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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gesture-based interaction: the future of input technology? August 07, 2025 The way we interact with our devices determines more than what we can do with them. Smartphones became popular not just because of their ability to connect us with the rest of the world, but also because of the connections we built with them, thanks primarily to touch input. Just as the mouse accelerated portable computing, touch input accelerated the growth of smartphones and tablets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google faces lawsuit for allegedly abusing Play Store power (Update) June 18, 2025 Update: July 06, 2025 (2:30 AM ET): It’s official. A group of 36 states, including Washington D.C., have filed a new antitrust case against Google. Read itsfull statementat the link. Original article: June 29, 2025 (6 PM ET): Google might face yet anothercourt battleover its business practices....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google is letting their AI engine read romance novels to make it more conversational July 15, 2025 It’s an inventive and counter-intuitive solution to a complicated problem. Google’s AI engine ispretty smart, but one thing it’s not particularly good at is responding in a conversational style. Responses in the Google app, for instance, are very factual and to the point, but its sentences don’t exactly sing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel flagships lack 4K/60fps capabilities, but that could change soon August 24, 2025 Google’s recent Pixel flagship phones sport chipsets capable of 4K recording at 60fps, but we haven’t seen the search giant actually implement this video option. Fortunately, it looks like the company is working on a solution. XDA-Developersobtained the Google Camera 7.4 APK from aPixel 4a, and conducted a teardown of the app package....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Handcent SMS 4.0: Sending text messages by hand, the easy way June 02, 2025 Some people don’t really mind the stock messaging app on their phone and would prefer it as it is. But, of course, some want a messaging app that can do more than what stock has to offer. If you are one of the latter, I bet that you would love to have Handcent SMS....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s a first look at the OnePlus 2, courtesy of China’s TENAA June 29, 2025 We are edging ever closer to the launch of theOnePlus 2, so perhaps we shouldn’t be so surprised to see the handset passing through China’s TENAA certification center. The nice thing about TENAA is that it also gives us a look at the handset. From the images we can see the adoption of a new physical home button, which is presumably where the fingerprint scanner will be housed....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s how you will be able to tell whether a Note 7 is safe or not July 22, 2025 Samsung is in the midst of a massiveGalaxy Note 7 recall, but, with millions of devices on the market, some units are bound to fall through the net. Many owners – like thatFlorida man whose car was totaled in a fire– don’t even know they’re supposed to get their device replaced....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HMD Global raises $100 million to help Nokia expansion, now a ‘unicorn’ startup July 21, 2025 Finnish startupHMD Globalacquired the rights to sell Nokia-branded smartphones back in 2016after Microsoft dumped the brand. Since then, the company has brought Nokia back from the dead, as it were, with a continuing series ofwell-reviewedandpopularmobile phones. Now, to help expand the Nokia brand even further, HMD Global just raised $100 million in funding from multiple investors, “to scale business operations and fund the company’s growth in its second year,” according tothe press releaseon the matter....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How Motion Sense works on the Pixel 4 July 11, 2025 One of the most exciting features on thePixel 4is its radar. Positioned just to the right of the earpiece speaker, theSoli radarcreates a kind of field around the Pixel 4 that can detect movement. Depending on what’s happening at the time, your Pixel 4 can then predict what you want to do and help you do it....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to create Oculus Quest experiences in Unity August 13, 2025 Unityis an extremely powerful tool that makes Android game development easy and fun. Seeing as the Quest andQuest 2essentially run on a version of Android, it follows that we should be able to use Unity to build some cool VR experiences too. As it happens, Oculus Quest development is actually very simple and fun....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. India’s budget phone war continues: realme claims 210,000 realme 3 units sold in a day July 10, 2025 India is playing host to an all-out war in thebudget smartphonesector, withRealmeandXiaomiduking it out for supremacy. Now, the OPPO-backed brand has announced a noteworthy figure for the first day ofrealme 3sales in the country. The company revealed on Twitter that it sold over 210,000 realme 3 units during its first flash sale yesterday....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Inside Google Play: These were the top trending apps and games in January 2017 August 19, 2025 In the Android world, just about every month is full of great new app and game releases, and January 2017 was no different. We understand that it can be pretty difficult to keep track of them all, which is why we try pointing you in the right direction with our lists ofthe best new appsandgamesof the month....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Japan’s best smartphone is hiding an “awful” secret (hint: it’s Korean) June 23, 2025 Yesterday, April 8th, Japanese mobile carriers have finally announced the release of theGalaxy S6andS6 Edge. This potent pair of products have been off the radar from all carriers with onlySamsungitself having posted bare minimal PR information on its website. As if the consumer apathy isn’t apparent enough, Japan stands to receive arguably the most abridged line-up of all, while trying desperately to hide the fact that a Korean company, has made the product: Samsung’s name has been absolutely stripped from the device, front and back, right down to the promotional materials....