Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google finally brings its Phone and Contacts apps to the Play Store (Update 2: back up) July 27, 2025 Update #2, December 8: Google’s Phone and Contacts apps are now again available in the Play Store (for Nexus devices only). Update:For some reason, Google has now pulled the apps from the Google Play store… we’ll update as soon as we learn more....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel 4 doesn’t work with some USB cables (Update: Google responds) June 04, 2025 Update, 10th January 2020:Google has responded after looking into the matter internally. The company confirms that the lack of charging and data via offending cables is intentional behavior with the Google Pixel 4. It is caused by cables that do not follow the official USB-C specification....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Play Games: Everything you need to know July 30, 2025 We’ve heard a lot about Google Play Games. It was rumored before Google I/O, announced at Google I/O and released a few short weeks later. Google Play Games has been out for a little while now and it’s about time we took you for a stroll through the app to show you what it’s really supposed to do....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Googler explains why Nexus phones won’t get Pixel fingerprint gestures June 07, 2025 The grand conspiracy to leave Nexus owners high and dry when it comes to fancy newGoogle Pixel featureslike fingerprint gestures has finally been exposed. But as with most conspiracies, the explanation is far more pedestrian than the conspiracy nuts would have you believe. Far from an elaborate scheme to force Nexus owners into themore expensive realm of Pixel phones, the simple answer seems to be that bringing fingerprint gestures to the existing Nexus devices just wasn’t a priority at Google, even though it is apparently “doable”....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here are the alleged specs and prices for the Xiaomi Mi TV Stick July 26, 2025 In May, Xiaomiconfirmedthe existence of the Mi TV Stick, a streaming dongle that would likely compete withAmazon’s Fire TV Stickwhen it launches. Now, a couple of retail listings and a leaked image on Reddit have revealed the apparent specs and prices for the upcoming device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC’s unexpected surprise is… a U Ultra version covered in sapphire August 03, 2025 Speculation about today’s “unexpected surprise” from HTCturned out to be overly optimistic. Afterthe teaser that HTCTaiwan put up last week, some werehopingto see the fabled – and so far, entirely unconfirmed – HTC11. The surprise is actually a premium version of the HTCU Ultra that is covered in sapphire....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI and UC Berkeley forge basic AI research alliance June 21, 2025 Huaweihas pumped $1 million in funding into a basic research partnership with the University of California in Berkeley with the goal of advancing artificial intelligence. The partnership will bring together HUAWEI’s AI researchers and the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab to collaborate across machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, deep learning, and robotics....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI executive arrested in Poland over spying allegations (Update: employee fired) June 30, 2025 Update, 04-08-2025, 04:16 AM ET:HUAWEI has fired the employee recently arrested in Poland charged with spying for the Chinese government. According toCNN, HUAWEI said in a statement Saturday it had fired the employee, which China’s Polish embassy named as Wang Weijing, for bringing the firm into “disrepute....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI P30 series absolutely smashes P20 series sales record July 30, 2025 Huaweiis expecting a massive sales drop following the U.S. trade ban against it, but it looks like itsP30series has enjoyed record sales since its March reveal. The HUAWEI P30 series has hit 10 million units sold in 85 days, the Chinese manufacturer announced in a press release. So how does that compare to the P20 series?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI reveals Nova 2 and Nova 2 Plus with dual rear cameras and 20 MP front camera June 12, 2025 Huaweihas just announced the Nova 2 (below) and Nova 2 Plus (above) at an event in China. HUAWEI confirmed last week that the handsets would beunveiled soon, and now we’ve got all the details. Sequels to the originalNova and Nova Plusfrom 2016, the new devices once again come in metal unibodies with almost identical specs: the major differences between them lie in the display size and the battery, with the Plus model having the larger of both....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Is this the Google Pixel 4a? Alleged real-life images leaked July 31, 2025 The Pixel 4a — Google’s rumored upcoming mid-range phone — may have appeared in a new set of leaks. Alleged photos of the smartphonematching previous renderswere posted onTwitterandRedditover the weekend. The images show a phone with a punch-hole on the top-left corner of the display, a first for Google phones....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Just how small is the OPPO Find N? Here are some comparison pics! July 26, 2025 Today, OPPO took the wraps off its very first foldable phone: theOPPO Find N. Like the Galaxy Z Fold series, the phone can be used like a “normal” smartphone and then opened like a book to create a small tablet. See also:The best foldable phones you can get...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Kickstarter campaign for what could be the world’s fastest charging battery pack July 14, 2025 The key stats about this battery pack are: It has a 6000 mAH capacity, which uses Metal Organic Frameworks (MOF) technology, more about that in a moment; it uses a 140W charger which means it can be fully charged in 30 minutes and store a full charge for a Galaxy S6 in just 9 minutes; the battery can sustain this level of performance over 1000 charge cycles, that’s 2-3 times the current industry standard....