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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5 things we want to see from HUAWEI in 2021 August 14, 2025 2020 wasn’t a kind year to any of us and especially not toHuawei. US trade restrictions took their toll, hampering its Western flagship launches and leading to thesale of its HONOR sub-brand. HUAWEI’s 5G networking and other operations also took a hit, despite a number of other tech companies wanting to continue working with the brand....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 7 more marketing tricks phone brands should stop using right now June 20, 2025 Smartphone manufacturers aren’t strangers to sly marketing tricks, as they aim to draw attention to their products and garner more sales in the process. Some of the more prominent tactics we’ve covered before include photo fakery, benchmark cheating, and misleading renders. These aren’t the only examples of sketchy marketing we’ve seen before though, and here are seven more eyebrow-raising smartphone marketing tactics we’ve encountered in years gone by....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alphabet records 26 percent rise in revenues for Q1 2018 June 15, 2025 Google’sparent company,Alphabet, revealed yet another excellent financial report, this time for the first quarter of 2018. For that time period, it recorded revenues of $31.146 billion, up 26 percent from the $24.750 billion in revenue it recorded from the same quarter in 2017. Alphabet also had a net income amount of $9....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. AMD GPU guide: All AMD GPUs explained, and the best AMD GPU for you June 25, 2025 AMD has been making processors since 1969 and has been making CPUs since then. However, its journey with GPU has been different. AMD entered the GPU market with its acquisition of ATI in 2006. Prior to that, ATI had been in the GPU business independently since 1985....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Arm Mali-G76 GPU deep dive June 04, 2025 In the pursuit of ever greater graphics performance, Arm made some significant changes with the third entry in the high-performance tier of its Bifrost architecture, the Mali-G76. A number of these important tweaks already made their way to the mid-tierMali-G52, but the G76 aims to push performance up by another 50 percent in just a single iteration....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Check your bills: AT&T sued over hidden $2 monthly fee August 09, 2025 AT&Thas courted controversy in recent months over itsfake 5Gbranding, but it looks like the U.S. carrier has been hit by another scandal. This time, the carrier has been slapped with a lawsuit over a hidden monthly fee. “AT&T covertly increases the actual price by padding all post-paid wireless customers’ bills each month with a bogus so-called ‘administrative fee’ (currently $1....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Chrome celebrates 10 years with great new features in version 69, out now June 12, 2025 It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten whole years, but theGoogle Chrome browserlaunched on August 08, 2025. Since then, Chrome has becomethe world’s most popular browser, dominating both the desktop and mobile browser markets. In short, it’s been an incredibly successful ten years....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S8 and HTCU11 get faster internet with Sprint firmware update June 06, 2025 ASprintfirmware update to theSamsung Galaxy S8, S8 PlusandHTC U11has brought about a stark data speed improvement, according to a report fromPC Mag. The new firmware is supposed to have provided a “20% speed boost to downloads” on the Galaxy S8 ( 21.9 Mbps to 26.4 Mbps) while a 45% increase (19....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Allo rockets past 5 million downloads June 25, 2025 WhenGoogle Allowent live, it saw a flurry of downloads as users rushed to make the search giant’s new messaging platform their go-to communication app. Indeed, just four days ago it surpassed 1 million downloads. It seems the fervor isn’t dying down, because as of today, Allo is sitting pretty at over 5 million installs....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s the Android 10 Easter Egg and how to see it for yourself July 27, 2025 Google released six beta versions of Android Q without officially updating the Easter Egg. It wasn’t until September 3 when the final version landed that we finally got a look at the Android 10 Easter Egg running on a Pixel device. Instead of moving circles with psychedelic colors, the Android 10 Easter Egg takes you to a page with “Android 10” spelled out....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to enable, use full screen gestures on Xiaomi smartphones July 29, 2025 Swipe gestures seem like the other big trend in the past 12 months (behind thenotchand dropping the headphone jack). This yearXiaomi‘s devices adopted swipe gestures as an alternative to Android’s standard navigation keys. If you’re intrigued by the new navigation method, we’ve got a guide to enable and use gestures on Xiaomi phones....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Informal poll (since removed) shows 90% of Chinese would use Google over Baidu July 15, 2025 Googleis the most popular search engine in the world, with a global market share of a whopping72 percent. But in China, Google isn’t top dog at all – not by a long shot. That’s because Google – for all intents and purposes – isn’t active in China....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nintendo reveals surprise real-life Mario Kart game, plus 3D Mario All-Stars August 03, 2025 To celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of Mario (wow, we’re old), Nintendo pulled out all the stops today announcing some brand new games. The first is absolutely bonkers: a real-life Mario Kart game in which you race remote-controlled cars on custom tracks in your own home....