Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ZTE will unlock your Axon 7 or Axon Pro upon request August 23, 2025 TheAxon 7— the latest in ZTE’s Axon line thatdebuted last year— has garnered high praise and comparisons to many of this year’s top-of-the-line flagships. After announcing this morning that U.S. models of the Axon 7 (as well as the Axon Pro) are eligible for bootloader unlocking, ZTE has made an already great device even more appealing than before....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. (Update: available now!) Monument Valley players can get Ida’s Dream DLC for free on June 25 August 20, 2025 Update (6/25):Ida’s Dream is now available! To get the new level, simply head to the Google Play Store and there should be an update to Monument Valley waiting for you. Be sure to let us know how you like the new chapter in the comment section below....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Auto coming to select 2016 GMC and Buick models August 05, 2025 WhileAndroid Autowas actually announced backat Google I/O 2014,it has taken vehicle manufacturers a long time to get compatible equipment into their vehicles. One of the first companies to get out a working Android Auto model was Hyundai with the 2015 Sonata, a vehicle which we had the opportunity to get a better look at inour full review of the Android Auto platform....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android in-app purchases – what you need to know July 15, 2025 For a while now, digital stores that offer mobile applications for various platforms have introduced a new way for developers to make money and customers to enjoy extra content –in-app purchases. But in-app purchases aren’t always hassle-free and if you don’t pay extra attention to what you’re doing, you will probablynotenjoy the extra purchased content....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple will use LG for some iPhone OLEDs, limiting reliance on Samsung June 05, 2025 Apple andSamsungmay be bitter rivals in the smartphone world (even if they did recentlycall a truce), but that doesn’t stop the companies from working together to create products. For example, the iPhone X’s OLED screen is created solely by Samsung. The expense of that OLED is one of the reasons why theiPhone Xstarts at a whopping $1,000....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. BlueStacks will let developers publish their mobile games on Steam (no port needed) June 25, 2025 BlueStacksis the emulator of choice for people wanting to run Android games and apps on PC. The team behind the emulator has delivered plenty of features with itslast update, but its latest initiative promises to bring loads of games toSteam. The company announced BlueStacks Inside today, which is a “one-click SDK” for developers to quickly publish their mobile games on PC storefronts (e....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Confirmed: The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra is a nightmare to repair August 04, 2025 Flagship smartphones have been tough to repair for years now, owing to water resistance requirements and a general aversion towards DIY repairs. Unfortunately, it looks like theSamsung Galaxy S20 Ultracontinues this trend. Repair companyiFixithas disassembled the top-end Samsung flagship, giving the phone a repairability score of three out of 10....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. CyanogenMod 13 Nightlies land for the Zenfone 2, SHIELD Portable, and carrier branded Galaxy S3s July 02, 2025 CyanogenMod developers are still busy working away on Android 6.0 ports for a number of old and modern devices. Recently,CyanogenMod 13nightly builds have appeared for TheASUS Zenfone 2,NVIDIA’s SHIELD Portable, and a number of carrier brandedSamsung Galaxy S3models. Starting with the Zenfone 2, a number of the handset’s variants now appear to have nightly builds available or on the way....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Dead Effect 2 released to the Play Store August 05, 2025 Dead Effect 2 is a game that aims to “push the boundaries of mobile gaming to another level,” promising console-levels of quality in terms of action, story, and RPG elements. The game placed second at theVery Big Indie Pitchcontest in 2015, and it is now available for download in the Google Play Store....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Did Xiaomi pull a fast one with POCO F2 Pro pricing? August 19, 2025 ThePOCO F2 Promarks the return of the POCO name to the flagship segment, with the Xiaomi-backed brand delivering a moreaffordable flagshipphone. Xiaomi said the POCO F2 Pro will retail for €499 (~$559) in Europe, but it looks like the company may have been less than forthcoming about actual pricing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. EE UK network review: Everything you need to know (July 2019) August 22, 2025 EEis technically the U.K.’s youngest network, formed in the merger of Orange U.K. and T-Mobile U.K. in 2010. First the company was called Everything Everywhere, but in August 2012 the company announced the EE brand would offer 4G in the U.K. and Everything Everywhere would become the legal entity and parent company of all three brands....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Factory Reset Protection on Samsung devices can be bypassed in just a few minutes June 25, 2025 InAndroid 5.0 Lollipop, Google introduced a security feature calledFactory Reset Protectionto help folks keep their data safe. It works like this: if FRP is turned on and your Android device is reset from the recovery menu, the Android device will require you to re-enter the primary Google account information that was last on the device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fitbit’s upcoming smartwatch leaks out, doesn’t look very sexy July 18, 2025 A few days ago, a report posted by Yahoo Finance claimed that hardware issues withFitbit’supcoming, and so far unannounced, smartwatch had forced the company to delay its launch from the spring tosometime in the fall of 2017. Now the same source has posted what it claims is the first official render of that device, and it’s a design that reportedly some of Fitbit’s own team members don’t like....