Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bendy and the Ink Machine getting full Android port on Dec. 21 (Update: Now available!) July 19, 2025 Update, June 22, 2025 (12:10PM):you’re able to now download Bendy and the Ink Machine from the Play Store. The game costs $6.99 and does not feature in-app purchases. Some players have complained of dropped frames during gameplay. Some players also complained of the ink color being purple instead of black....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best of Android: How we test audio June 11, 2025 We here at Android Authority have a special relationship with the audio site SoundGuys, who provide a lot of muscle for our testing efforts. When we want to test smartphones for audio performance, we let them go a little wild with it, and they use the same process to determine thebest smartphones for audioas they do for Best of Android....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Big Qualcomm fan? Check out the new Snapdragon Insiders community. June 19, 2025 As you’re reading this, I won’t pat myself on the back too hard for guessing you’re a tech enthusiast? But do you also yearn for a closer look at the technologies powering yourphone’s camerasandgaming capabilities? Do you prefer your smartphone powered by Snapdragon rather than some other chipset?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bixby is now available in four more languages, but there’s a big caveat August 19, 2025 Samsung’sBixbyvoice assistant hasn’t quite enjoyed the same success as other voice assistants, but that isn’t stopping the company from bringing improvements anyway. According toAllAboutSamsung(viaSamMobile), the company has quietly launched support for four new languages. These new languages are French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The assistant has also gained U....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Exclusive: Samsung store confirms Galaxy S21 launch date, colors, more (Updated) July 30, 2025 Update: August 17, 2025 (5:08 AM ET): The Samsung store has now confirmed the exact India sale date for the Galaxy S21 series as well as the fact that it’ll be powered by the Exynos 2100 in the country. We’ve updated the original article with these details....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fairphone 3 Plus launched: New modular cameras also pop into the Fairphone 3 July 08, 2025 Fairphone has today launched an updatedFairphone 3, with its new Fairphone 3 Plus, and moved both phones up to Android 10. The new 3 Plus gets an update to both cameras on the front and back: out with the older rear 12MP Sony IMX363 sensor and in with a new 48MP Isocell GM1 image sensor, while the front-facing camera jumps from an 8MP shooter to a 16MP sensor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. February Android security patch here, Pixel devices have OTAs and factory images June 04, 2025 It’s the first full week of February, so you know what that means: time for the monthly Android security patch. Right on time,Google just made the patch availablealong withfactory imagesandOTAsfor its line of Pixel smartphones. Recently, there have been a few months where not all of Google’s Pixel smartphones saw the latest update all at the same time....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Final Fantasy 7 finally going mobile! July 19, 2025 It has been an amazing week for Final Fantasy enthusiasts. Especially for Final Fantasy 7 fans, who will be granted a couple of requests they have been begging for for years. For starters, Sony and Square Enix totally won E3 with the announcement of a Final Fantasy 7 HD remake (can you even believe it’s actually happening?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Finally! Snapdragon 865’s CPU beats the Apple A13 June 24, 2025 It is often said that Apple’s processors are at least two generations ahead of the processors available for Android. Samsung, HUAWEI, and MediaTekall make powerful processorsfor Android devices including theSamsung Exynos 990and theMediaTek Dimensity 1000 5G. However Apple’s closest rival, in terms of performance, has often been Qualcomm with its Snapdragon range....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge given 24K gold treatment August 10, 2025 Gold plated smartphones used to be a luxury but over the past few years, we’ve seen more companies open up the treatment to anyone with a smartphone and lots of cash to burn. Samsung already offers achampagne gold versionof theGalaxy S6andGalaxy S6 Edgebut if you’re after something a little more bling, you can now give your new smartphone the 24 karat gold treatment....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google contractors allegedly targeted homeless people for facial data collection July 24, 2025 TheGoogle Pixel 4series will pack advanced facial recognition functionality, enabling users to quickly unlock their devices and more with a glance. We already know that the company employed people to capture scans of people’s faces for $5 gift cards to improve this face unlock technology. Now, theNew York Daily Newshas reported that Google was using some questionable methods in order to get these scans....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Inbox update sorts annoying Trello, Github notifications and more August 21, 2025 Project management appTrelloand the code collaboration platformGithubcan be pretty chatty with their notifications. That’s why Google has updatedInboxby Gmail so that the email app now groups together messages from these never-ending streams of notifications. The rest of your Inbox will thank you for the breathing room offered by this update, which also brings us some new features that are based on user feedback....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel 4 has a hidden High Brightness Mode: Here’s how you can access it August 12, 2025 The Google Pixel 4 andPixel 4 XLcan reach a peak brightness of 444 nits, according toDisplayMate. While this is pretty low compared to flagships like theGalaxy Note 10(1,308 nits) or theiPhone 11 Pro Max(1,290 nits), Google’s phones have one of the lowest screen reflectance on a smartphone display, making them decently legible in sunlight....