Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Where is the best place to buy a Chinese OEM phone online? July 23, 2025 A popular question that we get asked here atAndroid Authorityis, where is the best place to buy a Chinese OEM phone? Maybe you want an OPPO handset or something from Xiaomi, Meizu or even THL, but where to get it? The answer to that question is simultaneously quite easy and quite hard!...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Black Shark global website now live, European launch incoming? July 26, 2025 TheXiaomi Black Sharkis one of manygaming smartphoneslaunched in 2018 thus far, offering the usual gaming trappings. That means a powerfulSnapdragon 845chipset, a button to enable performance mode, and an optional gamepad attachment. It’s largely been restricted to China, butMyDrivers(h/t:Gizmochina) has spotted a Black Shark global website (global....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 (64GB) sells out in under a minute August 14, 2025 Last year, Xiaomi released a tablet, fittingly called theMi Pad. The device was apparently enough of a success that a sequel was in order, and so last month the Mi Pad 2 released. Priced at 999 Yuan (approximately $156) the device had only 16GB of storage and ran Android....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact pre-orders available at UK’s Carphone Warehouse June 23, 2025 If you live in the UK, you’re able to now pre-order two of Sony’s recently announced smartphones, theXperia XZ1 and the XZ1 Compact. Carphone Warehouse has listed the Xperia XZ1 for the price of £599 without a contract, with shipments scheduled to begin on September 22....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You can buy this Galaxy S21 for $2,650, but you probably shouldn’t July 10, 2025 TheSamsung Galaxy S21is arguably one of thebest phones of 2021, and a big part of this is due to the $800 cheaper price tag. That makes it $200 cheaper than theGalaxy S20was at launch. Now, lesser-known smartphone brand SIRIN LABS Labs has launched the SIRIN LABS V3, which is literally the Galaxy S21 with security-focused additions and tweaks....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. You might soon be able to add music to your Instagram stories June 09, 2025 Some code discovered in theInstagramAndroid app points to the potential of a new feature: the ability to add popular music to your Stories, giving your short videos a soundtrack. If true, it could put Instagram Stories even further ahead of rivalSnapchat. The person who discovered the code is none other than Ishan Agarwal, viaTech Crunch....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 2020 smartphone silicon showdown: The most powerful phones of the year compared August 13, 2025 Better, stronger, faster. That is the mantra. And let’s not forget – more efficient! We got an idea of the level of performance and efficiency of2020’s best smartphonesback in 2019 when Arm announced the Cortex-A77. At the same time, the company also unveiled the Mali-G77 GPU....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. A letter to the manufacturers - here’s what we want to see in 2017 July 05, 2025 What a year, huh? 2016 was certainly a year to remember in the smartphone world.Samsunghad a major slip up with one of its flagships,Googlestarted making its own phones (and said goodbye to the Nexus line), and wefinallygot to see something promising come fromHTC....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. AKG headphones vs Fortnite V-Bucks: Which Note 9 pre-order offer is the best value? June 28, 2025 Amid the fanfare of a newGalaxy Note 9launch, Samsung is offering those who pre-order a choice: get some sweetAKG N60 NC headphones, or 15,000FortniteV-Bucks. So which one should you get? The headphones, duh. It’s nothing againstFortnite: it’s just the better deal. The economics Taking the headphones isn’t a better deal just because because the AKG N60 NC retails for $250-$300 (15,000 V-Bucks go for about $150)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Amazon Prime taking on Netflix with monthly subscriptions July 05, 2025 you’re able to now orderAmazon Primeas a monthly subscription with full access to its movie, music and TV show libraries, making it an even more direct competitor to Netflix. The subscription based streaming space has got its fair share of competitors already – HBO Now, Netflix, Hulu Plus – but none of them offer free two-day shipping in the world’s largest online marketplace....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 4 adds single sign-in, in-app billing and more August 03, 2025 Google is giving developers a new preview version ofAndroid Wear 2.0to test out. This is the fourth developer build for the smartwatch OS, and comes 2 1/2 months since the release ofDeveloper Preview 3. One of the biggest features of Android Wear 2.0 is the ability for smartwatch apps to install without the need for a smartphone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ASUS ROG Phone 3 battery tested: Is it the new battery life champion? August 07, 2025 TheASUS ROG Phone 3houses a gargantuan 6,000mAh battery which is one of the largest on the market to date, and with good reason. The handset packs in a powerhouse Snapdragon 865 Plus processor, a zippy 144Hz AMOLED display, and is tasked with keeping gamers juiced up for those long play sessions....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Best of Android Mid-2020 winner plus your vote, and more tech news today July 02, 2025 1. The Best of Android: Mid-2020 winner The OnePlus 8 Pro was the Editor’s Choice winner for the Best of Android: Mid-2020 edition, beating out the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus. You can vote: 2. GPT3- Excitement GPT-3 is lighting up social media, the third generation of OpenAI’s Generative Pretrained Transformer....