Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Report: HUAWEI is planning a stylus-equipped smartphone June 05, 2025 According to the Korean media,Huaweihas been mulling over development of a new super-size smartphone, complete with its own stylus technology. HUAWEI is said to have been in talks with a couple of digital stylus manufacturers in the country, implying that the growing Chinese smartphone company could launch a competitor to Samsung’s world renownedGalaxy Note seriesin the future....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Samsung Gear VR coming to T-Mobile on November 27th Jul 17, 2025 Just a few days agowe learned that Best Buyand a few other select retailers were now offering up theGear VRfor pre-order, with plans to start shipping on November 20th. NowT-Mobilehas joined in as the first carrier to get into the action. T-Mobile will offer theSamsungGear VR on November 27th both online and in select brick-and-mortar locations, priced at the same $99....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Siri could soon threaten Assistant reign as Google AI head joins Apple July 19, 2025 Apple has hired John Giannandrea, Google’s former head of search and artificial intelligence. According toThe New York Times, Mr. Giannandrea has been hired to run Apple’s machine learning and AI strategy and will report directly to Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook. The New York Timesarticle states that, during his time at Google, Mr....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Snapdragon 850 could power foldable Windows phone/laptop hybrids June 28, 2025 Windows Phone is dead, but that doesn’t mean you’ll never see the Windows operating system on a mobile device again. According to information onWinFuture, both Microsoft and Dell have plans to release a foldable smartphone/laptop hybrid running on the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 chipset. Of course, the latest-and-greatest mobile chipset is theSnapdragon 845, which powers flagship devices like theSamsung Galaxy S9, theOnePlus 6, and theHTC U12 Plus....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Stable Android 12 is live in AOSP, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get it today July 11, 2025 Last year, Google pushed out theAndroid 11stable release at the beginning of September. However, Android 11 wasn’t too drastically different from Android 10 (or Android 9 Pie, for that matter). As such, it was relatively easy for Google to stick to its proposed release schedule....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Dolphin team just fixed major issues affecting Exynos phones, more June 14, 2025 Dolphin is one of the most popularemulatorson Android right now, allowing users to play a variety of Nintendo GameCube and Wii titles on smartphones and tablets. However, one of the biggest challenges for the emulator’s developers is that Arm’s Mali GPUs tend to lag behind rivals in terms of driver support....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The jig is up: Samsung will terminate Bixby rewards points system June 06, 2025 Samsungsent out a notice today – viaThe Verge– that it will terminate its My Bixby Level service come this August. Is this a bad thing or a good thing? My Bixby Level is/was a points-earning service that rewarded users for using theBixby virtual assistant. By issuing commands, tweaking settings, and generally just toying around with Bixby, you earn points that can be redeemed towards various things, most notablySamsung Paypoints which could be put towards discounts and contest entries....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The new Pixel Stand delivers 23W of wireless charging for $79 June 25, 2025 Along thePixel 6andPixel 6 Pro, today Google introduced the new Pixel Stand, the second generation of its wireless charger. The new Pixel Stand works with Pixel phones and earbuds and many other Qi-compatible devices, though Google’s phones will enjoy both faster charging speeds and a host of exclusive features....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The NVIDIA Shield Tablet K1 successor looks to have been scrapped July 13, 2025 It looks like those of you holding out for an updatedNVIDIA Shield Tablet K1successor might be waiting forever. Despite rumors thatNVIDIA might drop a new tabletatIFA 2016, a dismissal letter has shown up at the FCC stating the device has been cancelled. The letter cites unnamed “business reasons”....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This might be the name of Qualcomm’s 2022 flagship phone chip August 13, 2025 Qualcomm’sSnapdragon 888 Plusis just weeks old, but that isn’t stopping rumors about its potential follow-up. Well-established (if not always accurate) leaker Ice Universeclaimsthe company’s 2022 flagship mobile chip will be called the Snapdragon 898 — and should have at least one clear advantage overthe 888 family....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This Pokémon Go update is showing us why ARCore is great Aug 06, 2025 Niantic is updating Pokémon Go with a new gameplay mode forARCore-enabled handsets. Called AR+, the new upgrade brings significant improvements to the way Pokémon behave and are caught. AR+ has been in development since last year but Niantic only officially announced the mode on itsblog recently....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This week in Apple: iPhone loyalty hits all-time low, 2020 iPhone details leak July 05, 2025 The big Apple news this week was pretty much every Apple news site and YouTube review channel getting their hands on physical mockups of the supposed iPhone 11 (or iPhone XI). We also heard some bad Apple news when it comes to iPhone loyalty and learned a lot of new details about the upcoming 2020 iPhones, including the advanced processor supposedly on the way....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Three men who pioneered Li-ion batteries will receive Nobel Prize in chemistry July 20, 2025 The three men most directly responsible for pioneering the lithium-ion batteries that power nearly every electronic device you own will win the Nobel Prize in chemistry this year (viaEngadget). The three scientists are John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University, and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University....