Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Final Fantasy IX arrives to Google Play June 15, 2025 Square Enix has been chugging through its Final Fantasy back-catalogue pretty quickly over the last few years, and while it still hasn’t brought us the much-anticipated mobile port ofFinal Fantasy VII, today Square brings us the very first Playstation Final Fantasy port,Final Fantasy IX.(For the record, Tactics was also a PS game, but the port was based off the PSP version....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 4 wins DisplayMate’s color accuracy shootout July 16, 2025 Wealready knewthat the SamsungGalaxy Note 4’s display was good, but according toDisplayMate, which is seriously picky when it comes to display technology, the Note 4 has the most accurate mobile display available on the market right now. DisplayMate has put six of the leading portable device displays through a series of color accuracy tests to determine which offers the most true to life look....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 7 reportedly still being used more than LG V20, HTCBolt and OnePlus 3T June 27, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy Note 7may have been recalled, but the explosive smartphone still has plenty of users out there, at least according to mobile research firm Apteligent. In the firm’s “2016 Mobile Year in Review” report, it claims that global use of Samsung’s phone is still higher than many high profile phones that have been recently launched....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 9 beta firmware suggests Verizon phone, Samsung 5G ‘Bolt’ August 10, 2025 Over atXDA Developers, the team did a teardown of the latestOne UI Android 9 Pie betafor theSamsung Galaxy Note 9. Within the firmware, they found something peculiar: a reference to an as-yet-unknown Samsung 5G smartphone. The firmware refers to a smartphone with the codename “bolt5gvzw.” The “5G” aspect of the codename is relatively easy to figure out, as is the final three letters, “VZW,” which referenceVerizon Wireless....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Assistant might be coming to Chrome OS August 08, 2025 NativeGoogle Assistantintegration will soon head toChrome OSand Chromebooks other than thePixelbook. This latest news comes fromXDA Developers, which found a merged commit in the Chromium Gerrit project that lays the groundwork for a future update. With this update, Assistant will be disabled by default. When enabled, there will be an additional setting that will allow or prevent Chromebooks from listening for the “OK Google” or “Hey, Google” hotword....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Home Max may launch on December 11, if Best Buy is right June 18, 2025 TheGoogle Home Maxconnected speaker was first announced in early October, but so far the company has been silent when it comes to a specific release date for its latest hardware product. Best Buy isn’t being as quiet about the release date however. Earlier today, the Google Home Max listing showed a release date of December 11....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Photos now saves your original photo inside the edited version: no more duplicates June 14, 2025 TheGoogle Photosupdate to v1.17 on Android automatically saves a copy of your original photo, even if you’ve edited and saved it, without duplicating it. This means that no matter what you do to your image, including excessive cropping or going crazy with filters, you can always get the original image back, just as it was the day you took it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Hands-on: ASUS ZenFone 5Z is powered by the Snapdragon 845, priced below $500 August 08, 2025 AtMWC 2018ASUS unveiled the new ZenFone 5 series. Only theZenFone 5 and ZenFone 5 Litewere formally shown off, but ASUS announced a third model in the works as well. The ASUS ZenFone 5Z sits at the very top of the product line, offering high-end specs (mostly) worthy of a true flagship device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here are some Google Assistant updates coming to Google hardware August 02, 2025 The long-awaitedGoogle hardware eventtook place on Tuesday, but we’re still unpacking a lot of the updates and announcements from the company. Today,Google published a laundry listof all the variousGoogle Assistantupdates coming to various pieces of Google hardware. To be clear, a lot of these Google Assistant updates will hit Google-branded devices first, especially theGoogle Pixel 3andGoogle Home Hub....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s how to unlock your O2 UK phone June 19, 2025 There are a lot of benefits to buying a phone directly from anetwork carrier, including the option of monthly payment plans and a variety of perks the network may offer. On the flip side, having a device locked to only one network can cause its fair share of headaches as well....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s why you can’t buy the Google Pixel 6 in India June 30, 2025 It wouldn’t be unfair to call theGoogle Pixel 6 seriesone of the hottest smartphone launches this year — and it’s no surprise, these are the real deal. Signaling Google’s seriousness in finally building a flagship-class product, the phone is opting forhomegrown Tensor siliconto break through Qualcomm’s monopoly and offer five years of security support....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR 10 vs OnePlus 6 vs the competition: Affordable flagships vs the best of the best August 02, 2025 It used to be you had to spend a fortune to get a good smartphone. Over the years, however, that wallet-drying requirement fell to the wayside as brands like HONOR and OnePlus produced excellent smartphones without exorbitant price tags. Their latest devices, theHONOR 10andOnePlus 6, continue that trend of “affordable flagships,” but how do they compete against the higher-priced competition?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR joins the ‘flagship killer’ fray with the US-bound HONOR 8 August 22, 2025 It used to be easier to pick out a premium smartphone. After all, each year only saw the big dogs like Samsung, Apple, HTC, and LG dropping their latest and greatest on the market. Now, however, we’re starting to see diminishing returns on investing in absolute top-shelf specs, and the HONOR 8 is here to prove you don’t have to drop $700 to $900 on a smartphone to avoid compromising on performance....