Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Verizon offering new family plan with 16GB of data, $150 August 22, 2025 Even as theydiscuss axing higher data-users,Verizonis making new options available for people who consume substantial amounts of content on the go. Their new family plan provides 16GB of data on 4 lines with a price point of $150 per month. As part of the promotion accompanying the unveiling of this plan, Verizon is throwing in an extra 2Gb of data onto each line for every upgrade or activation....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Video: new Chrome task scheduler promises to make scrolling much smoother June 22, 2025 Sub-par scrolling has long been an issue onChrome for Android, one that can affect even the latest devices with extensive memory and processing power. The good news is Google is working to solve the issue. In March, the Chromium team announced it would adopt Pointer Events, whichshould help reduce lag when scrolling, and now a revamped task scheduler promises to further increase smoothness....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Voice Action Services is an EU compliant alternative to Google Assistant August 15, 2025 Google has released a new voice assistant app calledVoice Action Servicesin order to comply with newEuropean regulations,reports9to5Google. The app will not require Chrome and Google Search to work, giving devices that come without these apps preinstalled limited voice assistant functionality. Screenshots provided on the Play Store listing for the app show it looks similar to the regularGoogle Assistant....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: It’s a two-horse race for the biggest fail of 2020 June 06, 2025 We don’t need to tell you 2020 was an unprecedented year. The coronavirus pandemic touched almost every aspect of life, down to the industry we all love to follow. With everything that has happened over the last 12 months, weasked youto tell us what you thought were the biggest missteps the industry made....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: Most of your photos get touch-ups before you share them June 15, 2025 Over the past five years or so, the photo and video capabilities of smartphones have taken center stage as the star feature of any new device. That’s been great for consumers, as cameras on phoneshave gotten better and better. However, are they good enough that you don’t need to do any smartphone photo editing?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: Your favourite Galaxy Note 9 feature starts with a ‘4’ July 28, 2025 This week’s poll asked you whichSamsung Galaxy Note 9feature you like most. The answer wasn’t a big surprise, but at the same time, it shows where phone manufacturers keep making mistakes. TheGalaxy Note 9is seen as an iterative new smartphone, a phone where natural selection plays out over theNote 8, with refinements, improvements, and new features that won’t change the world but do make for a better device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. July 15, 2025 It’s nearly here.WhatsApp‘s long-awaited multi-device support has landed as an experimental feature. Facebook’s engineering team made theannouncementthis week while detailing the feature’s complex inner workings. Per Facebook, multi-device support has prompted a “rethink” of the chat app’s architecture. How multi-device support works Previously, WhatsApp saw the primary smartphone as a “source of truth” — the device used as the cornerstone of that users’ account encryption....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. WhatsApp’s Advanced Search feature is now rolling out to Android August 03, 2025 Update, June 29, 2025 (8AM ET): WhatsApp is now rolling out the new Advanced Search feature to Android beta tester months after it was implemented on iOS (h/tWABetaInfo). You will need to be a WhatsApp beta tester for Android and have app version 2.20.197.7 or higher to access the feature....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Where to buy Google Home, Home Mini, and Home Max (Update: Home Max now on sale) July 11, 2025 Connected speakers are becoming a big thing nowadays, and Amazon, Google, and Apple (well, soon) are at the forefront of the new trend. Amazon’sEcho speakershave been around for a few years now, but Google is quickly building a competitive product portfolio thanks to its recentannouncementsof theGoogle Home MiniandMax....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Why logos on the front of phones need to go. Maybe July 08, 2025 In the race to make more edge-to-edge displays on smartphones, we’ve seen some of those devices ditch the familiar company logo on the front of the device. The just announcedSamsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plusare just two examples of this trend for Android smartphones, even as LG still managed to squeeze a logo on theLG G6....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Withings will join Nokia for an ‘exciting’ keynote announcement at MWC June 05, 2025 Smartphones normally take center stage atMWC, but that doesn’t mean other product categories aren’t well represented. Samsung is expected to unveila new tablet, Lenovo might reveal newMoto Modsfor itsMoto Zline of phones, and of course, plenty of companies are going all-in with wearables this year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi matches Samsung’s market share in India, ships record 9.2 million phones in Q3 2017 June 19, 2025 It’s beenon the cardsfor a while and now it’s finally happened.Samsung’s monopoly of the smartphone market in India has officially ended, with China’sXiaomidrawing level on market share. That’s according to new statistics fromIDC, which peg both Xiaomi and Samsung at 23.5 percent for the third quarter of 2017....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Mi Band 2 comes with an OLED screen, it’s still darn cheap August 01, 2025 Remember Xiaomi’s dirt cheapMi Bandfitness tracker? It was followed by the Pulse variant that featured a heartbeat sensor. Now the Chinese brand has added a third product, dubbed the Mi Band 2, to its fitness tracker line-up. Mi Band 2 comes with roughly half-an-inch OLED screen that can display the time, steps, and heart-rate....