Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cyanogen ends OnePlus partnership, aims to work with bigger Chinese vendors August 24, 2025 Speaking in Beijing at the Global Mobile Internet Conference,Cyanogen’sKirt McMaster and Steve Kondik have been discussing the past and future of the fledgling company. After a fairly rocky relationship, it may not surprise you to hear that Cyanogen andOnePlusare parting ways, as Cyanogen looks for new hardware vendors to bring its custom Android OS to market....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 7 teardown reveals another not-easy-to-fix Samsung phone August 15, 2025 The team at iFixit have put their screwdrivers and plastic pry tools to work on the shiny newGalaxy Note 7and awarded the phone a rather dismal repairability score of 4/10. While this is admittedly animprovement over the Galaxy S7– which scored just 3/10 – the Note 7 has the same easy-to-break and hard to replace curved display glass and having glass on both the front and back “makes for double the crackability”....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gionee launches its first VR-ready smartphone, the S6 Pro, in India July 19, 2025 Looking to strengthen its S Series portfolio, Gionee has announced the launch of the Gionee S6 Pro in India, entering the Virtual Reality space with its first ever phone for VR enthusiasts. TheS6 Pro was first unveiled in China in Junethis year. The S6 Pro boasts of a metallic unibody design with a 3D camber line back and sports a 5....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gionee unleashes eight near bezel-less phones, including M7 Plus, M7, S11s, and more June 27, 2025 Chinese manufacturer Gionee is going all-in onnear bezel-lesssmartphones. The Shenzen-based OEM held an event on Sunday where it unveiled a staggering total of eight top-to-low-tier phones for its home market, all of which feature elongated “FullView” displays. Leading the charge is Gionee’s M7 range, with the faux-leather-backed M7 Plus (above) emerging as the highest spec device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Assistant speaker for $2,250, anyone? July 29, 2025 Bang and Olufsen Audio hardware maker Bang and Olufsen has announced a pair of new Google Assistant-powered smart speakers (viaVenture Beat). TheBeoSound 1andBeoSound 2will go on sale this fall for $1,750 and $2,250 respectively, featuring an otherworldly look that stands out in the smart speaker world. Both devices feature a similar cone-shaped, aluminum construction, with the BeoSound 1 measuring 16....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google is now manually reviewing apps that are submitted to the Play Store! Jul 23, 2025 In a move that should benefit users and developers alike, Googleannouncedit began manually reviewing apps that are submitted to the Play Store. Up until now, Google relied on automatic review processes in order to cope with the massive number of apps submitted every day to the world’s largest app store....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel 3 eSIM will work on Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T (eventually) July 08, 2025 TheGoogle Pixel 3 and Google Pixel 3 XLincludeeSIM technology, which allows you to connect your device to a wireless carrier without using a physical SIM card. TheGoogle Pixel 2has the same technology. However, unlike the Pixel 2, the Pixel 3’s eSIM will work with any wireless carrier which has a system in place to utilize the technology, viaXDA Developers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google unveils OnHub: a $200 smart Wi-Fi router that’s controlled by an app July 10, 2025 Google’s goal is to keep users around the world connected to the Internet at all times, and a new announcement from the company makes that very apparent. Google has partnered with TP-LINK to launch a new, smarter and more secure Wi-Fi router called OnHub....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s new rules appear to be successfully purging the Play Store August 12, 2025 Google removed nearly 115,000 apps from thePlay Storein the first half of 2021, making for the first substantial decrease in the total number of Android apps in three years. Over 58,000 apps were pulled between January and April, and some 65,000 disappeared in May alone, according toSafeBettingSites, citing data from Google and analytics firms including App Annie, AppBrain, and Statista....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Great Big War Game - The sequel to Great Little War Game is even bigger and better than hoped for June 07, 2025 If you’ve ever played Great Little War Game then you’ll be delighted to hear that the developers, Rubicon, have released a sequel which is bigger and better than the addictive first game. The original Great Little War Game was so popular amongst mobile gamers that Rubicon decided they would release a bigger and better edition, packed with even more features than the first....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Helpouts: A dissection - What went wrong? July 25, 2025 The downfall of the one-on-one tutorial platform really isn’t surprising. Despite many attempts, Helpouts never seemed to hit the mainstream. Let’s explore why. Google Search was simply better Sadly, the bottom line is that there wasn’t much on Helpouts that you couldn’t get for free on Google and YouTube with some simple searching....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s a sneak peek at ‘Bloom’ wallpapers on the Google Pixel 6 series August 23, 2025 We’ve already seen plenty of wallpapers associated withthe Google Pixel 6 series. Now, thanks to an APK teardown from9to5Google, we can add a few more to the pile. This time, though, things are a bit fancier. See also:Download all the Google Pixel wallpapers here...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s why we don’t see more PC and console games ported to Shield TV July 23, 2025 One of the more notable features about theNVIDIA Shield TV boxis the ability to play a host of exclusive games that were ported from PC or console. These titles include Resident Evil 5, Metal Gear Solid 2 HD, Tomb Raider, and Half Life 2....