Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Nougat kind of arrives on the Nexus 5, if you’re bold July 21, 2025 Although there’s a lot of community affection for theNexus 5, many users were dismayed to learn that it would not be receiving Android Nougat. However, in this age of constant modding and customizing, it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a way to run Nougat on their beloved Nexus 5… and it turns out that time was quite short indeed....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. App Review: The Simpsons Tapped Out June 08, 2025 The Simpsons Tapped Out Game Play The Simpsons Tapped out is a surprisingly easy game to play. It falls into the genre of a construction simulation game. Much like Sim City, gamers will rebuild the city of Springfield after Homer finally screws up at the power plant bad enough to blow up the whole town....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Aren’t flagship phones just status symbols? July 31, 2025 When you think about it, $700 or more is an awful lot to spend on a flagship phone. That amount is verging on a nice little vacation, or a deposit on a car. For this money, not only do consumers expect top of the line hardware, but also the best consumer experience and association with a superior brand....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ARM announces 32-bit Cortex-A32 for wearables and IoT July 22, 2025 Today,ARMhas announced its latest Cortex processor, the Cortex-A32, offering wearable and rich embedded processor manufacturers a new upgrade path over the older Cortex-A5 and A7 CPU cores. The Cortex-A32 is ARM’s smallest and lowest powerARMv8-Aprocessor. You would normally associate ARMv8 with 64-bit computing, but unlike the company’s other ARMv8-A designs the A32 is 32-bit only....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bill Gates says losing mobile war to Android was ‘the greatest mistake ever’ July 28, 2025 Microsoft’s Bill Gates has revealed that the company losing to Android was “one of the greatest mistakes of all time.” TheMicrosoftfounder was speaking at an event hosted by a venture capital firm (h/t:TechCrunch), and it’s clear he hasn’t forgotten about the Redmond firm’s botched mobile strategy....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. BlueStacks X brings Android games to your browser through the cloud June 28, 2025 If you want to play Android games on your PC with a keyboard and mouse, few software systems outmatchBlueStacks. However, that software has some significant limitations. The latest version only works on Windows, for example, and you’ll still need a PC powerful enough to emulate the games you’d like to play....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Bose SoundLink 3 review July 26, 2025 Get the Bose Soundlink 3 on Amazon For a long time, filling a room with sound meant one thing: you had paid a lot of money and spent a lot of time setting up a stereo system. Then Bose came along and changed part of the equation. Yes, you still paid a lot of money, especially for the earliest Bose systems, but suddenly you could get room-filling sound without the enormous footprint that most stereo systems demanded....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Dads will be proud: Google Home command now turns on lights in just one room July 23, 2025 If you ask yourGoogle Hometo “Turn on the lights” — but don’t clarify in which room to do so — the usual action is forGoogle Assistantto turn on every light in your home. This gets the job done, for sure, but it’s terribly wasteful....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook wants to help blood donors in India connect with patients and hospitals July 15, 2025 To address India’s shortage of safe blood and to celebrate National Blood Donor Day, Facebook is taking initiatives to help locate nearby blood requests. Technology is a wonderful thing: we can store millions of photoswithout a physical hard drive,take DSLR-like photoswith our phones, and talk face-to-face with loved ones even from the opposite side of the earth....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 7 color comparison: gold, silver, black & blue June 20, 2025 Samsung just unveiled the latest addition to their popular Galaxy Note line, and while they decided to skip a number, the Galaxy Note 7 is actually the sixth generation of the series. As always, Samsung has a few color options for users to choose from, and we’ll be taking a closer look at these options in this Samsung Galaxy Note 7 color comparison!...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S6 Edge battery life review - 28 days later August 17, 2025 TheGalaxy S6 Edgemay tick a lot of boxes, but on paper, there’s at least one area where Samsung’s curved flagship could be undone: the battery life. The handset is powered by a 2600 mAh battery and unlike past Samsung devices, it’s not removable. Samsung claims the handset will survive an entire day in the right conditions, but just how good is the battery life?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google offering $350k in prizes through its new Project Zero hacking contest August 08, 2025 Are you the type that can hack a smartphone? Are you interested in winning up to $200,000? If you answered ‘yes’ to both of these questions, you should check out Google’s new Project Zero hacking contest. Google, along with plenty of other major tech companies, already have a number of vulnerability rewards programs put in place, but one more can’t hurt....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel Buds 2 hands-on: The best earbuds I’ve not listened to August 06, 2025 Update August 24, 2025 – See ourfull review of the new Pixel Buds (2020). Google is taking a truly wireless swing at bat with the newPixel Buds 2. They won’t be out until Spring next year — which sucks — but we got a chance to go hands-on with them and liked what we saw....