Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Popular alternative app store Aptoide suffers major data breach July 09, 2025 TheGoogle Play Storeis the app store of choice for the vast majority of Android users, but the open nature of Android means you can download apps fromother servicestoo. Aptoide is one of the more prominent third-party app repositories, but it’s reportedly suffered a massive security breach. ZDNetreports (h/t:XDA-Developers) that a hacker leaked details pertaining to 20 million Aptoide users in a hacking forum....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: HUAWEI Watch 2 will offer LTE connectivity, sportier look June 29, 2025 We’ve been talking aboutAndroid Wear 2.0for a very long time. Google announced the big OS refresh back at Google I/O 2016, and we’re still waiting on an official launch. Whilerecent rumorspoint to a February 9 release date, we’re also expectingtwo new Android Wear 2.0-powered devices from LG and Google, dubbed the LG Watch Sport and LG Watch Style....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung may share its foldable phone displays with rivals July 03, 2025 You might not have to buy aGalaxy Z FoldorZ Flipto get one of Samsung’s foldable displays. According toArs Technica, Korean industry publicationETNewsclaims that Samsung is ready to offer its folding screen technology to companies other than the company’s own mobile unit. Samsung will reportedly make 1 million foldable displays available in both horizontal folding (Galaxy Z Flip) and vertical (Z Fold) designs....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Snapdragon 778G announced: A solution for today’s chip shortage? July 04, 2025 Qualcommannounced theSnapdragon 780Gearlier this year, marking a major upgrade for the Snapdragon 700 series. Now, the company has announced another addition to the family in the Snapdragon 778G. And as the name implies, the new chipset has a lot in common with the previously announced SoC. The Snapdragon 778G packs the same octa-core CPU configuration as the previously announced SoC, featuring four powerful Cortex-A78 cores and four Cortex-A55 cores....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The foldable phone can’t come soon enough for Samsung June 25, 2025 Samsung just released itsearnings guidancefor the second quarter of 2018. The exact numbers could change slightly when the final results come out later this month, but the company expects profits of 14.8 trillion won (about $13.2 billion). This is down from 15.64 trillion won (about $14 billion) in the last quarter....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The HONOR Magic is official and it looks stunning (Update: more pictures) July 25, 2025 HUAWEI hasbeen releasing teasersfor its upcoming “concept” phone, the HONOR Magic, for a little while now, but today, the teasing is over. The new phone is now official and it does indeed have a number of interesting features that make it stand out from the crowd....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The US government looks to extradite HUAWEI CFO arrested in Canada June 25, 2025 In a statement released earlier today and reported byReuters, the U.S. Justice Department said it will pursue the extradition ofHuaweichief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. The U.S. must submit an extradition request to Canada for the HUAWEI executive by January 30. A Canadian court then decides whether there’s enough evidence to warrant an extradition....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Type in 5 different languages at once with latest SwiftKey Beta June 20, 2025 SwiftKey has been on the news a lot as of late:it got itself in a bit of an awkward situationa few months ago and had to suspend its cloud syncing, and just a few weeks ago, it announced that thekeyboard will now be powered by a neural networkto improve suggestions....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Unity 5 game engine will get its last update in March, making way for Unity 2017 June 15, 2025 Mobile, console and PC game developers who work with theUnity enginewill see some changes in how it is labeled in the next year. The company revealed that the last major update for its Unity 5 engine cycle will be released in March 2017, and after that the next version will use a year-based date label, or Unity 2017....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Update: Korean government confirms Samsung’s Note 7 investigation results August 25, 2025 Update, February 6:Two weeks after Samsung finally announced what caused the Note 7 overheating incidents, Korea’s product safety watchdogrevealed the results of its own investigation(WSJ, paywalled), which was conducted in parallel with Samsung’s. Like Samsung’s report, the government investigation identified two distinct issues: excessive pressure generated by the battery casing (in case of the batteries supplied by Samsung SDI) and the lack of insulation tape due to a manufacturer error (for the batteries made by Amperex Technology)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Update: OnePlus 3 in Soft Gold now available in the US July 13, 2025 Original post (7/25):The OnePlus 3 is one of the best Android phones on the market, but despite the great specs, the phone has only been available in graphite so far. There have been rumors of other color – notably red and gold – and the rumors became reality when the OnePlus boss finally tweeted confirming that the new color may come in the second half of July....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. WhatsApp Pay gets closer to rollout in India June 14, 2025 WhatsApp’s long-awaited payments platform has reportedly received a regulatory nod in India. CalledWhatsApp Pay, the service is set to rollout in the country in a phased manner. Business Standardreports that WhatsApp has been given the go ahead for its payments platform by The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Wireless charging is finally beginning to live up to the hype June 19, 2025 Wireless charginghas been around for roughly a decade now, with Palm’s smartphones offeringTouchstone chargingback in 2009. It’s been almost a decade since then, and it’s now possible to find the tech on most big-namepremium flagshipsout there. Whether it’sLG,Samsung, orHuawei, chances are good that your next AAA flagship will have the technology....