Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android 8.0 Oreo users can access the LastPass public beta with Autofill APIs August 13, 2025 In case you have been outside all day celebrating the solar eclipse, you might have missed the fact that Google has officially launched, and named,Android 8.0 Oreofor a number of Pixel and Nexus devices. Now LastPass, one of the most popular password managers, has launched a public beta for those first Oreo users....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Authority this week – August 07, 2025 July 13, 2025 Hello Android fans! CES 2016 brought us a ton of exciting devices, and here’s the most important news of the week! HUAWEI made a big splash in Vegas, showing the new Mate 8, GX8, and variants of the HUAWEI Watch; HUAWEI’s sub-brand HONOR was also present with the new HONOR 5X....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android N Preview 3 introduces sustained performance mode June 17, 2025 Android N’s 3rd previewis mostly about adding a few coats of extra polish to the mix, but that doesn’t mean thereisn’t anything new. For example, the latest preview introduces a sustained performance mode that aims to make long-running apps run much more smoothly. Before we give you a laymen’s explanation of what sustained performance mode does, let’s start with a little background about how our SoCs work in situations where they are being pushed to the limit....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Q might introduce support for much more secure face recognition tech Aug 12, 2025 Plenty of Android smartphones support some type of face unlock feature, but unfortunately not many of them are all that secure. Phones that rely solely on the front-facing camera to recognize a user’s profileare much more easily fooledthan more advanced setups, such as Apple’s Face ID technology....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. As Net Neutrality nears its end, Verizon shows some customers data caps July 01, 2025 Net Neutrality– the idea that the internet should remain free, open, and treated as a public utility – is going to cease to be the law of the land in a few weeks. One of the major fears of the death of Net Neutrality is ISP’s like Verizon imposing usage caps on customers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Comcast announces some Xfinity Mobile throttling as if it’s doing us a favor July 23, 2025 Do you know aboutXfinity Mobile? It’s aVerizonMVNO that gets you unlimited nationwide talk and text and either $15 per GB of data or an “unlimited” plan for $45 per month (capped at 20GB). It’s all the Verizon speed and coverage you could want but through Comcast!...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cryptocurrency trading secrets can be yours with online courses for just $24 August 25, 2025 “Cryptocurrency” is a term that has become more and more mainstream in the past few months. Forms of digital money like Bitcoin, Ethereum and others have exploded in terms of their value. But figuring out what cryptocurrencies actually are, and more importantly how to trade and invest in them, is something that can be highly confusing to the average layman....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S22 series could have Snapdragon in India (Update: Confirmed) August 09, 2025 Update, June 24, 2025 (12:35 PM ET):Now that the Samsung Galaxy S22 series is official, we can 100% confirm the rumor described below is true. If you buy a Galaxy S22 device in India, you will receive the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 model, not the Exynos 2200 model....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S7 v S7 Edge battery life showdown June 30, 2025 Arguably the biggest criticism of last year’s Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge was the measly battery size, which – coupled with the fact that it was the first Galaxy S handset where the battery was non-removable – meant you needed to have a power source near almost all the time....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google announces ‘Made for India’ initiative to showcase apps optimized for Indian market June 30, 2025 At the first ever Google Play App Excellence Summit in India, Google today announced its new ‘Made for India’ initiative. As part of the initiative, Indian developers can apply for a chance to have apps that are specifically optimized for the Indian market to be showcased on the Google Play Store in India in a special section....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Lens is much easier to use with the Pixel 3 August 25, 2025 At today’s hardware event, the Silicon Valley company briefly talked about new Google Lens features coming to thePixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. And while the search giant kept the Google Lens portion of the presentation pretty short, they skipped over some pretty cool new functionality....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Photos storage: Here’s what you need to know June 14, 2025 Google Photos has long been a free and easy way to keep all of your pictures in one place. For years, you could store all of the high-quality images you wanted, especially as a Pixel owner. Now, things are changing, and Google is doing away with its unlimited storage....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel Stand review: The best accessory Google has ever made June 10, 2025 What is aGoogle Home, really? If you think about it, the Google Home is just a way for Google’s virtual assistant to express itself. Assistant can live in speakers and headphones,smart displaysandsmartwatches, but the core function of theGoogle Assistantis to always be there when you need it....