Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. POCO sends invites for global launch event (Update: POCO F2 Pro confirmed) June 03, 2025 Update, August 22, 2025 (2AM ET):Xiaomi and its POCO sub-brand have been teasing a May 12 launch event for a while now, believed to be thePOCO F2 Prounveiling. The company even displayed user comments mentioning the POCO F2 in ateaser videoposted late last week....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. POCO X3 NFC announced: A whole lot of phone for €250 August 25, 2025 The POCO brand made a comeback in 2020, as the Xiaomi sub-brand released the POCO X2, POCO F2 Pro, and POCO M2 Pro. All these phones were essentially rebranded Redmi devices though, but the firm has just announced its first seemingly original device in 2020....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. PowerVR GPU designer Imagination Technologies goes up for sale June 08, 2025 Following confirmation thatImagination Technologiesis going to lose its biggest GPU customer – Apple – in the coming year or two, many have wondered what would become of one of the UK’s last legacy semiconductor companies. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Imagination Technology has now put itself up for sale and already says that it has received interest from potential buyers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Prime World: Defenders 2 launched on Android: tower defense with a twist July 31, 2025 The popular tower defense game, Prime World: Defenders has finally seen its sequel launch on Android. Prime World: Defenders 2 picks up where the original left off, packing monsters, runes, spells and battle in a frenzy of TD action. For those that don’t know, Nival game studio’s twist on the familiar tower defense genre is the addition of an in-game collectible card game....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: 2018 premium smartphone market grew 18%, here’s what that could mean June 27, 2025 Venerable market research organizationCounterpointjust published some stats on the premium smartphone market of 2018. According to Counterpoint, the premium smartphone market grew by 18 percent last year as compared to the previous. This is especially notable when you consider that, in the same report, Counterpoint says the overall smartphone market declined by about three percent....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: The Exynos 2200 launch is delayed, but everything is fine July 17, 2025 Samsungwas supposed to hold an Exynos event yesterday,tweetingabout a January 11 event last month. Unfortunately, the day came and went without an event taking place, and Samsung deleted the tweet in question. Does this mean something went wrong with the Exynos 2200 chipset or that the company had a change of heart about using it?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. See season 2: Everything we know about the Apple TV Plus series June 10, 2025 Another one of Apple TV Plus’s flagship series is back. See season 2, the next instalment of the Jason Momoa-starring sci-fi epic about a world gone blind hits the streamer later this month. Despite mixed-to-negative reviews for season 1, See is an odd but compelling show that’s hard to turn away from....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. T-Mobile launches $50 prepaid unlimited plan, but it’s not going to last long July 16, 2025 Yesterday, Verizontweaked its prepaid plansto make them more competitive with competing offerings from other carriers.T-Mobileresponded with a limited-time promotion that offers a$50 prepaid deal. The plan nets customers unlimited talk, text, and 4G LTE data. It also includes unlimited mobile hotspot at 3G speeds, though it caps video streaming on T-Mobile’s network at 480p resolution....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The #phonepocalypse is over, here are the highlights from October launches August 15, 2025 New phones get launched every month of the year, but it looks like the October 2018 smartphones are going to be something else. Not only are we seeing six major launches in the span of only a few weeks, but some of those devices are the most highly anticipated releases of the entire year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The 128GB OnePlus 9 Pro won’t be coming to North America at all August 20, 2025 Since April, theOnePlus 9 Prohas been available in the US, but only in its priciest guise. There were plans to offer the cheaper config, too, but it was reportedly delayed after launch. But now, a new report suggests that this model will not be sold in North America at all....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The BLU vivo 8 packs a big battery and a 16 MP selfie camera June 02, 2025 BLUhas launched yet another of its affordable Android smartphones, the vivo 8. This 5.5-inch phone has a couple of interesting hardware features, including a pretty big battery and a 16 MP front-facing selfie camera. The 4,010 mAh battery in the BLU vivo 8 is supposed to make this phone last up to two days on a single charge....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The budget-focused Nokia 2 is launching soon in the US (Update: Out now at Amazon, Best Buy) June 29, 2025 At the time of writing, the Amazon listing is still showing as unavailable, but this hopefully shouldn’t be the case for too long. Nokia’s resurgence in 2017 has been a fun thing to watch. It has put out several phones this year that are truly compelling....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The importance of gamma July 21, 2025 Gamma is probably the worst-understood specification in displays and imaging. Most peoplehaveheard of it, at least in the context of something called “gamma correction.” But what that actually is and why it’s a good thing are pretty hazy. Gamma is an important factor in getting displayed images to “look right,” and has a major effect on color accuracy and determining the number of bits per pixel needed to make images look smooth and natural....