Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Crowdfunding project of the week: POP is a power bank that sticks to your phone August 16, 2025 Welcome to your new crowdfunding project of the week! In this article series we aim to highlight some of the hottest products being featured in crowdfunding sites likeKickstarterandIndiegogo. Today we are taking a look at POP. Let’s dig right into the details....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Essential Phone will gain double tap to wake, EIS, and more features in future updates August 14, 2025 The team behind theEssential Phonehas been good with giving its customers a lot of contact and feedback with its regular bi-weekly AMA sessions on Reddit. The latestsuch session was held this weekand Essential team members confirmed it was working on a number of new features that will be rolled out in future updates....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S6 to have user un-installable bloatware, Material Design improvements, and more August 04, 2025 Touchwiz’s biggest critics have been waiting years for Samsung to get with the program, in terms of better optimizing the UI and removing extra “junk”. In the past few years we’ve heard more than one rumor about how Samsung will slim down Touchwiz, only to walk away disappointed in the end....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Sport smartwatch renders leak (Update: More renders, more colors) June 26, 2025 Update, July 27, 2025 (11:28 AM ET):The leaked render of the supposed Samsung Galaxy Sport smartwatch (seen above) was our first look at what the upcoming wearable might look like. Today, we have some new leaked renders from a new source (Tiger Mobiles) that give us a better idea of what Samsung could have in mind for the activity-focused device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Global smartphone shipments might slip for the third year in a row July 28, 2025 According to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC)Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Trackerreport published yesterday, globalsmartphoneshipments are expected to fall 1.9 percent compared to 2018. If the prediction holds true, this will mark the third straight year of decreasing shipments. Based on the report, shipments in the first half of 2019 will decrease 5....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gmail finally lets you decide what happens when you swipe left or right July 03, 2025 Up until now, the only swipe action you could take on emails from the conversation list was archive. That finally changes today asGmailnow lets you customize what happens when you swipe left or right on an email, reportedAndroid Police. Once you open the app and go to Settings, you then press General settings....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google is pushing Fuchsia OS to the original Nest Hub June 18, 2025 Google’sFuchsia OShas finally arrived on one of its products, but it’s not a Pixel, Pixelbook, or Chromebook. Instead,9to5Googlereports that Fuchsia OS is now rolling out to the first-generationGoogle Nest Hub. The rollout hints at the beginning of a wider public rollout of Fuchsia OS to Google devices....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google partners with Pluto TV to bring 300 free channels to Google TV August 04, 2025 Wefirst heardabout Google being in talks to bring free ad-supported TV content toGoogle TVa few months ago, and it looks like those discussions have resulted in a variety of new content officially coming to the platform. Google announced in ablog postyesterday (h/t:XDA-DevelopersandProtocol) that it’s teamed up with Pluto TV to bring over 300 free TV channels to devices running the Google TV platform....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel 2 ditching 3.5 mm headphone jack, if these CAD renders are accurate August 19, 2025 Leaks about most Android devices usually pop up left, right, and center months before they’re announced. This isn’t the case for Google’s Pixel line, however: the rumors we’ve seen so far are extremely limited, both in number and content. That being said, today we’ve gotten a glimpse of what the two new Pixel phones may look like, thanks toGear Indiaand leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer, better known by his Twitter handle —@OnLeaks....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Wallpapers update delivers a new bunch of delightful backgrounds June 11, 2025 We wrote aboutGoogle Pixel 3 wallpapersrecently and you all seemed to enjoy them, so here are some more backgrounds for ya. Google has updated its dedicated Wallpapers app with a feast of new images (viaPhoneArena), and you can get them on any Android phone running 4.1 Jelly Bean and up (though certain functionality will require a later version)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gorilla Glass Victus brings 2-meter drop protection, doubles scratch resistance August 02, 2025 Gorilla Glass-maker Corning typically only announces a new iteration of its device protection glass every couple of years. These announcements historically occur when a major breakthrough is achieved. These typically occur in either scratch resistance or drop protection – the twin pillars of mobile glass – but never both....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Hatch, a spinoff of Rovio, will bring free streaming games to Android in 2017 July 27, 2025 A new company that has been spun off from Rovio, the creators of theAngry Birdsfranchise, wants to offer a way for Android device owners to stream and play games without downloading them onto their phones. The new company, Hatch, says the service will also include some unique social features....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC (re)confirms Android 7.0 Nougat is coming to HTC10, One M9 and One A9 August 09, 2025 HTC wants to let you know it is still planning to update theHTC 10,HTC One M9andHTC One A9toAndroid 7.0 Nougat. Now that it’s officially called that. HTCsent thesame tweeta month ago, back when the next version of Android was still known as Android N....