Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android 5.0 Lollipop rolling out to Verizon Galaxy S5 July 02, 2025 When Lollipop first became official, Motorola was pretty muchthe first player out of the gate,even beating out the majority of Nexus devices. Many other OEMs talked a big game too, such as HTCand LG, who promised quite updates to Lollipop. Samsung on the other hand kept quiet about its plans, leading many of us to believe they would once again drag their feet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Assassin’s Creed producer Jade Raymond joins Google as vice president June 04, 2025 Famed game producer and AAA product lead Jade Raymondannounced on Twitter late yesterdaythat she has joinedGoogleas a vice president. It’s highly likely that Raymond is now a part of the mysteriousGoogle gaming division, which will launch some sort of gaming product next week at the2019 Game Developers Conference....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. BlackBerry bringing QWERTY back to the mainstream with cheaper Key2 Lite? August 11, 2025 TheBlackBerry Key2looks like it might be getting a little sibling. Thanks to a fresh leak fromEvan Blass, we have our first few details about the BlackBerry Key2 Lite and a real-life photo of the handset. We expect the Key2 Lite to be a mid-to-low tier device, though it looks like it may have a very similar design as the standard BlackBerry Key2 and be around the same size....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Case designs give us a full view of the OnePlus 6 June 09, 2025 As of now, we only have two official images of theOnePlus 6: the onegiven toThe Vergeby Carl Pei himself and the onetweeted out yesterdayby the official OnePlus Twitter account. In both photos, we don’t get a full look at the device. But we do have something close to an official image viasmartphone case-maker Olixar....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. DOOGEE Mix review - the $200 bezel-less smartphone July 13, 2025 Doogee Mix What we like What we don’t like Our scores 2017 has been a year full of new designs. Ever since the Mi Mix burst onto the scene at the end of 2016, manufacturers have been rushing to create a unique experience capable of tempting buyers from their current device and into a new, futuristic phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. First Android Studio 3.0 preview offers faster build speeds, better diagnostics June 12, 2025 Googlehas announced the first Android Studio 3.0 preview build via its Android Developers blog. The new version arrives with more than 20 improvements, but Google has put the focus on three major features: “a new suite of app performance profiling tools to quickly diagnose performance issues, support for theKotlin programming language, and increased Gradle build speeds for large sized app projects....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. First screenshots, now video: Here’s Android Pie on the Galaxy S9 August 18, 2025 We recently wrote about someSamsung Galaxy S9 Plus Android Pie screenshotsthatXDA Developersgot its hands on. These were taken from a leaked build of the yet-to-be-released firmware, giving us a glimpse of what we can expect from Samsung Experience 10.0 (based onAndroid 9.0 Pie) when it’s released....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. For the first time, Netflix beats Disney as the most profitable entertainment company July 09, 2025 WhenNetflixfirst became a public company back in 2002, it was simply a mail-order DVD service. Since then – thanks mostly to pioneering the streaming media industry – its stock has surged 33,000 percent. Today, for the first time, Netflix became the world’s most valuable entertainment company (viaThe New York Post), knocking Disney down to second....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 20 headed your way in a new minty fresh color Aug 09, 2025 If recent leaks and rumors are to be believed, Samsung will soon launch a slate of new products. On the cards are two SamsungGalaxy Note 20 models, a new Galaxy Z Flip,Galaxy Watch 3,Galaxy Buds Live, andGalaxy Tab S7. All these are expected to show up either at Samsung’s rumored summer Unpacked event, or the days leading up to it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google AI’s photo recognition achieves 94 percent accuracy July 09, 2025 We’ve all enjoyed the simple benefits of Google’s artificial intelligence photo recognition.Google Photosemploys a very stripped down version of the algorithm to identify pictures as containing cats, dogs, food, or specific people. However, the search giant has been working on much more advanced photo recognition capabilities, and today they’ve released their progress to developers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google I/O 2019: Most important announcements August 24, 2025 Google droppeda lot of newson Day One of Google I/O, its annual developer conference, and it sees artificial intelligence taking an even larger role in how we interact with our devices. Google envisions a future where AI is more ubiquitous where we’ll be making requests of our phones, computers, cars, in-home speakers, and much more....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Photos update helps free up precious phone storage August 23, 2025 Running out of storage space on a phone is a major pain point that affects millions of Android users across the world. Google understands that, and has come up with a simple solution that helps free up storage space on one’s phone. Google has pushed a major update forGoogle Photos, which introduces two new features to the gallery app....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel sees a huge discount at Verizon this Black Friday (Updated) June 04, 2025 Original post (11/22):If you don’t mind being locked into a two-year payment plan,Verizonhas areally, reallygood deal on theGoogle Pixel and Pixel XL. From this Thursday, November 24 through Friday, November 25, Verizon is selling the 32GB Google Pixel and Pixel XL for an incredibly low $10 per month, while the 128GB Pixel and Pixel XL are going for just $15 per month....