Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Redmi 7 review: A suitable upgrade over the Redmi 6 July 15, 2025 Xiaomi Redmi 7 What we like What we don’t like Our scores Xiaomi’s 2019 lineup forRedmiphones represents a drastic step up in almost every aspect. From design to hardware and battery life, the all-new Redmi 7 is nothing like the phone it replaces. Renewed competition fromSamsung,Asus,Realmeand others have givenXiaomia renewed focus and it is very visible in the company’s latest hardware....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: a different Samsung phone, the Galaxy J5, has caught fire July 08, 2025 ASamsung Galaxy J5smartphone “exploded” in France on Sunday, according to a report fromAssociated Press. Lamya Bouyirdane, the smartphone’s owner, said she noticed that the phone was hot while at a family gathering. Bouyirdane threw the device away when it began to smoke, before it then caught fire and its back “blew off”....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Amazon working on new smartphone lineup codenamed “Ice” June 27, 2025 Amazonis reportedly at work on a new smartphone lineup currently being developed under the codename “Ice.” The new devices would succeed Amazon’spoorly receivedFire Phone from 2014 and would come with Google’s suite of apps such as Gmail and Google Play. The Fire Phone, as well as Amazon’s range of Fire tablets, do not include these features....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung flagships now receiving February security patches August 03, 2025 Last year, Google made a promise to provide regular security updates to keep their major Nexus devices safe. Seeing the sense in this,Samsungtook a similar oath, and has so far been good on their word. That means if you’ve got a device that was launched as a flagship smartphone, you can expect to get the latestsecurity patchOver The Air sometime very soon....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (Snapdragon) rooted without tripping Knox July 15, 2025 A root method for the Snapdragon (US) variant of theSamsung Galaxy Note 8has now been provided thanks to team from theXDA Developersforums. The method is known as SamFAIL and the folks behind it have even managed to achieve it without trippingKnox. The procedure is based on a modified boot image which can be flashed using Samsung’s ODIN utility software, and you can re-flash the stock Note 8 software at any time (again, without tripping Knox)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. SolidEnergy’s battery claims twice the energy density of traditional li-ion, coming 2016 July 17, 2025 Smartphone specifications are better than ever, but battery technology has remained stagnant for years. Fortunately, engineers share our complaints and SolidEnergy, another start-up to come out of MIT, is boasting a new battery design that will hopefully lengthen our smartphone usage times. The technology promises twice the energy density of today’s traditional lithium-ion batteries....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony Mobile releases flash tool for its Xperia devices August 04, 2025 If you own a Sony Xperia device and are into hacking then you will definitely be familiar with Flashtool, an app for Sony’s Android devices that allows users to install custom ROMs. Flashtool is really important for users when it comes to running custom ROMs, but the only problem with it is that it won’t let users safely install official Sony Android firmware on Xperia devices that have an unlocked bootloader....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony Xperia X Performance will see a limited release in the UK July 01, 2025 Sony’sXperia X line of phoneshave already released in some parts of the world, though until now it has not been clear as to if the highest end product, the Xperia X Performance, would launch in the UK. It seems those fearing for the worst can alleviate their concerns, as the device will indeed be launching in the United Kingdom, but at the moment just with a single retailer....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony’s Lollipop build may have just been spotted if these leaked shots are legit July 16, 2025 Sony has hit a rough patch in the past few years, and its latest lament seems to be the mobile space. While some of uswaxed poetic this past Fridayon the matter, it’s important to remember that Sony does, in fact, have a new flaghship in the works, the Xperia Z4....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Squeeze play: compression in video interfaces August 25, 2025 In 2014 theVideo Electronics Standards Association(VESA) introducedthe 1.0 version of its Display Stream Compression (DSC) specification, the first standard system for compressing video specifically intended for use with hardwired display interfaces. The DSC standard was alsoendorsed by the MIPI Alliance, paving the way for widespread use in mobile devices and other applications beyond VESA’s original PC-centric focus....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2 keeps boldly going to the right places July 28, 2025 Star Trek: Lower Decks is back for season two onParamount Plus, and the animated series is as good as ever. The “lower decks” crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos continues to vie for the attention of their superiors in the new season, as Boimler adjusts to life aboard the bridge of the U....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. State of IAPs: iOS users spend 2.5x more on in-app purchases than Android users August 14, 2025 It has long been known among mobile developers that iOS apps earn more than Android apps. However, this new report from global mobile marketing attribution analytics company AppsFlyer shows us just how wide this gulf really is when it comes to IAPs. To cut a long story short, iOS users on average spend nearly 2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sundar Pichai talks Nexus, AI, Google Home, and EU legal issues August 19, 2025 On that last note, Pichar commented that the search giant was expecting to be “more opinionated about the design of the phones,” which many are interpreting to mean that Google will be wanting to designNexusdevices so as to best showcase developing technologies. This does not mean that Google will be making the phones themselves; they’re still planning on working with OEMs for the process....