Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Seabeard arrives to Android, feels a lot like a Nintendo game June 07, 2025 After hitting Apple devices last year, the highly popular Seabeard has finally arrived on Android! The game puts you in the role of a grandchild of Seabeard, who was more of a king than a pirate and helped unite the lands together with the formation of a kingdom called Accordia....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Senate bill would make Apple and Google loosen their grip on app stores July 21, 2025 Congress might come to your rescue if you’refrustrated with restrictive mobile app stores. A bipartisan group of Senators hasintroduceda bill, the Open App Markets Act, that would force Apple, Google, and others to remove key restrictions on portals like the App Store and Play Store....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Streaming trends in the new year: 5 things we hope to see in 2022 August 23, 2025 What can we predict in the way of streaming trends for 2022? We’ve seen two rather tumultuous years in the entertainment industry, as everyone continues to deal with COVID-19 and its effects on virtually every aspect of our lives.Netflix‘s bottom line has hardly been the most pressing pandemic concern, but we have seen major shifts in the streaming landscape as everyone adjusts to the new normal....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Study: Texting with periods can make you seem insincere June 20, 2025 It’s an effect we’ve all experienced but may have chalked up to over-analysis. Now, however, researchers at Binghamton University have concluded a study confirming that your neurotic fixation with the period at the end of that girl’s text message is justified. The study was a simple and performed on an admittedly small sample size of 126 undergraduates....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Galaxy S7 series is over 4 years old, but it just got an update June 20, 2025 Samsungannouncedearlier this year that it will be delivering three generations of Android version updates to a variety of devices. Unfortunately, the oldest phones and tablets included in this pledge only date back to 2019. So we’re quite surprised to see theGalaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edgenow receiving an update, according toSamMobileand users onReddit....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This is why I won’t be installing Facebook’s new app for TV July 12, 2025 So Facebook will soon be launching an app for Samsung Smart TVs, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV (don’t ask me where the Android TV app is). Considering Facebook’s increasing focus on video content and Mark Zuckerberg’s belief thatvideo is the future for the social platform, getting on the boob tube makes perfect sense....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. US carriers waive fees in response to Hurricane Maria and recent Mexico earthquake August 09, 2025 Even though it has already ravaged a number of Caribbean islands, Hurricane Maria remains a threat to impose more damage in the region. Not to be outdone, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico City and surrounding areas has killed at least 216 people. Both of these events have left these areas and the people who live in them in ruins, and US carriers have stepped up to make it easier to contact friends and loved ones in affected areas....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. WePay adopts Google Wallet API for online purchases August 08, 2025 TheGoogle WalletInstant Buy API may not be all that new, it was launched back in 2013, but it could be the key to expanding Google’s mobile transaction service from tapping your phone in stores to buying goods from all around the world. WePay, an online payment API developer for businesses, has merged Google’s API into its own back-end system, opening up new ways to pay with Google Wallet....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. WhatsApp testing out Snapchat-like “Status” feature August 24, 2025 Facebook, the company which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, has found itself under public scrutiny over the last few months. The biggest social network in the world decided to straight up copy the features of its main competitor,Snapchat. It did so by introducingInstagram Stories, a direct Snapchat Stories competitor and then by testing“Messenger Day”within its messaging app, which works in a similar fashion....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. WWE Network has a free tier (Update: Peacock now has some WWE content) July 04, 2025 Original story –The pro wrestling organization World Wrestling Entertainment has a streaming service calledWWE Networkthat gives fans access to its content. Now, WWE has launched a completely free tier of that service, with lots of shows available to stream. Here are all the details on the WWE Network free version....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You told us: The efficiency vs horsepower debate has one clear winner June 20, 2025 Modern smartphones need an equal helping of efficiency and power. Most chips fromQualcomm,MediaTek, and others accomplish this to different degrees, whether they’re flagship gaming SoCs or affordable processors forbudget phones. But if you absolutely had to choose just one trait, would you want more horsepower or improved efficiency?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You won’t need Android TV to get a YouTube app on Chromecast July 11, 2025 The YouTube experience on earlierChromecast devicesis very basic, but it could become decidedly more sophisticated in the future.9to5Googlereaders have discovered that Google is testing a web-based YouTube ‘app’ for Chromecast that significantly expands the functionality without making you spring for an Android TV-based device like thenewest Chromecastor a smart television....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ZTE sending out invites to announce the Axon 7 July 27, 2025 Just under a year ago, a small news explosion rocked the mobile world when a phone, claiming to be a high-end product,was announced with no familiar, discernible OEM behind it. The offering, called “Axon Phone”, was eventually revealed to originate from none other than China’s ZTE, a company that was – at the time – more readily associated with lower-end products in the USA....