Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Poll: When was the last time you used panorama mode on your phone? July 02, 2025 Panorama modes are a staple on smartphone camera apps, allowing users to pan their device to take a composite photo. This means you may get a wider field of view than a conventional main camera on a phone. We have a feeling that theultra-wide camerahas replaced the panorama mode for at least some users....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: Pixel shipments could hit 4 million this year July 02, 2025 Googlecertainly has high expectations for its newPixelandPixel XLsmartphones. With top of the range hardware and a price tag to match, Google is squarely taking aim at high-end manufacturers Apple and Samsung with its latest smartphones. According toDigiTimes Research, Google can expect to sell somewhere between 3 and 4 million Pixel smartphones before the end of 2016....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Rumored Galaxy S9 feature to combine iris scan and face recognition technology July 29, 2025 Android users wondering how Samsung will react to thesuccess of the iPhone X’s Face IDtechnology may be happy to hear about the latest rumoredSamsung Galaxy S9feature. Called “Intelligent Scan,” the feature seems to be a new way of unlocking your phone that combines existing iris scan and face recognition technology....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy A51 international giveaway! June 14, 2025 NOTE:This giveaway has now ended.Check out the latest giveaway here. It’s time for the Sunday giveaway! Like every week, we’re giving away a brand new Android phone to one luckyAndroid Authorityreader. A big congratulations to the winner of last week’sSamsung Galaxy Note 10 Plusgiveaway, Pravinsinh R. from India. This week we’re giving away a brand newSamsung Galaxy A51, courtesy of theAA Deals Store!...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy M21 2021 Edition launched, but can you spot the difference? July 07, 2025 There’s a newSamsungmid-ranger with a big battery available in India this month. The Korean company has announced theGalaxy M21 2021 Edition‘s arrival in the country. As its name suggests, the Galaxy M21 2021 edition isn’t a vast upgrade over the original M21 launched in March 2020....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy S8 release date reportedly delayed to April 28 July 16, 2025 A new report claims that we might have to wait a little bit longer before we get our hands on the long-awaitedSamsung Galaxy S8. The story claims that the company has pushed back its release by one week, from April 21 to April 28. The report comes fromVentureBeatand noted gadget info leaker Evan “@evleaks” Blass....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung launches Z4 smartphone with Tizen OS July 22, 2025 Samsung has announced the Z4 smartphone running the company’s ownTizen3.0 operating system. It’s an entry-level device that sports a 4.5-inch display (800 x 480 pixels) with 2.5D curved glass on top and is powered by an unspecified quad-core processor clocked at 1.5 GHz. The interesting part though is not the specs, but that it’s an Android challenger targeted at developing markets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Spotify price increases are on the way, says company CEO August 16, 2025 However, the company failed to increase sales and earnings during that same period. Spotify’s stock value dropped immediately. This resulted in Spotify’s co-founder and CEO David Ek to comment that there will definitely be Spotify price increases at some point in the near future. Spotify price increase: Why, when, and where?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sprint faces another lawsuit for allegedly underpaying its employees June 17, 2025 According to theKansas City Star,a former Sprint employee has filed a lawsuit against the US telecommunications company for overworking and underpaying her. She will be represented by the same lawyer who represented a group of Sprint employees earlier this year on the same issue. If you recall, there was a class action suit against Sprint earlier this year, in which a group of former workers claimed that the American carrier failed to pay them for the hours that they put in....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Witcher Season 2 on Netflix: Release date and more on the fantasy series June 15, 2025 The Witcher became one of the biggest originalNetflixTV series of all time when it debuted in December 2019. The mature-themed fantasy series, based on the best selling Witcher novels and popular video games, was a huge showcase for its lead actor, Henry Cavill....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The worst decisions in Android OEM history August 22, 2025 Android has a heck of a lot of features that other operating systems don’t, but we can’t just pretend that the manufacturers that use it don’t make mistakes on occasion. For every new awesome feature put in our devices, there’s a badly implemented gimmick or decision that most of us find absolutely incomprehensible....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This week in Android: Galaxy S20 leaks, POCO F2 details, and more! June 24, 2025 This week we learned all about the Samsung Galaxy S20 lineup ahead of next month’sofficial launch event. We’ve seen leakedspecs,real-life images, and evena short videoshowing one of the devices. Keep up with the latest rumors and leakshere. Another highly anticipated device was in the news this week, with Xiaomi registering thePOCO F2 trademarkin India....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This week in Apple: iPhone launch date revealed, ‘walkie-talkie’ idea shelved July 09, 2025 The big Apple news this week was the announcement of a September 10 event in Cupertino, where we’ll most likely see the launch of the 2019 iPhones (mockups of those phones are pictured above). We also saw some little news stories, such as a rumor that Apple had a “walkie-talkie” feature in mind for the iPhone (but has shelved it for now), Siri privacy concerns, the sound quality of Apple’s AirPods, Apple’s slightly-altered stance on right-to-repair, and some news regarding a new Apple TV Plus show....