Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony launches Xperia XZ2 in India, but who can afford it at this price? June 01, 2025 Sonyis releasing a beefed-up version of theSony Xperia XZ2in India next month, according toGadgets360. Judging from the specs, it seems to be a beast of a phone. Too bad it likely won’t sell because of Sony’s asking price for the device. That price is reportedly a whopping 72,990 Rs....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony Xperia Z5 Compact lands in Europe July 24, 2025 DuringIFA 2015earlier this month, Sony unveiled itsXperia Z5 Rangeand slated the Xperia Z5 andXperia Z5 Compactfor release next month (with the 4k-enabledXperia Z5 Premiumlanding in November). Fans of mini smartphones can now rejoice as the Xperia Z5 Compact has launched early and is now available to buy in several countries in Europe....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Square Enix’s Lara Croft GO finally makes its way to the Google Play Store July 08, 2025 Square Enixhas finally released its much-anticipatedLara Croft GOpuzzle adventure game to the Google Play Store. The game is sort of a followup to the popularHitman GO, and features similar gameplay style and mechanics. You play as Lara Croft navigating through the ruins of an ancient civilization, and it’s your job to collect items and solve puzzles on your quest to uncover the myth of the Queen of Venom....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Subway Surfers gets record 1 billion downloads on Google Play Store June 14, 2025 Earlier this week, we published an article about how mobile gaming nowmakes twice as much moneyas console and PC gaming combined. If there were any skepticism about just how big mobile gaming is, we now have another statistic to add to the pile:Subway Surfers, theendless runnermobile game phenomenon, just hitone billion downloadson theGoogle Play Store....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book announced: what you should know about the latest from Microsoft June 14, 2025 Microsoft has just finished up announcing a slew of new mobile products, including thebrand new Lumia 950, 950XL and 550 smartphones. These new Windows-powered devices of course don’t run Android, but we figured it was important to catch you up on the latest flagship handsets from Microsoft, and just how they compare to the Android competition....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The creator of Fenix has made a new RSS reader app called Quote July 28, 2025 The Twitterverse has long held Fenix in high regard for being clean, customizable and feature-packed. The maker of Fenix for Twitter, Matteo Villa (akamvilla), has just released a new RSS reader app for Android called Quote. Quote supports Feedly and Inoreader and it looks every bit as solid as Fenix....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The FBI is urging Olympic athletes to use burner phones. Here’s why. June 28, 2025 The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned against massive cyberattacks during the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. The agency is urging athletes and other participants to leave their personal phones and other devices behind and use burner phones instead to protect themselves against potential cyber threats and data thefts....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Ion Belt - wear your battery pack around your waist June 07, 2025 Smartphones are useful, even necessary, but most of us are haunted by the dreaded charging woes which come with such powerful and portable computing devices. The situation has definitely been improving, but even fast charging is not enough for the street warrior who finds it a nuisance to be continuously tethered to an outlet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Pixel 2 proves we shouldn’t look to Google for hardware innovation June 06, 2025 Let’s not beat around the bush: Google doesn’t really know all that much about making phones. This is why it historically shipped out Nexus contracts to those that do and probably also why it didn’t try to take over HTC’s manufacturing lines in its recentR&D acquisition deal....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The stunning Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha has a 180.6% screen-to-body ratio July 16, 2025 Xiaomi thinks the future of smartphones is wraparound displays. The company just announced the Mi Mix Alpha and its screen wraps around its edges and goes to the back, achieving a screen-to-body ratio of 180.6%. Of course, this crazy-high number is achieved by some creative interpretation of what the screen-to-body ratio means....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The very first Samsung phone to ship with Android 10 is pretty familiar August 20, 2025 Samsungis in the middle of rolling out stable versions ofAndroid 10to a few of its flagships, most notably theGalaxy S10andGalaxy Note 10families. However, there is now a device that holds the distinction of being the first Samsung smartphone to ship with Android 10 out-of-the-box: theSamsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G on T-Mobile....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This could be our first glimpse of ‘Nocturne,’ Google’s 2-in-1 Pixelbook tablet July 04, 2025 Images ofGoogle’s rumored 2-in-1 Chrome OS tablet and keyboard may have leaked online ahead of its anticipated October 9 launch.AboutChromebookspublished the render yesterday, giving us a potential first glimpse of Google’s first tablet product since the HTC-manufacturedNexus 9(which ran Android) in 2014. The hybrid, apparently codenamed ‘Nocturne,’ includes what looks like a metallic blue finish and a singleUSB Type-C porton the left side (apparently there will be another Type-C port on the other side)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This smartphone has an 18,000mAh battery, looks dangerously heavy August 18, 2025 Energizerhas shown off its new Android device, the Power Max P18K Pop, atMWC 2019. It’s an interesting handset, coming with a triple rear camera, Helio P70 chipset, and 6GB of RAM. Oh, and it’s packing an 18,000mAh battery, too. That’s right, the Power Max P18K Pop’s battery is around five times the size of an average Android phone battery, which means the unit itself is considerably bigger than most other phones....