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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Apple vows to make AirTags less creepy, deliver Android app this year July 26, 2025 Earlier this year, Apple finally got around to launching its long-awaited smart tracker known asAirTag. As with competitor products from Tile andSamsung, AirTags give you an easy way to track important items, such as car keys, purses, luggage, etc. The big difference between AirTags and other trackers, though, is how they are tracked....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. ESPN Michael Jordan documentary, The Last Dance, streaming guide: How to watch August 21, 2025 Update:ESPN’s latest documentary The Last Dance, featuring the greatest basketball icon of all time, Michael Jordan, has now aired in full. The Last Danceis a 10-part docuseries capturing never-before-seen footage following Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls during the 1997-98 NBA season. The documentary premiers on April 19, Sunday night, with the first episode airing at 9PM ET, immediately followed by Episode 2 at 10PM....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Essential Phone Oreo beta 3 now available, includes Spectre and Meltdown patches Jul 09, 2025 It’s beenabout a monthsince theEssential Phonehas received anAndroid Oreobeta update, and unfortunately it’s still not time for the official release. To help tide you over until the final version is ready,Essential is releasinga third Oreo beta with some security patches and performance improvements. The third Oreo beta build arrives as version OPM1....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fitbit Versa vs Ionic: Which Fitbit smartwatch is still worth buying? June 29, 2025 There are plenty of greatsmartwatchesandfitness trackersout there with Fitbit in charge of several front-running picks. While theSensestands out as one of the best fitness tracking smartwatches available, some users may be considering purchasing an older watch. The Fitbit Ionic launched in 2019 as the company’s first real smartwatch....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. From Stadia to Play Store titles, here’s how to play games on your Android TV June 28, 2025 Android TVis a pretty diverse platform as far as apps are concerned. You get the might of the Google Play Store with allAndroid TV devicesafter all. So when it comes to playing games on Android TV, you have a sizeable selection to choose from....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Assistant Duplex demo gets a bit creepy as its AI voice calls and speaks to real people June 28, 2025 Is the AI takeover of the world getting closer than we thought? During theGoogle I/O 2018keynote event today, company CEO Sundar Pichai presented an amazingly creepy demo forGoogle Assistant, showing that it could actually talk realistically to real people in automated voice calls....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google CEO Sundar Pichai says ‘hardware is hard’ in interview about Pixels August 12, 2025 Last week, we got a rarebehind-the-scenes lookat what’s going on with the Google Pixel hardware team. Unfortunately, the news was mostly bad, with internal complaints about theGoogle Pixel 4design, poor sales of that device, and the exiting of two major players on the Pixel team....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Hangouts might finally shut down in 2020 (Update #2: Google’s official response) June 19, 2025 Update #2 (August 17, 2025 at 3:17 p.m. ET):A Google spokesperson reached out toAndroid Authoritywith the company’s official response on the Hangouts confusion: Update #1 (July 30, 2025, 2:35 p.m. ET):In a surprising turn of events, Scott Johnston, Realtime Comms product lead in G Suite and head of Hangouts at Google, responded (somewhat aggressively) to9to5Google’sreport....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google News is getting a facelift, complete with AMP, YouTube videos July 10, 2025 Google offers a number of ways to consume news with the likes of Google News, YouTube, and the Google Play Newsstand. Now, the search company wants to put all of these services in one place as part of an overhauled News app, it has been reported....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Hands-on: Fitbit Versa is a smarter, more affordable smartwatch for the masses July 25, 2025 Fitbit knows theIonicisn’t the most accessiblesmartwatchon the market. It’s a device for serious athletes that don’t mind paying a premium price to get the most top-of-the-line features. Now,Fitbitis launching a new smartwatch that it hopes will appeal to a much larger audience. TheFitbit Versais a departure from the Ionic on the design front, which is a good thing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Happy birthday Sonic! Sonic CD, Sonic 4 Episode 1 and 2 get price cuts on Google Play June 15, 2025 Did you know that Sonic has just turned 21? To celebrate the momentous occasion, Sega has decided to cut the price of all the digitally available Sonic games by up to 70% — that includes game collections of the iconic game character on iDevices, PSN, Xbox Live Arcade and of course, Google Play....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here are the videos you don’t want to miss this week – September 12th, 2015 August 12, 2025 Even though the bigIFA 2015trade show has officially come to a close, we’re still committed to bringing you the best Android-related coverage on the web. A number of major gadget manufacturers have recently announced some interesting products, and we’ve been lucky enough to go hands-on and even unbox some of the new offerings....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s why you can’t buy a Pixel 4 in India July 04, 2025 ThePixel 4series is official, but India isn’t getting its hands on them. Between a marketing blitz and thePixel 3aseries that was designed for emerging markets, the Pixel line up had finally started gaining momentum in India. However, with the launch of the Pixel 4, that comes to a halt....