Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Qualcomm built its ideal smartphone, but is it actually any good? July 20, 2025 Qualcomm unveiled itsSnapdragon Insiderscommunity program back in early 2021 and unveiled the ASUS-madeSmartphone for Snapdragon Insidersin July. Designed to appeal to the enthusiast market, the handset packs in the latest and greatest technology Qualcomm and its partners have to offer. Put simply, this is Qualcomm’s vision of what a smartphone should be....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung ordered to pay HUAWEI $11 million over patent infringement July 09, 2025 It’s been a rocky six months forSamsung. It’s Galaxy Note 7 wascancelledlate last year, then its boss wasarrested, and now, a Chinese court has ordered it to pay 80 million Yuan (~$11.60 million) to HUAWEI for patent infringement. According toReuters,Huaweisued a total of five companies in China, three of Samsung’s and two Chinese electronics companies, for “making and selling more than 20 kinds of Samsung smartphone and tablet products” that infringed its patents....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung realizes big power savings with its 14nm Exynos 7420 SoC July 27, 2025 Samsung’s Galaxy S6flagship has been topping theperformance benchmarkssince its release, thanks to the company’s in house Exynos 7420 system-on-a-chip. The chip is built on the industry’s smallest 14nm manufacturing process, allowing for greater processing performance in a more energy efficient package. The clever folks over atAnandTechhave put together a comprehensive deep-dive into the inner workings of Samsung’s cutting edge 14nm processor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung runs full-page apology in US newspapers over Galaxy Note 7 cancellation August 12, 2025 Samsunghas printed a full page apology for itsGalaxy Note 7cancellation in three major US newspapers;The Wall Street Journal,The New York Times, andThe Washington Post. Samsung abandoned the Note 7 after recalling the device twice due to overheating concerns. It’s now in the process of searching for the root cause....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung said to have begun Infinity-O display manufacturing, possibly for Galaxy S10 July 17, 2025 Samsung has reportedly begun mass production ofInfinity-Odisplays. These are OLED displays featuring a hole for the front camera thatsome saythe company will use on the Galaxy S10. ETNewsreports Samsung has updated its existing manufacturing facilities to allow for their production. If the report is accurate, the timing would suggest the display could ready for the S10, expected around March....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Say hello to microSD Express — the new fastest memory card for smartphones July 04, 2025 The SD Association hastoday announcedmicroSD Express, a new storage format for mobile devices. The association revealed the product duringMWC 2019, and it’s calling it the “fastest memory card for mobile devices.” MicroSD express supports the PCIe 3.1 and NVMe v1.3 specifications via its second pin-row, delivering theoretical transfer rates of up to 985MB per second (yes, almost one gigabyte every second)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Shield Tablet and Tablet K1 set to receive Android Marshmallow in the coming months June 08, 2025 Today NVIDIA brought the Shield Tablet back to stores as the Tablet K1, a few minor changes in tow. Alongside this announcement, NVIDIA had also revealed that it eventually plans to bring Marshmallow to both SHIELD Tablet models. While the Shield Tablet K1 launched with Android 5....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Smart TVs might add an Xbox in 2021, and more tech news you need to know today June 10, 2025 1. The future is your Smart TV playing Xbox games Xbox chief Phil Spencer gavean interview withThe Vergeas part of an hour-long podcast. There’s a fair bit in there andThe Vergehelpfully has an edited transcript. But on that point, and something I wanted to highlight more: Microsoft is already thinking of adding the Xbox console experience as an app for smart TVs....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony sees profit in Q2 2015, but not from smartphones August 25, 2025 Things have been tough forSonythis last decade or so, with their once-towering stock ($150 a share in 2000) bottoming out at $9.75 in 2012. Since then, the Japanese company has been on the move to adopt a new corporate identity and remain competitive in the global market....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Spilled PSVR 2 headset secrets point to big feature buffs, hybrid games July 13, 2025 Sony teased details of its upcomingPSVR 2a few months ago but mainly focused on controller specs. Now, alleged details from a private Sony development meet have shed new details on the system as a whole. The conference, which took place on August 3, was first reported by YouTube channelPSVR Without Parole(viaUploadVR)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Archos Hello is a smart display that strangely runs Android Oreo July 15, 2025 Amazonentered the smart display market with itsEcho Show, while Googleshowed usduringCES 2018that itplans to do the samewith Google Assistant and device manufacturers. This time around, French manufacturer Archos launched theHello, its first smart display that is reminiscent of Lenovo’s pair of Smart Displays. That is thanks to the Hello’s wood back covering and its ability to be positioned either vertically or horizontally....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The OPPO Find X will launch in India July 12 June 01, 2025 Even though theOPPO Find Xwill (sadly)not launch in the U.S.,Oppoannounced that India will be the phone’s newest home. The company took to Twitter to announce that the Find X will launch in India July 12. OPPO also confirmed there will be a live-stream of the event, though it did not say when the launch event begins....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This new Android TV set-top box supports 4K and costs under $70 August 09, 2025 For some time now, if you wanted to addAndroid TVto your television, the best solution would be to buy a $180NVIDIA Shield TV. But for many, that’s a lot of money for a set-top streaming box. Thankfully,Jetstream, a new Android TV device, is now available and brings 4K Ultra HD content to your big screen for just $69 (via9to5Google)....