Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You can now view the edit history of any user’s Play Store reviews August 20, 2025 Google now lets users view the edit history of app reviews in the Play Store. The change comes soon after the company beganadjusting the design of both the desktop and mobileversions of its app store, and it means anybody will be able to see the edits made to a particular review....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Alcatel OneTouch unveils its new Pixi 4 lineup at CES 2016 August 05, 2025 We’re on the floor here atCES 2016, whereAlcatel OneTouchhas just unveiled its new Android-powered Pixi 4 lineup. The Pixi 4 line consists of four budget-friendly devices in total – two compact smartphones, one phablet and a small tablet. Each one of these products are meant to be easy on the wallet while also offering up some impressive specifications and hardware....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. All-metal HONOR 7 leaks, launches June 24 August 07, 2025 HUAWEI may have announced itsP8 Litesmartphonein the US last weekbut the company’s not stopping there with a new leak showing off its upcoming HONOR 7 smartphone in pictures. The HONOR 7 has been rumoured numerous times and the latest leak shows off that the HONOR 7 will feature an all-metal build which is almost identical to the company’sAscend Mate 7 flagship phablet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Speed Booster: Freeing up CPU and RAM resources for crazy speed boosts July 01, 2025 There is a plethora of apps from the Google Play Store that enhance the speed of your Android phone. But, if you are looking for an app that speeds up your phone with a single tap of a button, I have one app in mind—the Android Speed Booster app could certainly do that job for you....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple’s latest earnings have good news for Google August 25, 2025 Depending on where one looks, Apple either hadthe best quartereverat the end of last year, or elsehas finally startedto come down fromits high horse of smartphone sales. While the companydidmanage to make moremoneythan ever before – $18billion dollarsin profit is no small sum – when details emerged about iPhone sales in an earnings call with CEO Tim Cook earlier this week, the big take away was that – save for China – iOS phone sales declined in every market....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Asus' education-focused Chromebooks should withstand some abuse July 11, 2025 WithCES 2019right around the corner, ASUS unveiled four new ruggedChromebookswhich include the company’s first Chrome OS-powered tablet. Starting with the tablet, the CT100 features a 9.7-inch display with QXGA resolution (2,048 x 1,536), a USB Type-C port, the hexa-coreOP1 processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and a 35Wh battery....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. BlackBerry Priv - Second opinion June 02, 2025 BlackBerry’s failure to keep up with the changing times resulted in a dramatic shift in fortunes for the once extremely popular smartphone manufacturer. The company has struggled to make an impact over the past few years in a market that it used to dominate, but BlackBerry is hoping to steady the ship with their first Android smartphone, a device that does a great job in combining BlackBerry’s signature features with current market trends....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Control Cars' Lightning McQueen and his legacy with your smartphone July 08, 2025 Sphero made plenty of headlines a few years ago when it released theBB-8 robot, a tiny replica of the droid featured in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Fast forward two years, and the company partnered up with Disney again to release a new robot based on Lightning McQueen, the main character in the Cars movies....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cyanogen reportedly planning “deep Cortana integration” for Cyanogen OS July 15, 2025 Back in April we first learned of Microsoft and Cyanogen’snew “strategic partnership”,which would see the inclusion of select apps like Bing, Skype, Office, and a few others. This only applied to the commercial Cyanogen OS and not CyanogenMod ROMs, though the announcement still was met with with mixed reception....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Essential VP: “We’ve always thought of building something premium" July 23, 2025 Last week, Essentialannouncedthe open beta forAndroid Oreofor its PH-1 smartphone— better known as theEssential Phone. The beta is available to anyone with the device in hand who, as Rebecca Zavin, vice president of software engineering at Essential, puts it, doesn’t mind that “things aren’t perfect.” I had the opportunity to speak with Zavin at Andy Rubin’sPlaygroundincubator, where much of the software development for the Essential Phone takes place....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Family of ‘Godless’ apps in the Google Play Store is capable of rooting Lollipop and older July 06, 2025 Well, this is slightly terrifying. A family of apps has been discovered that is capable of running rooting exploits that work on essentially any device running Lollipop or older versions of Android. What makes matters worse is that some of these apps are located in the Google Play Store, a place that is generally regarded as a haven of safe, well-vetted apps....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fitbit continues to dominate in the US wearable market June 21, 2025 Fitness trackers and smartwatches have been around for a few years now, and they show no sign of stopping. According to a recent survey released byKantar Worldpanel, 12.2% of all United States consumers own either a fitness band or smartwatch as of March 2016. This is nearly double the adoption rate in the EU4 (Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy), which totals about 6....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fitbit gets you out of your Hobbit hole with ‘Adventures’ July 24, 2025 So two brandnew Fitbit devicesare on the way, but the fitness tracking company isn’t settled with just making hardware advances. Fitbit wants to get you engaged in your workout, and they’re doing it through the oldest known method: the Call to Adventure. Taking a page out of the books of mythologies and storytellers of old, Fitbit has created a new set of elements inside the Challenges tab that will let you take on personal goals....