Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 90Hz displays are headed to realme and OPPO phones, but is it a gimmick? June 23, 2025 High display refresh rates seem to be the ‘It’ feature many smartphone makers are adopting right now. While few smartphone manufacturers are jumping to refresh rates as high as 120Hz (found on theRazer Phoneseries andROG Phone 2), they are upping them from 60Hz to 90Hz....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Amid increasing competition, Lenovo returns with a smaller Smart Display July 01, 2025 In mid-2018, Lenovo entered the smart display race withGoogle Assistant-based 8-inch and 10-inch models. Today atIFA 2019, the company revealed plans to release a smaller and cheaper model, the Lenovo Smart Display 7. This device is clearly meant to compete with the 7-inchGoogle Nest Huband the more recently launched 5....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Wear v2.6 is here with some worthwhile quality of life upgrades July 06, 2025 Google’sAndroid 8.1 Oreosoftware has been dominating the news lately, leaving Android Wear on the sidelines. Google is now deploying the latest version of Android Wear, v2.6, however, and while it doesn’t offer much in the way of bold new features, the interface upgrades it does deliver are smart ones....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple asks us to think of the children when it comes to sideloading June 19, 2025 Apple has been on the warpath lately as the company comes under scrutiny for its practices related to the App Store and other businesses. The issue of sideloading apps on the iPhone is the latest focus for the company, with CEO Tim Cookspeaking outagainst the practice in an interview last week....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple’s drop in iPhone shipments brought down entire premium market in Q1 2019 August 19, 2025 According to the latest report fromCounterpoint Research, the premium global smartphone market dropped by a whopping 8 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2019. It appears that a major contributor to this drop isApple, which saw its iPhone shipments drop by an astonishing 20 percent during the period....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Arm’s new technologies make displays smarter and more efficient Jul 12, 2025 Mali-D71 Display Processor We first heard about Arm’s new display processor back in May when we received details ofa new display processor code-named Cetus. Cetus, or the Mali-D71 as it is now known, works in conjunction with the GPU to take care of tasks like rotation, scaling, and image enhancement....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best of Android 2018: The best innovations July 24, 2025 A decade into the smartphone revolution, innovation seems to have slowed to a crawl. In 2018, we saw smartphones converge in appearance, performance, and features. So many products from competing OEMs this year look and feel almost the same. Smartphones have hit the “Plateau of Productivity,” the final stage of the hype cycle, when incremental refinement replaces the wild growth of early days....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Big sound from tiny speakers: How Smart Power Amplifiers make it happen July 27, 2025 Modern smartphones have to keep up with our increasingly demanding audio needs. Whether it’s wireless audio playback, traditional wired headphones, or the increasing consumption of audio over phone speakers, we’re consuming greater amounts of music, movies, and games than ever before. Building a smartphone capable of delivering exceptional quality audio, particularly over tiny mobile speakers, is no small task....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. BitTorrent Sync: Everything you need to know July 15, 2025 There are a lot of ways to sync files between your PC and your various mobile devices. The most popular one is cloud storage, but there are other ways. BitTorrent Sync is an app that keeps your phone synced to your computer and both synced to your tablet. It’s a unique and powerful application and here we’ll take a closer look....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Chinese, Korean, and 20 other languages come to Google’s Gboard today July 18, 2025 Googlereplaced the native Android keyboard withGboardback in 2016. The new virtual keyboard app was highly praised for its integration of new features like Google search, image search, and GIF search built right into the keyboard itself. But Gboard only came in U.S. English at first, and thenslowly added more languages....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Dropbox Paper hits Play Store, challenges Evernote June 28, 2025 Dropboxis beta testing a new app called Paper, a tool that aims to place you and your collaborators all on the same page. It’s another iron in the fire for Dropbox, and more flames to the feet ofEvernote. Dropbox Paper’s beta build just hit the Google Play store, so you may give it a spin now....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 20 spotted wearing bright red, blue, and pink colorways June 14, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy Note 20may look fairly lacklustre on paper compared to its more expensiveGalaxy Note 20 Ultrasibling, but it does have an advantage when it comes to colorways. While the Ultra is available in the fairly unexciting bronze, black, and white shades, the Note 20 can be had in Mystic Green and Mystic Gray colorways too....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S22 series already facing shipping delays due to ‘all-time high’ interest July 13, 2025 Samsungopened up pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S22 series on February 9, which was launch day. On that day, the company said phones would arrive on or before the general on-sale date, which is February 25. See also:Everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S22 series...