Gmailify brings key Gmail features to your non-Google email account

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gmailify brings key Gmail features to your non-Google email account August 11, 2025 Today on their officialblog, Gmail announced that they are bringing all the best parts of Gmail to non-Google accounts through the use of a process they’re calling “Gmailify.” Through Gmailification, you can get key features like spam protection and inbox organization on your Yahoo, Outlook, or Hotmail accounts, as well as a slew of others....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 284 words · James Hart

Google Allo: Everything you need to know

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Allo: Everything you need to know July 17, 2025 Google first announced its new messaging app,Allo, at its annual I/O developer conferencea few months ago. With a plethora of security features and Google’s newAssistantin tow, its pretty safe to say Allo is the most anticipated Google app of the year. What makes Allo stand out from the sea of other messaging apps in the Play Store?...

June 5, 2025 · 6 min · 1161 words · Bradley Chambers

HONOR 9 Lite review: four lenses on a budget

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR 9 Lite review: four lenses on a budget July 20, 2025 Honor HONOR 9 Lite What we like What we don’t like Our scores HONOR launched theHONOR 7XandHONOR View 10in December, and just when the two devices started to trickle into stores in various markets across the globe, we saw the company launch another mid-range smartphone, its first in 2018, the HONOR 9 Lite....

June 5, 2025 · 8 min · 1552 words · Dominic Brown

How to insert a SIM card into Galaxy Note 8

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to insert a SIM card into Galaxy Note 8 July 12, 2025 One of the first things you should do when you get yourSamsung Galaxy Note 8is to put in a SIM card in the phone. If you are wondering how that’s done we will tell you how to insert a SIM card into Galaxy Note 8. Although you’re able to play around with the phablet, download and use various apps, and even browse the web with a Wi-Fi connection without a SIM card, you do need it in order to make and receive calls, send texts, and go online via your carrier’s network....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 408 words · Scott Lindsey

In January, Google Play Music will finish absorbing Songza

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. In January, Google Play Music will finish absorbing Songza June 16, 2025 By the end of January, Songza will be shutting down permanently, but there is good news for Songza fans: all of the streaming service’s features have been fully integrated intoGoogle Play Music. Surprise biology lesson!Okay, so you may remember being taught that the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell, right?...

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 317 words · Anthony Carlson

It's been a few weeks, so here's another Facebook security scandal

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. It’s been a few weeks, so here’s another Facebook security scandal July 18, 2025 If you woke up this morning and thought to yourself, “Hey, it’s been a minute since I last heard aboutFacebooksecurity issues affecting millions of users in scary ways,” then have we got some news for you. Turns out, Facebook’s internal servers were storing millions of plain-text, unencrypted user passwords....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 292 words · Chad Anderson

LG V10 officially announced: everything you need to know

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG V10 officially announced: everything you need to know July 09, 2025 Even before the launch of theLG G4back in March,LG began teasinga new “super premium” flagship that would be launched sometimenear the end of 2015. Although details have been pretty scarce up until roughlya few weeks ago, the South Korean company has finally taken the wraps off its newest high-end smartphone, theLG V10....

June 5, 2025 · 11 min · 2298 words · James Salas

Mali-470 to enable smartphone-quality visuals on wearable and IoT devices

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Mali-470 to enable smartphone-quality visuals on wearable and IoT devices July 27, 2025 The Media Processing Group at ARMrecently announced a new highly-efficient graphics processing unit (GPU), the ARM® Mali™-470GPU, to enable smartphone-quality visuals on wearable and IoT devices. A growing market with unique challenges The wearables market has been growing steadily for many years with more and more devices and applications entering the market....

June 5, 2025 · 4 min · 849 words · Jacob Johnson

Microsoft’s Your Phone app is now available... for some users

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft’s Your Phone app is now available… for some users August 09, 2025 Some Windows users in the U.S. have reported that Your Phone, a Microsoft app that promises closer integration between Windows PCs and smartphones, now works on PCs running the Windows 04 July 2025 update (Version 1803). This comes soon after Microsoftreleased the app to Windows Insiders on a recent preview build of Windows 10....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 274 words · Richard Woods

Nearly every detail of the OPPO Find X3 Pro has surfaced in leaked videos

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nearly every detail of the OPPO Find X3 Pro has surfaced in leaked videos June 25, 2025 A leak might have just erased what mystery was left about theOPPO Find X3 Pro’sspecs. Well-known tipster Evan Blasshas sharedtwo leaked promo videos that appear to touch on virtually every major feature of OPPO’s upcoming flagship. The first clip touches on key Find X3 Pro specs in the trappings of a sci-fi movie production....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Antonio Jordan

No surprise here: Galaxy S9 camera sensors sourced from Samsung, Sony

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. No surprise here: Galaxy S9 camera sensors sourced from Samsung, Sony July 19, 2025 When it comes to mobile components,Samsungcertainly has its fingers in plenty of pies. But Samsung’s flagships seem to be so popular that the company has to source components from elsewhere too. This is indeed the case with theGalaxy S9camera sensors. According toTechInsights(viaSamMobile), the S9 and S9 Plus pack either Samsung orSonycamera sensors, in the form of the Sony IMX345 or the S5K2L3....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 245 words · Nicholas Raymond

Nougat's notification system is now a requirement for Android device makers

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Nougat’s notification system is now a requirement for Android device makers July 14, 2025 If you are an Android handset maker, you no longer can mess around with the operating system’s notification features. That is what was discovered in the latest update to Google’s Compatibility Definition Document for Android, with the new requirements made for smartphones that useNougat 7.1.1....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 246 words · Todd Moran

nubia REDMAGIC 3 is a beast of a gaming phone, now available around the world

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. nubia REDMAGIC 3 is a beast of a gaming phone, now available around the world June 01, 2025 Initially announced in Chinaback in April, thenubia REDMAGIC 3is now available in North America, Europe, Australia, and select Asian markets. The REDMAGIC 3 is the successor to last year’s REDMAGIC 2, which is known globally as theREDMAGIC Mars. One of the REDMAGIC 3’s highlight features is its internal “turbo fan,” which nubia says is a first for smartphones....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 386 words · Beth Thompson