Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alexa-enabled devices now get free ad-supported Amazon Music July 27, 2025 Amazonannounced todaythatAlexa-enabled devicescan now play ad-supported music from Amazon Music for free. The announcement comes a day after Googleannounced a similar movewith YouTube Music and Google Assistant-powered devices. Keep in mind that folks can only listen to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations for free — they can’t pick and choose songs, artists, or albums....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alphabet sells its robotics company — along with “Big Dog” and “Atlas” — to SoftBank June 24, 2025 Alphabet is selling its Boston Dynamics robotics division to Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank. The news arrived via a press release yesterday, confirming that theGoogleparent company had agreed terms for the Boston Dynamics sale, which it had been trying to offload since March 2016....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. And the iFixit award for the most repairable phone of 2016 goes to… July 12, 2025 iFixit does a lot of tearing down – from smartphones toearbuds. It tells us how easy (or hard) it is to repair a device on your own, which could be extremely useful for the fearless among us. Now, the iFixit team has revealed which smartphone from 2016 was the most fixable and which was the least fixable, and the results aren’t all that surprising....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Flashback - T-Mobile G1 by HTCUnboxing and Initial Setup August 21, 2025 Smartphones and the Android operating system have certainly come a very long way in what can be considered quite a short period of time. Of course, related technologies have also grown at an exponential pace to help us reach where we are at now. High-speed internet access on our mobile devices allows us to comfortably stream and watch HD movies, on displays that boast Quad HD resolutions and screens that may or may not be curved....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android ICS update for Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is now available via Kies August 03, 2025 When we heard a couple of weeks back thatSamsung was planning to update pretty much its entire portfolio of Android tabletsto Ice Cream Sandwich in July and August, we were willing to bet big money that the actual updates will not start until the end of July, at the earliest....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ASUS launches 5.5-in ZenFone 2 and ZenFone Zoom, featuring 3X optical zoom July 30, 2025 So CES is underway and the announcements are coming thick and fast. If you remember back to just before the holidays,ASUS released some teaser videosabout its new flagship device. It teased us with pictures of a phone with some special optics and tagged the videos with the slogan, “See what others can’t see....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Current Nexus devices will not get Android N’s seamless updates July 03, 2025 While some people loathe the idea of updates and the headaches that may come with – or after – installing them, it’s reasonable to assume a fair share of Android fans love getting new builds. Even so, the actual updateprocessitself can command quite a chunk of time due: After the actual file downloads, users then need to reboot the device and watch as it installs....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cyanogen OS vs Android: what’s the difference? July 19, 2025 It may have started as Google’s obligatory answer to the iPhone, but Android has grown into a much-beloved operating system that’s currently used by over107 million people in the U.S. aloneandalmost one-and-a-halfbillionworldwide. Much of what makes Android special also distinguishes it from competitors: its power, versatility, and customizability. But this isn’t a love ode to Google’s popular software....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Did you know: HTCowned Beats before Apple August 09, 2025 With so much competition on the Android market, between stars likeSamsung,OnePlus,Xiaomi, and others, it’s easy to forget aboutHTC. Without releasing a flagship phone since 2018, the Taiwanese brand seems to have vanished from the smartphone scene almost completely. When they do make the news, HTC phones only stand out through theirlack of ambition....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. European Commission targets Google over further antitrust complaints July 28, 2025 These allegations are tumbling out of aprevious antitrust investigationthat kicked off in April of this year. Regulators were concerned that, by bundling their apps with the Android operating system, the company is behaving in an anti-competitive way. Since Android is the most widely used operating system in the world, the argument is that packaging their software with it essentially gives them a de facto monopoly for those services....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. First Samsung phone with in-display fingerprint sensor could get gradient color, 128GB storage July 23, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy P30is said to be the Korean firm’s first phone with an in-display fingerprint sensor. And it looks like more potential details have emerged, courtesy ofSamMobile. According to the outlet, the Galaxy P30 will be available with either 64GB or 128GB of storage....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Go figure: Firefox for Amazon Fire TV can play YouTube videos July 10, 2025 Much has been made of the little spat betweenAmazonandGoogle, butMozillais here to deliver some good news as its Firefox browser is available for download for Amazon’s Fire TV. And guess what? You can play YouTube videos on it! In itsblog post, Mozilla says that, once downloaded, its Firefox browser can play full-screenYouTubevideos on the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google is bringing a portrait mode to Chrome OS for some reason July 10, 2025 Portrait modehas been a fixture on smartphones sinceApplepopularized the feature back in 2016, making its way to virtually every phone under the sun since then. Now,Googlehas decided to offer the feature onChrome OSdevices as well. “Portrait mode is now available on Google Pixel Slate and we are working on bringing it to otherChromebooks,” the company noted in ablog postdetailing new features in Chrome OS 76....