Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. US reputation survey: Samsung plummets to #49 due to Note 7 fiasco Jul 13, 2025 Samsung’s reputation among US consumers has taken a beating in the last year. According to the Harris Poll Reputation Quotient survey,Samsungranked 49th among the top 100 companies, which is a very bad result. The tech giant’s reputation quotient dropped by 46 positions when compared to its best result a couple of years ago....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What’s new in OnePlus 5T with the Android Oreo update July 27, 2025 Launched last year,OnePlus 5Tis a solid, well-rounded smartphone that packs in top-of-the-line specifications in a well-built chassis. The OnePlus 5T though shipped with OxygenOS 4.7.6 based on Android 7.1 Nougat out of the box. But recently, the company shipped OxygenOS 5.0.3 based on Android 8.0 Oreo via an OTA update and quickly followed it up with the Android 8....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi is launching five new products in time for the holidays July 13, 2025 Even though Xiaomi is one of thelargest phone manufacturers in the world, many people still aren’t familiar with them. Furthermore, of the people who know the name, many don’t know just how vast its product catalog is. The company makes hundreds, if not thousands of products....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi is the undisputed leader in Q1 2019 online sales for India June 26, 2025 The rise ofXiaomiin India has been nothing short of extraordinary. Ever since the companyovertook Samsungin the country as the top smartphone manufacturer, it seems it simply can’t stop winning. As proof of this, some new numbers fromCounterpoint Researchgive us an idea of how major manufacturers in India fare when it comes to online sales....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You are just 3.5 Facebook friends away from anyone else July 03, 2025 The longstanding figure regarding degrees of separation has been six. This has been popularized by the game-slash-social-media-phenomenon Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, a concept that attests that no actor currently working in Hollywood is more than six associative steps from prolific actor Kevin Bacon. However, the internet is making the world smaller these days....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. A new BlackBerry-branded Android tablet could be in the works June 07, 2025 BlackBerry is still trying to reinvent itself as a software company, but it is allowing its name to be used on Android hardware devices made by others like theDTEK 50, theDTEK 60, and the upcomingKEYone. Now the CEO of BlackBerry, John Chen, has hinted strongly that we could see the company’s name on an Android-based tablet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. After 19 related deaths in India, Mumbai bans selfies in key areas Aug 22, 2025 An interesting craze is catching like wildfire among the India’s youth. It’s not quite as puzzling as the “planking” fad that swept through the western world in 2011, but it is proving to be just as unexpectedly dangerous. Since 2014, at least49 deaths have been linked to selfies, but a disproportionate 19 of these deaths have occurred in India, where a trend the press is calling “Selfie Fever” is running rampant....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Q Files app gets much-needed overhaul July 31, 2025 OnAndroid 9 Pie, the default Files app isn’t much to behold. It does the job it needs to do — allowing you to access files on your internal storage and microSD card — but it doesn’t look too pretty and it’s missing some key functionality. Quite possibly the most perplexing thing about the history of the Files app is that for a long time it didn’t even have a launcher icon when you opened the app drawer....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ARM unveils new Cortex-A75, A55 and Mali-G72 components August 11, 2025 Today,ARMhas lifted the lid on three new products that are dead certain to be heading to next generation mobile devices. The company has unveiled two new CPU designs, the high performance Cortex-A75 and energy efficiency Cortex-A55, alongside a more efficient Mali-G72 GPU. These new components are the successors to ARM’s existing Cortex-A73 and A-53 CPUs, and its high-end Mali-G71 GPU that are found inside a wide selection of today’s mobile devices....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ASUS says it’s cutting the bloat and boosting the speed with ZenUI 4.0 June 14, 2025 Alongside thesix new Zenfone 4 smartphonesthatAsuslaunched during its event in Taiwan, the company also announced ZenUI 4.0, its latest Android skin that will make its debut in the Zenfone 4 series. Previous ZenUI versions were known for their bloatware, and though it did not generally affect a phone’s performance, it’s not as if we were thrilled to see so much of it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. CES 2020: Panasonic announces swath of new headphones July 10, 2025 It’sCESand you know what that means — a whole bunch of companies are announcing a whole bunch of products all at once. Panasonic is getting in on the action, today announcing a swath of new headphones aimed at a variety of uses. Starting with the most notable, the company unveiled three new pairs of true wireless earbuds, the RZ-S500W and RZ-S300W, as well as the EAH-AZ70W under its Technics sub-brand....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook Messenger Lite is finally getting video chat July 16, 2025 Designed for low-end phones with minimal storage and slower internet connections,Messenger Litenow includes video chat functionality, after an update today. The app might not be as “lite” as initially intended anymore, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. The video chat function works similarly to other messaging apps....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fus Ro What? Skyrim Very Special Edition for Amazon Alexa is somehow real August 07, 2025 Bethesda rocked up to the E3 2018 gaming expo last night and proceeded to unleash a barrage of long-awaited reveals and surprise announcements. Yet, nestled among demos of Fallout 76, our first look at anew Elder Scrolls RPG for mobile, and confirmation that Elder Scrolls 6 will exist one day, you might have missed what was by far the strangest of the bunch: Skyrim forAmazon Alexa....