Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ZTE’s new Quartz smartwatch brings Android Wear 2.0 for just $200 July 29, 2025 There are plenty of uses forsmartwatchesin many folks’ lives. Receiving notifications on your wrist without having to pull out your smartphone can be super handy at times, and most of them make decentfitness trackers, too. The problem is, most of the current crop of smartwatches on the market are just too expensive....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. (Update: huge demand in Canada too) Galaxy Note 7 breaks South Korean pre-order record August 25, 2025 Original post, August 9:Some were wondering whether or not the newSamsungGalaxy Note 7does enough differently from the Note 5 to justify a purchase. Well, pre-order data fromSouth Koreasuggests that the phone is going to be a hit, in fact it’s looking to be Samsung’s biggest launch in quite a long time....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 10 reasons to try Kotlin for Android development June 27, 2025 At the latest Google I/O conference,Google announced that Android Studio would soon support development with Kotlinout of the box. While this was big news, it may have left some people a little cold if they aren’t familiar with Kotlin. Kotlin is a popular programming language that will serve as an alternative to Java going forward....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. A look at Android Auto on the 2016 Chevrolet Cruze August 21, 2025 Google unveiled Android Autoway back in 2014 at its annual developer conference, and it tookalmost a yearafter its announcement for it to start showing up on the road. Now numerous car manufacturers have adopted Android Auto, and aftermarket head units are also available if you own an older car....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android 10 permissions: What’s new and how to use them! June 03, 2025 Android 10 introduced a ton of new features but one of the most important features was the changes to the permission system. Permissions have come a long way on Android and it’s a lot better now than the archaic days where we used to give apps a dozen permissions before downloading them....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Pay arrives in New Zealand but with very limited support July 20, 2025 I bring good news and bad news for all the Kiwis out there. The good news is that you may now use Android Pay to make purchases at locations like BurgerFuel and McDonald’s. The bad news is that only one specific card is supported by it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Angry Birds Stella POP! is Rovio’s first bubble shooter, now live in the Play Store July 01, 2025 Rovio, the developers behind the extremely popularAngry Birdsfranchise, has released its first bubble shooter game to the Google Play Store. The game is called Angry Birds Stella POP! and it combines all of your favorite female members of the Angry Birds team, including Stella, Poppy, Willow, Dahlia, Luca and even Gale....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ARM putting its chips on supercomputing July 18, 2025 We know and loveARMfor their smartphone processors, but it looks like the company is planning on branching out into some new territory. This week they announced that they have designed some new chip architecture that is specifically suited for use in supercomputers. What sets ARM apart has historically been the ruthless efficiency of of their processors....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Batman: The Telltale Series Episode 1 now available for free for Android August 20, 2025 Android gamers have been waiting patiently for Telltale Games to launch its highly anticipated Batman episodic series on their platform. Today, Telltale finally launched episode one of Batman: The Telltale Series, and it can be downloaded for free from theGoogle Play Store. Fans of the Dark Knight superhero will be able to check out the action-adventure series starting with episode one, Realm of Shadows....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best Buy already has a summary page up for the Google Pixel 4 July 16, 2025 We don’t expect theGoogle Pixel 4to land for at least another month, but that hasn’t stopped Best Buy from posting a brief summary page for the device. You can see the page for yourself by heading tothe Best Buy website. The page is pretty bare-bones for now, essentially giving a brief summary of what Google has already publicly revealed about the Google Pixel 4 and its larger sibling, the Pixel 4 XL....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Charge faster than the rest with the Reno4 Pro and SuperVOOC 2.0 from OPPO July 17, 2025 The race for the ultimate smartphone often finds itself hinging on battery life and recharge times. Great phones can find themselves lacking in the battery department, or they’re simply hindered by a slow charger. OPPO’s newReno4 Prohelps to turn that idea on its head thanks to a long history of innovation powered by SuperVOOC 2....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cortex-A72 powered Samsung Exynos 7650 and 7880 spotted June 06, 2025 Samsungis preparing a couple of new chips for its Exynos line-up of mobile SoCs, if reports from China are to be believed. The new processors, named the Exynos 7650 and 7800, will apparently be built from high-end ARM parts, including the latest Cortex-A72 CPU core and Mali-T860 GPU....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Could there be a global version of the Droid Turbo? July 25, 2025 The newly announcedMotorola Droid Turbois an exceptional smartphone, but its exclusive ties to US carrierVerizonhave left some feeling that they might miss out. However, the handset might be heading out to other countries around the world too, as an invite for a launch event has appeared in Brazil....