Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Could Chrome OS ever become a dominant force in the PC industry? July 24, 2025 This week we’ve seen a number of Chrome-related announcements includingnew Chromebooks,the Chromebit, a revampedGoogle Now-style UI, and a Google tool thatmakes it easier to test out Android apps on Chrome OS.It’s pretty obvious that Google has big ambitions forChrome OS,and 2015 might be the biggest year for the platform yet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Doze Mode and app permissions may soon come to Android Wear devices June 23, 2025 Google just recentlyannounced a big updateto theAndroid Wearplatform that would bring a number of useful features to all current Wear watches. Among those changes are official speaker support for placing and receiving calls on your wrist, as well as a handful of new gestures that should come in handy....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Exclusive: Retail box confirms key HTCDesire 12 specs July 04, 2025 Update (03/20): The HTCDesire 12 is now official—get all the details here. Last week, we talked about howHTCmight be releasing a new phone inthe Desire series, and it was rumored to go by the moniker HTCDesire 12. We can now 100% confirm that is true. What’s more, we can confirm the specs for the device as listed on the retail box for the upcoming entry-level smartphone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Assistant will be available on 1 billion devices by the end of January June 08, 2025 It wasn’t long ago that theGoogle Assistantwas aPixel-exclusive feature. Now, Google expects it to be installed on 1 billion devices by the end of January 2019 — up from 500 million last May. It all started back inMarch 2017, when Google announced it would bring the Assistant to all Android phones running Marshmallow or Nougat....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel 4 Canadian price leaks, is higher than Pixel 3 launch price June 18, 2025 Thought you’d heard all there was to hear about thePixel 4leaks? Well, guess again, as device pricing has apparently surfaced online. Prolific tipster Evan Blasspostedalleged Canadian pricing for the various Google Pixel 4 devices on Twitter. According to Blass, the 64GB Pixel 4 will retail for CA$1049....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Play raises app price limits to $400, similar increases globally June 01, 2025 For the most part,Google Playapps are all priced along the same range – free, free with in-apps, or somewhere in the $.99 to $5 range. There are some obvious exceptions, withSquareand several others often charging $15 or more for games, there are also textbook apps and other more professional tools that can cost much more than this....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google steals senior Mac OS engineer from Apple to work on Fuchsia OS July 26, 2025 Earlier this week, senior Mac OS engineer Bill Stevenson posteda status update on his LinkedIn profile(uncovered by9to5Google) describing how he has left his 14-year stint at Apple to move to Google to work on the upcomingFuchsia OS. While many Android engineers have beenmoved to the Fuchsia project, this is the first person we know about who has moved to the project fromApple....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Hands on with the Lenovo Vibe Shot August 16, 2025 Lenovo introduced a couple of new smartphones and tablets at MWC 2015 yesterday, all offering something beyond what, from the outside, looks like fairly standard packaging. While the others focus on the audio experience with Dolby ATMOS on-board, the Lenovo Vibe Shot, as the name suggests, moves the emphasis to the camera experience it offers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC denies rumors it’s looking to sell its smartphone business June 02, 2025 It’s no secret that HTChas been struggling in the past few years. Its flagship deviceHTC 10and other smartphones the company has to offer haven’t been selling very well. Low sales numbers have pushed HTCinto financial trouble, asthe company posted a $63 million operating loss in the third quarter, the latest in a long series of losses....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC U11 review June 10, 2025 What we like What we don’t like Our scores There’s no denyingHTChas had a rough go of it in the extremely competitive flagship space, and the company needs a hit on their hands to make a comeback. Now, with its latest high-end offering, HTChas gone a completely different route from what we saw with the 2016 flagship, theHTC 10....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI Porsche Design Mate RS may launch with P20 and P20 Pro tomorrow July 08, 2025 HUAWEI is set to unveil a new Porsche Design handset, potentially called the Porsche Design Mate RS, at its upcoming Paris smartphone launch event. Promo materials (above) featuring the name were spotted byGadgetMatchat the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées where HUAWEI will unveil theHUAWEI P20 and P20 Protomorrow....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Korean handset manufacturer Pantech heads towards liquidation August 10, 2025 It’s no secret that South Korean smartphone manufacturerPantechhas been struggling for finances, but the company is now facing the very real prospect of going out of business. Pantech has been up for sale since 2011, but has failed to find a buyer and has now asked the Seoul Central District Court to end its receivership....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG G5 may have a metal unibody design July 03, 2025 Assuming Samsung had not sprung for the metal and glassGalaxy S6design language, it’s likely that critics ofLG’s G4would have found much less to complain about. In the end, what the company did produce was a refinement of its G3 from last year, and – in part – attention was paid to the fact thatthisyear’s offering still supplied a user replaceable battery and included microSD support....