Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Verizon puts hold on sales of future Pixel phones (Update: Not so fast) July 06, 2025 Update, June 22, 2025 ():Verizon has denied a report (seen in the original article below) that it’s put a hold on sales of future Pixel devices. Android Policereported earlier today that the carrier has indefinitely halted sales of future Pixel devices such as thePixel 4aand Pixel 5....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung employees asked to keep Galaxy S8 info confidential August 22, 2025 This isn’t the first time that Samsung had to urge its employees to keep Galaxy S8 related information strictly confidential. That time, someone obviously didn’t listen, and it’s the same story again: in a leaked email, Samsung Mobile head DJ Koh asks that Samsung employees tighten data security regarding the company’s upcoming flagship....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung further breaks down the security update timeline for its devices July 02, 2025 Samsung is currently doing a great job of offering timely software updates to its devices. After announcingfour years of security updatesfor all Samsung devices released in 2019 or later, the company has further clarified the timeline for these updates. Samsung now breaks down its phones and tablets under monthly, quarterly, and biannual categories for receiving the latest Android security patches....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus fast charging explained June 11, 2025 TheGalaxy Note 10 Plusis Samsung’sfastest chargingsmartphone to date, provided that you’re willing to splash out on its $5045W Super Fast charger(you get a 25W charger in the retail box). This is a notable improvement compared to previous Note generations, which only supported up to 15W charging. The boost in power sees Samsung switch to USB Power Delivery for fast charging, rather than its previous Qualcomm Quick Charge-based solution....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy S20 FE vs iPhone 12 camera shootout: Close, but not quite July 23, 2025 The convenience of a phone camera is why it has become such an intrinsic part of the smartphone experience. The ability to quickly whip it out of your pocket, take a photograph, and know that you’ll get a great-looking image is why a lot of people splurge on a high-end flagship phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung still believes in Tizen, releases dirt-cheap Z2 in India August 21, 2025 Tizen, Samsung’s homegrown operating system, may seem dead in the water, but the Korean giant is not ready to give up on it just yet. Samsungannouncedthe third Tizen-powered smartphone for the Indian market today. The Z2 (note the absence of the “Galaxy” branding”) follows up on the Z1 (January 2015) and the Z3 (October 2015)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s new mid-rangers borrow features and design cues from the Galaxy S6 June 20, 2025 Samsung just took the veils off the 2016 Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, and Galaxy A7, its new upper mid-range devices featuring design and functionality borrowed from the top of the line Galaxy S6. The Galaxy A (2016) series is the sequel to the Galaxy A3 and A5, that Samsung announced last October and released in December 2015....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Star Wars' Holochess creator has a monster-battling AR game on Kickstarter August 07, 2025 You read that right. The original designer of the classic HoloChess scene in A New Hope, Phil Tippett, has aKickstarter campaignrunning for a game calledHoloGrid: Monster Battle. It’s not quite the HoloChess you know from the movie because the AR tech isn’t there yet, but it is the foundation for what will evolve into full-blown HoloChess when the technology catches up....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Steve Kondik is officially out of Cyanogen Inc. June 19, 2025 Cyanogen Inc.has announced that it is relocating to Palo Alto, California and has separated ties with co-founder Steve Kondik. The post, published yesterday by Cyanogen CEO Lior Tal on the company blog, sheds further light on the circumstances surrounding therecent closureof its Seattle office. “The purpose of the change is to improve the communication and performance of the team which will now operate under one roof....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. T-Mobile confirms OnePlus 7 Pro on-sale date (Update: No OnePlus 7 for now) July 31, 2025 Update, June 12, 2025 (05:56 PM ET):In a statement toAndroid Authority, T-Mobile confirmed that, at this time, the company is “only offering the OnePlus 7 Pro.” T-Mobile said the company would be able to divulge more details on May 14, the day of the OnePlus 7 series launch....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. TCL announces its first sets of headphones and soundbars June 27, 2025 Chinese manufacturer TCL is going all-out at CES 2019 withfour new lines of headphonesandtwo new soundbars. These are the first TCL-brandedheadphonesand soundbars. Starting with the headphones, the four new product lines are SOCL, MTRO, ACTV, and ELIT. The SOCL line includes six options: three wired earbuds and threeBluetoothvariants....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The mythical unicorn that is the Saygus V2 pays the FCC a visit June 27, 2025 At this point, theSaygus V2is more convincing as an urban legend than an actual smartphone. 2015 was supposed to be the year when everyone could get their hands on the V2, when Saygus made every power user’s dream come true. Fast forward two years, and that has yet to happen....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. There’s a new celebrity Google Assistant voice: Issa Rae from HBO’s Insecure August 01, 2025 The first celebrity voice for Google Assistant was singerJohn Legend. Now, we can add a second celebrity voice to the list: actress Issa Rae, creator and star of the show Insecure on HBO (viaThe Verge). However, Rae’s voice will be different than what Google achieved with John Legend’s voice....