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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Motorola just did the only thing worse than slowly issuing Android updates June 09, 2025 Typically, you make promises if you intend to follow through on them. Motorola apparentlydidn’t get that memo, since the company announced today onLenovo’s forumssomeMoto Z2 Forcemodels will not getAndroid 9 Pie. The unlucky models include those sold byT-Mobile,AT&T, andSprint. TheVerizonmodel will get Pie, but only to ensure compatibility with the5G Moto Mod....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Movavi makes it easy to edit videos on your phone and computer Jul 06, 2025 Smartphones these days rival and sometimes outperform consumer-level cameras when it comes to video quality. But after you capture a memory, you typically have to transfer files over to your computer and edit them there if you want a professional-looking movie or slideshow. That’s no longer an issue thanks to the Movavi Clips video editor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Move Loot reaches Android: easily buy, sell and discover furniture July 23, 2025 Trying to find a good way to trade your used furniture? Whether you are looking to buy or sell, one of the best solutions out there is Move Loot, a new application/service designed to take the weight off your shoulders and make selling or buying furniture a breeze....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus Nord 2 Pac-Man Edition teased with glowing colorway, ‘gamified’ OS June 02, 2025 OnePlushas launched many special edition products in its lifetime, from partnerships with Cyberpunk 2077 to Harry Potter, Marvel, and McLaren. Now, the company has officiallyrevealeda new Pac-Man-themedOnePlus Nord 2. Officially dubbed the OnePlus Nord 2 Pac-Man Edition, the company promises that the phone will provide users with a “new gamified” experience, especially fans of the Bandai Namco property....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OPPO adds an Apple AirPods competitor into the ring with O-Free August 12, 2025 When Apple announced its AirPods wireless headphones, the design was met with derision from the general populace. But now, here we are, withmultiple companiesreleasing their answer to the funky, completely wireless ear inserts. We can now addOppoto that list, as the company is releasing the OPPO O-Free headphones in China this coming August, perThe Verge....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Reader’s Choice Smartphone of the Year - Vote & Win! June 20, 2025 What a year 2015 has been; from a multitude of smartphones at just about every price point imaginable to advancements in wearables, tablets (includingTVs masquerading as tablets) and even cars. Mobile is everywhere, and you all have your favourite handset of the year, but which handset stands tall above them all?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Exynos 880 revealed: The chip to bring 5G to the masses? July 23, 2025 Samsung already has two in-house 5G chipsets in theExynos 980andExynos 990, but it’s adding a third to its stable with the newly announcedExynos 880. The new chipset shares an awful lot in common with the Exynos 980, from the CPU layout (2x Cortex-A77 and 6x Cortex-A55) and Mali-G76 MP5 GPU to the 8nm design and integrated NPU for machine learning....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s appeal against Apple damages will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court after all August 05, 2025 The ongoing Samsung vs Apple soap opera has entered yet another phase. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Samsung’s appeal case against the$548 million in damagesit paid to Apple late last year. Part of that settlement included the option for Samsung to reclaim some or all of that money, pending appeals....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s new ad promoted low-budget YouTube creators during the big-budget Oscars June 27, 2025 Samsung has promoted itself during the broadcast of the Academy Awards before. For this year’s show, however, it took a different tack. Instead of helping to promote big Hollywood movie making, it put the spotlight on YouTube creators who have a massive audience, but who only have a smartphone and tiny budgets to capture their videos....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The best (and worst) of the weird tech we saw at CES 2020 August 09, 2025 The Consumer Electronics Show, better known asCES, is the largest of its kind in the world. Thousands of companies descend upon Las Vegas to show off their latest creations. The law of averages state that if you get that many tech companies together, there’s definitely going to be some weird tech to see....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The iPhone SE is the highlight of a grim US smartphone market July 10, 2025 If you suspected that COVID-19 wouldseriously hurt US smartphone sales, you guessed correctly — although there are a few exceptions to the rule.Counterpoint Researchestimates that US smartphone sales declined 25% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2020 as the pandemic took hold, but it’s now clear that some phone makers fared better than others....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Trump administration will let ZTE reopen in exchange of fine and security guarantees August 13, 2025 President Donald Trump announced plans to lift theseven-year sales banthat crippledZTE, forcing it tocease major operations earlier this month. It’s the latest twist in a saga of geopolitics and high technology that has its roots in ZTE’s violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran back in 2010....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: Phone usage is way up during the COVID-19 lockdown August 03, 2025 Now that we’re all stuck at home (well, most of us), many of us need to be creative about what we do with our spare time.Watching new movies,taking up a new hobby, orexercisingare all good ways to pass the time, but what about the old default of scrolling through social media?...