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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You told us: Most of you think your fitness tracker data is good enough June 13, 2025 Fitness trackers generally need to be reliable, as the last thing you want is for your accrued kilometers, steps taken, and more to be completely incorrect. But just how trusting are you of your tracker’s sensor data? That’s the subject of our latest poll results article, as we askedAndroid Authorityreaders whether they thought their fitness tracker’s sensor data was accurate....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. YouTube dark theme is rolling out (we’ve already got it) June 05, 2025 Even though Googlecontinuously ignoresAndroid fans’ pleas for a universal dark theme systemwide across the operating system, at least it is finally offering users the next-best-thing:dark themes for individual apps. Finally, we can add a YouTube dark theme to that list. YouTube dark theme first showed upin an APK teardownat the very beginning of 2018, and then arrived on iOS devices in March of this year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ASUS Zenfone Zoom hands-on and first impressions July 11, 2025 Along with the affordable Zenfone 2, ASUS took the wraps off another camera-centric smartphone at CES 2015. We got to spend some time with this device, and here is our first look as we go hands-on with the ASUS Zenfone Zoom! As the name suggests, Zenfone Zoom comes with a 13 MP rear shooter with a 3x optical zoom, with optical image stabilization, and a laser auto-focus system, all of which should allow for a fantastic camera experience....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Call of Duty: Strike Team lands on Google Play August 19, 2025 For Android gamers that also have an affinity for theCall of Dutyseries, today’s the day you’ve been waiting for.Call of Duty: StrikeTeam has arrived to Android! Strike Team isn’t your typical CoD shooter, and instead focuses on a mobile-friendly top-view down mode that allows you to command your team with ease....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Deal: Razer throws in a free Leviathan Mini if you buy the Razer Phone July 26, 2025 Available since November,Razerdoesn’t appear ready to discount its flagshipRazer Phonejust yet. What the companyisready to do, however, is throw in one of its Bluetooth speakers for free if you buy its smartphone. For 48 hours, if you pick up the $700 Razer Phone through the company’s website, you can get its Leviathan Mini Bluetooth speaker for free....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Devs have 16X zoom working well on Google Pixel 4, with (bad) 50X zoom possible Jul 05, 2025 The Google Camera app that comes with theGoogle Pixel 4allows for up to 8X zoom, with about 2X of that zoom being optical and the rest coming from theGoogle Super Res Zoomalgorithm. However, a developer named “cstark27” over atXDA Developershas figured out a way to bump up that artificial zoom all the way to 50X....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. First Pixel Buds feature drop coming soon, will fix pesky audio cutouts July 22, 2025 Google will finally fix some pesky audio issues with an upcoming update for thePixel Buds. According toForbes,the company is planning to release the first feature drop for itsTWS earbudsin August. While Google hasn’t revealed the details of the upcoming feature drop, it has promised a fix for the widely reported issue ofaudio cutouts....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fitbit Versa now on sale for $199, quick replies and female health tracking coming in May August 11, 2025 TheFitbit Versais a big improvement over the company’s first smartwatch, theIonic. It’s not as bulky and uncomfortable, it looks much nicer, and its software isn’t as laggy. If you’ve been waiting to get your hands (wrists?) on one, now’s your chance....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Assistant will see the future, tell you about potential flight delays June 27, 2025 No one likes flight delays. As much as we wish they wouldn’t happen, they will, and there’s not much we can do about it. However,Googlecan lessen the blow of a flight delay by using machine learning to predict when the delay might occur. Soon,you’ll be able to use Google Assistantto access this predictive information so you can easily learn about your upcoming flights with a few voice commands....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Assistant will soon offer personalized picks and results August 11, 2025 As part ofGoogle I/O 2019, the company announced new personalized features that will be rolled out toGoogle Assistant. These new results, called Personal References, will be based on your own Assistant history. For example, you will be able to ask Google Assistant, “Hey Google, what’s the weather like at my mom’s house this weekend?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s how Google created the new voice of Search July 26, 2025 You might’ve read about thesmooth new voice rolling out to Google Search, or maybe you already have it on your devices. Now, Google’s Nat and Lo are giving us a peek at how the magic happens. In a new video, the two Googlers talk to the linguists, voice coaches, and voice actors that work to make synthesized voice sound as natural as possible....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How does a mobile network actually work? June 11, 2025 If you were asked to pick a single technological innovation that revolutionized the modern world, that brought us into a new era of globalized commerce, exchange, and communication, and which totally overhauled the way we think about the size of our world and our interconnectedness as human beings, then your only real option is:Containerization, which is the standardization ofintermodal freight transport containersfor use on trucks, trains, and container ships....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI MediaPad M5 hands-on: More than multimedia June 04, 2025 HUAWEI just announced its newest Android tablet, The HUAWEI MediaPad M5, atMWC 2018. Coming in two sizes, the MediaPad M5 is a consummate media consumption machine, but the addition of an optional keyboard and stylus make it more than just another screen for watchingNetflix. Speaking of streaming, Ankit Jhaveri, HUAWEI’s senior director of mobile computing, told us Netflix’s decision to allow users to download content for offline viewing has been a boon for HUAWEI’s tablet business....