Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What about 9G? T-Mobile ridicules AT&T for using fake 5G logo on 4G phones June 01, 2025 AT&T has come under fire after it emerged that it was updating several phones to use a “5G E” logo in lieu of “4G.” The problem is that these phones (including the Galaxy S8 Active,LG V30, andLG V40) aren’t actually connecting to5Gnetworks, making the carrier’s icon misleading....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Why did Samsung just buy a cloud computing company? July 22, 2025 Samsung is acquiring Joyent, a US company that provides cloud services and infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and based in San Francisco, Joyent is known for its Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service products, as well as the widely used node.js framework and other open source software. Joyent provides cloud services to customers ranging from tiny startups to Fortune 500 corporations, competing against giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Wireless charging, environmental disaster? Plus more tech news today July 02, 2025 1. The wireless charging conundrum There’s been a little bit of a stir around wireless charging recently. OneZero, in a collab with iFixit, kicked things off with a piece looking at exactly how inefficient wireless chargers are. And it’s a problem: So, what does it all mean?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi accidentally uses Apple ads to promote its latest Apple clone product July 11, 2025 As first spotted by a pair of sites (CX LiveandDaring Fireball, viaMacRumors), Xiaomi uploaded an Apple ad to its own website — as well as several others — to promote its new Mimoji, which are eerily similar to Apple’s similarly-named Memoji. Xiaomi claims that the uploading of a competitor’s ad to promote its own product was an accident....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi packs 50MP camera, 90Hz screen, and a big battery in latest budget phone August 03, 2025 Xiaomilaunched theRedmi 10globally just a while back and it has now followed up with a slightly tweaked version of the budget phone in the form of the Redmi 10 Prime. The new Redmi has launched in the Indian market, carrying almost all the same specs as its global cousin....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. YouTube picture-in-picture mode rolling out for free users in US June 14, 2025 Picture-in-picture modedebuted as one ofAndroid Oreo’s headline features last year. As great as the feature was, however, it was strange to see uninterrupted video support on Android phones and tablets across many video platforms with one major exception: Google’s own YouTube. Of course, that wasn’t the case for those willing to pay for subscription services likeYouTube Premium, but now it seems picture-in-picture (PiP) mode is rolling out to non-premium YouTube users in the U....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ZTE to be first phone maker to win the 4K race with Star 3? July 20, 2025 While there are a number of rumors suggesting that theSamsung Galaxy Note 5may be among the first smartphones tobreak the QHD barrier, a new rumor out of China suggests that ZTE might be the very first player to embraced a higher-than-QHD resolution for the upcoming Star 3....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. (Update: now out of beta) Meerkat beats Twitter’s Periscope to Google Play, now available for all to download June 26, 2025 Update, May 15: Meerkat for Android is out of beta. Check it out in thePlay Store. Original post, May 1: The official Meerkat (beta) application has finally made its way to the Play Store, letting Android users from all over the world stream live video directly to Twitter....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 10 Apps all new Android owners should have (video) June 10, 2025 So you’ve got a new Android device! Congratulations, and welcome to the Android world! Now you need some good apps to put on that bad boy, and we’ve got a list of the 10 ten best apps you should be installing on your Android device first. As per the norm, if you’d rather watch the video just head to the bottom of the article....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alcatel Idol 4s review June 08, 2025 Alcatel Idol 4s What we like What we don’t like Our scores Alcatel made some noise last year with the release of the OneTouch Idol 3 as an affordable and attractive package that caught the eye of consumers. The OneTouch Idol 3 was very much a budget-friendly mid-range smartphone, but while its Alcatel may have dropped the OneTouch branding with its successor, the Idol 4S improves on it by offering better specs at an equally affordable price tag....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. All the big iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 announcements and how they compare to Android June 30, 2025 Apple today announced iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, updates to its core operating system that provide iPhone and iPad owners with even more control over their information and privacy. Here’s an overview of all the new features and how they compare to features in Android....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alleged Xiaomi Mi 5 render leaked, shows physical home button June 27, 2025 An alleged render of theXiaomi Mi 5smartphone has been leaked online. The leaked image shows us the front side of Xiaomi’s upcoming flagship, which reveals a physical home button sitting right below the display of the phone, if the render is indeed accurate. Having a physical home button is of significance, especially since it would make the Mi 5 the firstXiaomidevice to move away from the standard 3 capacitive buttons arrangement....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Instant Apps: what do they mean for users and developers? August 14, 2025 Do you really need to download an app to own it? I’m not being philosophical here (do we truly own anything?) but when you consider how quickly and easily you may download and install something like a flashlight app, it makes you wonder what the advantage tokeepingit on your device actually is....