Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung has a task force charged with creating chips for self-driving cars Jun 08, 2025 Samsungis getting serious about being the default chipmaker for self-driving cars, with a new report claiming the electronics giant has formed a task force charged with developing chips for autonomous vehicles.The Korea Heraldcites a local daily newspaper that claims the task force has been built around researchers from Samsung’s semiconductor and sensor division, System LSI, and follows the creation of an automotive parts division late last year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Pay gets gift card support, $200 activation bonus with new phone purchase June 02, 2025 Got a gift card lying around in some drawer? Samsung Pay now lets you digitize it so you don’t have to worry about losing or forgetting about it. Following the addition ofpublic transit card supportin South Korea and Japan, Samsung is now bringing gift card to its fledgling mobile payments service....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung talks folding phone design, says innovation isn’t dead August 17, 2025 Betweentriple camerasandslider designs, it’s tough to argue that we’re not seeing at leastsomeinnovation in the smartphone space. ButSamsung(unsurprisingly) thinks the real innovation will come in the display arena. In ablog postwritten on the Samsung website, a company executive said “modest smartphone sales” have signaled that innovation has reached a bottleneck....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung tops this chart after Android 11 update, and that’s not a good thing June 04, 2025 Samsunghas done a pretty good job of bringing Android 11-based One UI 3.0 to its smartphones, while also promising three generations of Android updates to select devices. Unfortunately, the company has earned a rather dubious honor thanks to itsAndroid 11update. The team behind theDontKillMyApp websitehas ranked Samsung at the top of its charts following the company’s latest Android version update....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Spacetime Games' Call of Champions headed to the Play Store in 2015 (Update: out now!) June 03, 2025 [gallery columns=“4” link=“file” size=“medium” ids=“657125,657126,657123,657124”] [aa_button text=“Download Call of Champions from the Play Store” url=“https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sts.ch” size=“medium” align=“center” nofollow=“0” color=“0” ] Original post (2/26):Spacetime Games, the developers behind Arcane Legends and Pocket Legends, have just announced their plans to bring a new MOBA-style game entitled Call of Champions to the Play Store sometime this year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Summoners War celebrates 5-year anniversary with in-game rewards and live events August 24, 2025 There aren’t many games that maintain an active user base for five years, but Com2us’ Summoners War has managed to do just that. The hugely popularmobile RPGhas been around since April of 2014, when the latest version of Android available was KitKat. For reference, that’s just a few days older than the OnePlus One, and we’re now getting details on theOnePlus 7....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Super-strict California net neutrality bill attains victory, heading to Senate June 24, 2025 A California net neutrality bill that is even stricter than the recently-dissolved federal mandates just attained a huge victory: a 59-18 vote in the California Assembly, viaVariety. With this success under the bill’s belt, it now moves on to the California Senate, where a vote is expected next week....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. SXSW 2016 through the eyes of LG G5 July 02, 2025 Smartphone cameras have become a crucial part of our daily existence as they aimed (and succeeded) in superseding our need to carry a dedicated camera. Most succeed to varying degrees of success, but some are more reliable than others at those special occasions where you want to capture every detail possible....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. TCL doesn’t see the point of a 5G BlackBerry smartphone August 08, 2025 Plenty of manufacturers have launched or plan to launch5G phonesin 2019 and 2020. But one brand that probably won’t offer this feature isBlackBerry. “I don’t see the point of5Gon a BlackBerry,” said TCL’s general manager of marketing Stefan Streit, according toPocket Lint. “It’s not an entertainment device and you may already get your email really fast,” the representative reportedly added....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The best selling Android phone in 2019 was 85% cheaper than the Galaxy S20 Ultra July 09, 2025 AppleandSamsungare the two most popular smartphone brands in the world today. Unsurprisingly, it looks like both companies had a great 2019 in terms of sales. Tracking companyOmdiarevealed its list of the top ten best-selling smartphones of 2019 (h/t:MacRumors), and it looks like Samsung had a bumper year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Gboard formerly known as Google Keyboard is now in Google Play June 23, 2025 Back in May 2016, Google brought an awesome new app called Gboardto iOS, giving users the ability to perform Google searches right inside the keyboard app. Google promised Gboard would someday make its way to Android, and we’re happy to say that day has finally arrived....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This Moleskine pen and notebook digitizes doodles on the fly August 09, 2025 For a long time, Moleskine notebooks have been the guilty pleasure of artists, writers, and academics alike. Now tech geeks can be included in the Moleskine fandom, because the company has just launched a new product that automatically digitizes everything you scribble in the notebook by syncing up with your phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Upgrading from HUAWEI Mate 7 to HUAWEI Mate 8 July 28, 2025 Back in early January I wrote about my experience going froma Nexus 6 over to the Nexus 6P. Shortly after that, I temporarily put away my Nexus 6P to explore another new phone I managed to get my hands on, the HUAWEI Mate 8. Like the Nexus 6P in relation to the Nexus 6, I am very familiar with the HUAWEI Mate 8’s predecessor....