Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Poly API: Retrieving 3D assets for your VR and AR Android apps July 02, 2025 Do you have a great idea for aVirtual Reality(VR) orAugmented Reality(AR) mobile app, but no idea how to bring your vision to life? Unless you’re anAndroid developerwho also happens to be an experienced 3D artist, then creating all the assets required to deliver an immersive, 360 degree experience, can be a daunting process....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Qualcomm says Apple gave its trade secrets to Intel, has proof June 18, 2025 Despite the fact that the chipsets in iPhones are createdin-house at Apple, the company still uses third-party chips for things like smartphone modems. For years,Qualcommwas the sole provider of modem chips for iPhones, butApple switched exclusively to Intelearlier this year — a big loss for Qualcomm....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Qualcomm will dish out custom CPUs for laptops next year July 15, 2025 Qualcommannounced a dealto purchase chip design companyNuviaearlier this year, with the company founded by influential Apple and Arm engineer Gerard Williams III. At the time of the deal’s announcement, Qualcomm said Nuvia’s CPUs would land in flagship phones, laptops, and more. Now, the San Diego company has just announced that it has completed the acquisition, but it also revealed a major plan as a result of the deal....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Roku and Google arguing, could result in YouTube TV removal from Rokus (Update) August 18, 2025 Update: August 07, 2025 (9:20 AM ET): Roku and Google havefailed to come to an agreement. As a result, YouTube TV is no longer available to download from the Roku channel store. Original article: August 04, 2025 (10:54 AM ET): Roku is, by far, the market dominator when it comes to media streamers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Rumors abound that Motorola is laying off half its Chicago workforce (Update: layoffs confirmed) August 09, 2025 UPDATE 31-05-2025, 12:55 P.M. EST:Android Authorityreceived a statement from a Motorola/Lenovo representative about these layoff allegations: It appears that yes, a layoff at the Chicago Motorola Mobility office occurred. The statement’s wording of “this did not impact half of our workforce there” is a bit confusing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung apparently wants to cut costs on cooling tech for the Galaxy S22 series June 30, 2025 Samsung apparently wants to save costs on heat dissipation tech for theGalaxy S22series. According to anew rumorvia tipsterFrontTron, the company may not use vapor chamber cooling on the new flagships. The mobile team over at Samsung reportedly wanted to use vapor chamber cooling alongside the newExynos chip with the AMD GPUto improve performance and reduce throttling....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy S10 series to get Mate 20 Pro’s quirkiest feature? July 01, 2025 TheHUAWEI Mate 20 Prodelivered a rather unique feature inreverse wireless charging, allowing you to wirelessly charge other gadgets with the phone. Now, it’s claimed that Samsung’sGalaxy S10series could be next to offer the feature. Word of Samsung’s flagship range gaining the feature came viaGizmodo UKlast week, citing a source at a “major tech retailer....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy S10 Snapdragon vs Exynos: A lesson in benchmarking June 27, 2025 Most customers won’t have a choice between theQualcomm Snapdragon 855orSamsung Exynos 9820version of the newGalaxy S10 range. Regardless, it’s still intriguing to figure out what differences, if any, there are between the two chips powering one of this year’s undoubtedly most popular smartphones. We’ve already speculated on performance based on what we know about key SoC components, including the latestCortex-A76 big CPU coreandMali-G76 GPUfrom Arm....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy S8 price and color options leak, Sony to supply some batteries June 15, 2025 We have already seen a fewimages of Samsung’s upcoming flagship devices, so we have a good idea of how they will look. But now we also know three colors the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus will come in and what they will retail for, thanks to a Ukranian retailer that recently divulged the info....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 may have emerged in a tiny image July 08, 2025 You might not have to wait untilUnpacked on August 5to know what Samsung’sGalaxy Z Fold 2will look like. A tiny image posted onWeibo(viaIshan AgarwalandIce Universe) appears to show a rendered press image of the next-generation foldable. The picture lines up with past rumors, including a relatively uninterrupted folding screen (reportedly 7....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s future foldables could feature quirky rotating cameras July 27, 2025 Samsungis working on a foldable phone design with a rotating camera stalk, according to a newpatentfiled to WIPO. Spotted byMySmartPrice, the patent published this week showcases Samsung’s potential solution to the camera placement woes inherent in foldable phones’ design. According to drawings, the stalk placed on the phone’s top corner or outside edge rotates 180-degrees to face the screen or rear of the foldable phone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung’s new Facebook picture is its biggest foldable phone tease yet July 26, 2025 Samsung has once again teased its foldable smartphone, this time via the profile picture of theSamsung MobileFacebook page. The image is of a folded Samsung logo, and judging by the number of likes and comments attached to the post, it has got people pretty excited....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Sony CEO shoots down rumors regarding sale of their mobile business, in-house chipset June 06, 2025 Last month, Sony CEO Kazou Hirai talked about the company’swillingness to “consider alternative options”if their mobile business didn’t see profit in 2016. Some interested parties read into this somewhat vague statement that Sony was considering selling their mobile business entirely. In an interview this week, the CEO affirmed that Sony has no intention of making such a sale, and he also put rumors to rest regarding the possibility of Sony making their own chipset in-house....