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This week in Android: Android’s big rebrand and a tour of HUAWEI’s $1.5b HQ
July 02, 2025
This week Google unveileda massive rebranding of Android, modernizing the colors, wordmark, and even theiconic bugdroid. As part of the change, Android willno longer use dessert namesfor new OS versions, and Android Q will now be known asAndroid 10.
On the other side of the world, we got atour of HUAWEI’s $1.5 billion headquartersin Shenzhen, China. We heard first-hand what HUAWEI’s plans for the future are, including5G,HarmonyOS, internet-of-things devices, and of course,smartphones.
As for reviews, this week we pushed out reviews for theSamsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus, theRedmi K20, and theJBL Link Barall-in-one smartspeaker.
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This week was a big one, so had three full episodes of the Android Authority podcast. In the first episode, we discussed the Android rebrand and our week-long tour of HUAWEI’s headquarters.
In the second episode, Adam Doud sat down with David Imel to talk about the Note 10 Plus and why it represents a big change for the flagship series.
Finally, we got nerdy with Gary Sims ofGary Explainsto talk about open source hardware and designing a smartphone chip.
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