Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week! - Android Apps Weekly [306] July 04, 2025 Overdrive City Price:Free with in-app purchases Overdrive City is actually a city-building simulator with a focus on cars. You create a town, manufacture a bunch of vehicles, and compete in a career mode to create a massive motorsport franchise. The game includes cars from actual manufacturers, various customizations and performance tweaks, and there is a race mechanic....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 5 new shows and movies to stream this weekend: The Book of Boba Fett and more June 10, 2025 You might think that the first weekend of 2022 might be a slow one for new streaming movies and shows. You would be wrong. Not only are we getting a new Star Wars live-action series, but the fourth season of a major Netflix TV show....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. A Samsung phone leads in US customer satisfaction survey… again June 09, 2025 iPhones are everywhere you look in the United States, but American customers are the most satisfied with a phone from Samsung. TheGalaxy Note 5leads the user satisfaction ranking in the prestigious American Customer Satisfaction Index’s Telecommunication report. Every year, the University of Michigan-affiliated ACSI interviews roughly 80,000 Americans from all walks of life to gauge how happy they are with everything from mobile devices, to their banks or healthcare providers....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android malware installs decreased by nearly 50% in 2014, says Google June 04, 2025 Security isn’t to be taken lightly, especially when it comes to dealing with sensitive consumer information. To shed some light on its recent efforts, Google released a whitepaper earlier today that explains what exactly the Android security team has been working on in the past year....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple and Google top Best Global Brands in 2015 May 30, 2025 Interbrand has released its latest annual ranking of the world’s most valuable brands and for the third year running, Apple and Google have topped the list. The 2015 edition of the Best Global Brands reveals that technology brands show no sign of slowing down with six out of the top ten made up of technology companies....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple just bought the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business August 21, 2025 In apress releasetoday, Apple announced it has purchased the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business. The sale is valued at approximately $1 billion. As part of the sale, some 2,200 Intel employees will now become Apple employees. Apple will also now own multiple pieces of intellectual property related to smartphone modems as well as physical equipment and leases....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ASUS ZenFone 3 Zoom US launch delayed to add “better specs” June 23, 2025 In early January 2017, we got a chance to check out an early version of theAsus ZenFone 3 Zoomat CES. While we thought it was cool this phone had an optical zoom for its dual lens rear camera, much of the phone’s other specs were in the mid-range....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. AT&T says adding more data to a mobile plan for $10 extra is a ‘bonus’ for you June 18, 2025 Well, it would be awesome if AT&T didn’t add a new charge related to this “bonus” data. That charge is an extra $10 on top of your usual monthly bill, so this isn’t a bonus at all. However, no one seemed to notify AT&T that you’re able to’t call something a “bonus” if you charge additional money for it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Augmented reality models coming to Google Search (Update: Live now) July 06, 2025 Update, August 08, 2025 (10:37 AM ET):The new Search feature described below is now live for at least some smartphones. We were able to pull up the AR animals on ourGoogle Pixel 3— however, we were unable to get it to work on ourOnePlus 7 Proor ourGoogle Pixel 2 XL....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Blue Mail kicked off Play Store (Update: It’s back, plus Google statement) June 22, 2025 Update, July 15, 2025 (10:40 PM ET):Blue Mail ended up getting restored on the Google Play Store earlier today after15 hours of it being unavailable to download. According to Google, its removal had nothing to do with retaliation against Blix, as that company’s founder suggested on Twitter....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. December 2020 Android security patch out now (Update: Final Pixel 2 update out) August 13, 2025 Update, July 25, 2025 (12:45 PM ET):Yesterday, Google pushed out the December 2020 Android security patch to most of the active Pixel phones. However, the update for the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL was notably absent. Now, though, the update is available from the usual sources (OTA ishereand the factory image ishere)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Don’t believe the carriers, the 5G revolution is still years away June 04, 2025 3GPP — the partnership of telecommunications companies working on global standards — is in the final stages of narrowing down the specifications needed to establish the5G standard. The group recently came to aconsensus on the 5G New Radio Non-Standalone specificationessential for the adoption and rollout of the first 5G networks....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Download all the LG G6 stock wallpapers here June 29, 2025 In case you missed it, LG has finallyunveiledits latest flagship smartphone, theLG G6. Although the recent barrage of rumors and leaks have left little to the imagination from today’s reveal, this is still an exciting smartphone. Why, you may be asking? For starters, it comes with the latest and greatest specs under the hood, including a Snapdragon 821 chipset, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, microSD expansion, dual 13MP cameras and a big 3,300mAh battery....