Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alcatel Idol 4 and Idol 4S officially announced: here’s what you need to know August 05, 2025 Alcatel’s Idol 3was one of the best budget smartphones of last year, and now the company, which has been rebranded from Alcatel OneTouch to just Alcatel, has released two new successors here atMWC 2016. The Alcatel Idol 4 is more of a successor to the 4....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Amazon Alexa can now whisper or scold you June 08, 2025 Amazon’s Alexais already a daily interlocutor on your conversations but you may have occasionally found yourself wishing that talking to Alexa could be a little more… lifelike. Well, that time is now here. Amazon engineers have recently detailed additions they’ve made to the Speech Synthesis Markup Language that Alexa uses, which will allow skills developers to humanize Alexa in a number of new ways....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Amid uncertainty, AT&T gives Galaxy Fold new mid-June shipping date June 28, 2025 AT&Thas updated itsGalaxy Foldshipping date ETA for pre-order customers, and it says the flexible flagship will now arrive June 13. The news comes shortly afterSamsungannounced it haddelayed the Galaxy Fold‘s release following reviewer complaints about broken displays. Samsung was set to release the Galaxy Fold in the U....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. B.R.O. Ball is both a football and a super durable Bluetooth speaker August 22, 2025 While at least some of our readers probably own a Bluetooth speakeranda football, odds are none of you have one product that acts as both. Strangely enough, that’s exactly what you get with the B.R.O. Ball (Bring Rhythm Outdoors ball). The creators behind the B....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Chrome for Android will let you interact with nearby smart objects July 03, 2025 Google is bringing support for Physical Web to Chrome for Android. The feature has been available on Chrome for iOS since last summer and now Google is finally opening it up to its own platform. What is Physical Web, you may ask. Here’s how Googledescribesit: Explained in the most basic form, Physical Web means objects can broadcast via Bluetooth an URL to every device in its range....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Consumer Reports is not happy with the way Samsung is handling the Note 7 recall July 07, 2025 Following days of heavy rumors, Samsung has moved in to quell fears about the safety of the Note 7. The company assured that only a very small number of devices pose a risk and announced a worldwide recall program, “out of an abundance of caution....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Does Google need to return to China? It’s complicated. August 10, 2025 There are more than one billion mobile phone users in China, and somewhere over 40% of them are using smartphones. China became the world’s biggest smartphone market way back in 2011 or 2012, depending on which analysts you believe. It’s still growing.IDCsays the 107.5 million smartphones shipped to China in the last quarter of 2014 represent 2% growth on the same quarter in 2013....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Drowning in debt, British luxury smartphone maker Vertu calls it quits (for now) July 21, 2025 Known for making subjectively outlandish luxury phones, British outfit Vertu was able to carve out enough of a sizable niche to allow it to stay afloat for almost two decades. However, with a failed plan to rescue itself out of bankruptcy in the rearview mirror, Vertu announced its U....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Essential might be in trouble, but you wouldn’t know it from all the recent PH-1 updates June 12, 2025 Although last weekEssential dropped the bombthat it is canceling the Essential Phone 2 and probably going to sell off the company, you wouldn’t know it from all the updates it is issuing for its only mobile phone product, theEssential Phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook Messenger now only shares your location when told to August 02, 2025 Today,Facebook Messengeris receiving an update which changes the way that the app handles location sharing. After a few months in the works,Facebookhas decided to disable location sharing by default, instead allowing users to explicitly send a map of their location or another particular place as a separate message....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. FTC may launch antitrust case against Google over Android August 19, 2025 Googleis currently under the spotlight in a number of countries for possibly abusing its market position and the US’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may also be back on Google’s case, according to two sources familiar with the matter. TheFTCis said to have reached an agreement with the Justice Department to spearhead an investigation into Android....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gboard 2.0 for iOS gets some theming features Android version lacks June 07, 2025 The iOS and Android versions ofGoogle’s Gboard appare usually pretty synced, but occasionally one will jump ahead of the other when it comes to new features and functions. With that in mind, it looks like the iOS version ofGboardnow has some nifty customization features that the Android version lacks (via9to5Google)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google collaborates with Cowan to bring ‘Really Blue’ jeans June 09, 2025 When Google first announced the Pixel duo and the exclusive “Really Blue” color, I thought it was the ugliest thing ever. But it turns out, a lot of people thought the exact opposite:the blue variant was sold out in the blink of an eye, and Google has had trouble keeping those in stock....