Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Artificial intelligence takes to the skies with Project Loon July 08, 2025 Google’srather wacky soundingProject Looncontinues to evolve, and has recently received a tune up to its navigation technology. The X Lab team behind the project has revealed that it is making use ofartificial intelligencetechnology, or machine learning to be more specific, to help keep the balloons in the air for longer....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best Buy cancels Galaxy Fold pre-orders, throws shade (Update: Samsung statement) August 07, 2025 Update, July 30, 2025 (11:13 AM ET):Samsung got back to us regarding the news below pertaining to Best Buy canceling pre-orders for the Galaxy Fold. Here is the statement: Unfortunately, the statement does not give us any new details on when we will actually see the Fold or even when Samsung will announce the new release date....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. BLU vivo Air Review August 09, 2025 [ooyala code=”9obmNtdjqu9O5Y7QiumxJElMe__sk-Ym” player_id=”7f2b2d0412e84a188ede8d648751dc42″ width=”500″ height=”400″ auto=”false”] BLU may not be the most well-known of Android OEMs, but the Florida-based phone manufacturer has been continuing to add to an impressive portfolio of high-quality but affordable smartphones over the past few years. BLU took the wraps off severalnew smartphones at CES 2015earlier this month, and today, we’ll be taking a closer look at one of these....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. CNN puts the kibosh on Beme as Casey Neistat leaves the company August 13, 2025 In late 2016,CNNtook a chance on popular YouTube video creator Casey Neistat and purchased Beme, a video-sharing app Neistat co-created with Matt Hackett. It wasreleased to Android in May 2016, but very few people actually used it. That didn’t stopCNNfrom acquiring Beme for awhopping $25 million in November 2016....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Confirmed: The Redmi 9A, Redmi 9C are real, and coming very soon June 19, 2025 ARedmi 9 series leakearlier this month noted that three phones in the family were coming. More specifically, the leak pointed to the Redmi 9, Redmi 9A, and the Redmi 9C. The Redmi 9 has already launched in China and Europe, which just leaves the Redmi 9A and Redmi 9C....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cross-platform mobile development — challenges, options, and why you should consider it August 04, 2025 So, you have a great idea for a game or an app that you think could be a massive hit, perhaps make an impact on the industry, and possibly make you rich. You have the coding skills and you have the team and resources. Now all that’s left is to choose the platform you want to target....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Deal: From high-end to budget, check out these discounted Chromebooks on Amazon June 15, 2025 Google’sChromebookfamily may have had a slow start, but it’s gradually become a worthy alternative to Windows machines. If you’re like me and contemplating a ChromeOS laptop, then you might want to check out these Amazon Daily Deals. The online retailer has three discounted Chromebooks listed in its Daily Deal section today....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Everything new in the sixth Android Q developer preview August 19, 2025 Thesixth Android Q developer previewis here! Thefirstandseconddeveloper previews may not have brought a ton of user-facing changes, but that certainly wasn’t the case forAndroid Q beta 3. A system-wide dark mode, a new gesture navigation system, and much more were added to the third Android Q preview. Thefourth betabuild was much more about refining Android Q....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. FES e-ink watch is actually a Sony project August 12, 2025 Those who spotted our coverage of the e-paper watch thatSonywassaid to be working onwill remember mention of asimilar flexible watch project named FES e-ink. It turns out that the two are one and the same. The FES e-ink watch is Sony’s secretive flexible watch project. A spokesperson from Sony confirmed that the company is working on a project namedFashion Entertainments, which is researching potential electronic paper, or e-inks, applications for fashion products....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. First screenshots released from Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy game July 06, 2025 Telltale Games revealed a few months ago that its long-awaited episodic Marvel Comics gamewould be based on Guardians of the Galaxy. Today, the developer released the first screenshots of that game, showing the look of the diverse cast of characters. The screenshots show that the game will definitely be based on the team’s current comic book incarnation, rather than the 2015 Marvel Studios movie, or its upcoming sequel....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Flutter UI Toolkit: Creating a cross-platform, infinite scrolling ListView August 10, 2025 Whenever you create a mobile app, you want that app to be compatible with as many different devices as possible. For Android, this means designing for devices with a range of hardware, software and screen configurations, but if you want your app to reach the largest possible audience, then you’ll need to move beyond Android, and make your app available on other mobile platforms....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google can now understand language with 95% accuracy August 14, 2025 Mary Meeker’s yearly Internet Trends Report can tell us plenty of what’s going on in the interwebs. Smartphone growth is slowing down, live TV is dying, internet usage is booming in India, and Netflix is all the hype. That is all to be expected, but there is one piece of information that really impressed us....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Help Team AA! How do you use your phone? July 09, 2025 As we approach the end of the year, we’re hard at work behind the scenes, preparing for some major changes coming to Android Authority reviews in the new year. As part of this, we’re making changes to the way we test devices and how we calculate our review scores – but Android Authority needsYOURhelp!...