If you pay a visit to theGoogle Store, you’ll find something missing: theGoogle Pixel 2 and Google Pixel 2 XL. As first spotted byAndroid Police, Google appears to no longer be selling its two 2017 devices. The Google Pixel 2 product listing page was originally locatedhere; a visit to that page now forwards you to the page for theGoogle Pixel 3, sending a not-so-subtle signal that you should probably buy that one instead....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Duplex callers are sometimes actually humans (Updated) June 03, 2025 Update, June 12, 2025 (02:34 PM ET):Google clarified for us how Duplex works when it comes to handing off tasks to a human rather than a bot. According to Google, the system will verify a variety of details to determine whether a human should call or if it can take care of the call on its own....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Hands-on with Nokia’s new affordable range for 2018 June 15, 2025 It’s barely been three months since HMD Global introduced a handful of Nokia phones at MWCearlier this year, but the firm is already back with another batch of new devices. This time, the resurgent brand is focusing on refreshing its affordable range, updating the Nokia 2, Nokia 3, and Nokia 5....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR 9i review August 08, 2025 Honor HONOR 9i What we like What we don’t like Our scores Honorhas launched some pretty good phones in the last year or so. Slowly but surely it’s been establishing a foothold in markets like India. The company has also not shied away from adopting, or even being early on, trends like dual cameras....