Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR Band 6 review: Attractive, affordable, and shallow August 11, 2025 Honor Band 6 What we like What we don’t like The HONOR Band 6 is anaffordable fitness trackerfrom HONOR that boasts a large screen and basic smartwatch features. With an SpO2 sensor and stress management tools, it offers more than the bare-bones experience for those looking to improve their health....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to become an Associate Android Developer, and is it worth it? July 01, 2025 Associate Android Developer is a certification from Google that may enhance your career as a developer. In this post, we’ll explore why and how to go about taking it. Developing Android apps isn’t particularly hard. The hard part is developinggoodAndroid apps, and proving your ability to do that to clients....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to use recycler views July 21, 2025 The recycler view is one of the most versatile and useful views in Android development. It can essentially form the backbone of an entire UI. Recycler view is similar to a list, but rather than simply displaying images and text in a straight line, it can store entire multimedia layouts. Defining the layout for each row once will make you able to reuse it over and over, and display different information....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC will have a Snapdragon 835 flagship later this year July 17, 2025 HTC announced its high-endU Ultrasmartphone a few weeks ago, which is powered by the Snapdragon 821 chipset, and not the latest Snapdragon 835. But fear not, HTCfans. It looks like the company still has plans to announce a device with Qualcomm’s latest processor this year, just not atMWC 2017....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI has launched two smartwatches, but its CEO still doesn’t know what they are for July 08, 2025 HUAWEI has launched twoAndroid Wearsmartwatches so far; theHUAWEI Watchin 2015 and more recently theHUAWEI Watch 2. Yet, the current leader of the company doesn’t seem to be convinced that the smartwatch industry is going to be successful. According to theSouth China Morning Post, Eric Xu Zhijun, HUAWEI’s rotating CEO, was quoted as saying, “I am always confused as to what smartwatches are for when we have smartphones....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI lashes out at US government, calls backdoor allegations illogical July 23, 2025 Update, August 18, 2025 (6:06AM ET):HUAWEI is mega upset over allegations made by US officials that it has secret backdoors into mobile networks around the world. The company has issued a strongly-wordedstatementcalling the US government’s allegations illogical and stigmatizing. It has also criticizedTheWall Street Journalfor publishing the original story mentioned below....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI shipped over 20 million HONOR handsets in H1 2015 June 10, 2025 HUAWEIlaunched its HONOR brand of smartphones to help break away from the perception of being just another low-cost Chinese manufacturer and the tactic seems to have worked. The company has shipped over 20 million HONOR branded smartphones so far this year, resulting in a revenue of $2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. If you want people to use your navigation gestures, Google, make them better August 21, 2025 Earlier this week, we found out thatGoogle has a new planwhen it comes toAndroid 10navigation gestures. That plan is to force OEMs to bury their own navigation gestures deep in Android settings and keep Google’s options front-and-center. This means users will only have two apparent options for navigation when they first boot up a new smartphone: the traditional three-button system we’ve known for years andthe new systemwith a slim horizontal line at the bottom of the display that relies completely on swiping gestures....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Is there a new king of affordable handsets? BLU Life One X vs Moto G (2015) July 13, 2025 There has never been a better time to purchase a budget-friendly smartphone than right now. As it turns out, all four major mobile service providers in the United States have almost completely done away with the standard two-year service agreements, this is giving customers more reason to go for inexpensive handsets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. It’s time: Google should require two years of updates for every Android phone June 19, 2025 When OnePlus said theNord N10and N100 would only getone major OS update, people were understandably livid. It wasn’t just that it would leave buyers running an outdated Android release well before the hardware was obsolete — it’s that OnePlus had no qualms about offeringtwo years or moreof updates for its higher-end devices....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Latest Galaxy Z Fold 3 leak spills surprising camera specs July 29, 2025 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3leaks have been coming in thick and fast recently. We’ve seen plenty of renders of the foldable with few mentions of specs. Now,91Mobilesand tipster Yogesh have spilled details on the phone’s alleged camera and storage specs. While the Galaxy Z Fold 3 might flaunt a redesigned rear camera array, changes over theGalaxy Z Fold 2might only be skin deep....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG Nexus supposedly pictured in the wild July 07, 2025 Google has long been rumoured to be making two newNexusdevices to debut alongsideAndroid Mlater this year and the smaller of the two, which should be made by LG, has allegedly been captured in the wild. Thanks an image posted in the nexus Indonesia Google+ community, we may have our first look at thenew Nexus 5in all its glory....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG V40 specs leaked, launching early October June 15, 2025 The LG V40 specs have been leaked in full and the successor to theLG V30looks set to once again please audio fans while skimping on a few important features.Android Authorityhas seen a specs sheet for the V40, codenamed LG Storm Plus, and can confirm several of the rumored details floating around including the presence of five cameras....