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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Huge Xiaomi phone hits TENAA: is it the Mi Max 3? (Update: renders have landed) July 21, 2025 Update, June 28, 2025:It looks like the apparent Xiaomi Mi Max 3 listing on TENAA has been updated with images as well (seen below). The renders show a phone with similar stylings to theMi 6X, such as the vertically stacked camera housing, rear fingerprint scanner, and subtle antenna lines....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Ikea Place uses AR to place virtual furniture in your living room July 01, 2025 As much furniture as Ikea has designed and manufactured over the years, the Swedish company is no stranger to integrating technology into its business. Just look at itstablesthat incorporate wireless charging, or its platform-agnosticsmart lighting. Ikea even dabbled in augmented reality asearly as 2012, though the company looks to significantly improve on those early days with the Ikea Place app forAndroid....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Leak: Qualcomm’s next flagship chip could come with Leica camera smarts June 16, 2025 It’s no surprise that Qualcomm is already working on aSnapdragon 888successor. The new flagship processor can be expected to launch in December just like most of its predecessors, and we now have a few details about it thanks toWinFuture’sRoland Quandt. After outing information about alower-end Snapdragon 888 variant, Quandt nowclaimsthat Qualcomm is already testing early samples of its next premium processor....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG restructures to focus on key business areas and growth June 26, 2025 As with many of the “old guard” of smartphone OEMs,LGhas seen its market share erode as well assales start to stagnate. Despite the company’s holding true to form with theG4– as opposed toSamsung’scontroversial approachwithitsflagships – and just recently releasing an almostunbreakableV10, the profit picture as far as mobiles go does not look so lavish....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Lifestage, Facebook’s Snapchat-esque app for teens, gets removed from the Play Store August 11, 2025 It appears thatLifestage,Facebook‘s attempt at capturing that incredibly awkward high school crowd, will be added to the list of social networks that failed to get very far off the ground. You would be forgiven if you have no idea what Lifestage is, particularly since the app was not update for several months prior to its removal....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Moto X Style will arrive in India on October 8th July 01, 2025 Motorolabegan teasing an Indian launch of its high-endMoto X Stylelast week and we now have a launch date. The phone is set to make its regional appearance on October 8th. We don’t have a retail price for the Moto X Style in India yet, but a safe bet would probably put the phone somewhere around Rs....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Moto Z appears in new leak with some Moto Maker back panel options July 25, 2025 Motorola’s upcoming metal made marvel,the Moto Z, is quickly becoming one of the most leaked devices in mobile history. Despite the company itself not having formally unveiled the pair of devices believed to be branded with the letter, leaks have been looming large in the weeks leading up tothe potential June 9th unveilingof the new hardware....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Motorola reveals plans for Stagefright patch rollout July 24, 2025 Worried about the Stagefright vulnerability that affects 95% of all Android phones? Surely, you don’t want your phone to be taken control of with a simple MMS message.Google,SamsungandLG(among others) have already gotten to work, and Motorola wants to let you know they also have your back. The manufacturer is now getting ready to update its entire line-up, going back to phones released as far as about 2 years ago....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 6 teardown reveals it may be more water-resistant than we thought June 08, 2025 Venerable repair site iFixit just publishedits OnePlus 6 teardown. Despite giving it a mediocre repairability score of 5 out of 10 (more on that in a minute), the teardown did reveal thatOnePlustook multiple steps to make the OnePlus 6 pretty water-resistant. As many OnePlus fans noticed after theOnePlus 6officially launched, the company does not give anIP ratingto the device....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OPPO N3: O-Click - feature focus June 26, 2025 If you’ve seen ourunboxing,first impressionsandcamera shootout, you may have picked up that theOPPO N3comes with a companion accessory. Dubbed theO-Click, this accessory acts as a remote control for the N3’s camera, music playback and much more. Because the O-Click has so many features we’d like to talk about, we’ve decided to make a separate video from our full review to explain this remote control in depth....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. PlayStation 5 DualSense controller will support Android out-of-the-box July 24, 2025 Twitter was inundated today with reports from reviewers who received their PlayStation 5 review units. One of those reviewers, Austin Evans, posteda video on YouTubetalking about what he’s allowed to talk about so far. In an unboxing video for the DualSense controller that will come with PS5 consoles, Evans confirms something we suspected: the DualSense will support Android out of the box....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Poll: Would you buy HONOR phones now that they’re regaining Google services? July 08, 2025 We’re not sure if you’ve heard, but HUAWEI’s former sub-brand HONOR has some good news to share. The newly independent company’s upcoming smartphone — the HONOR 50 — will release in the European marketwith Google apps and serviceson board. Yes, HONOR will finally be a member of the GMS club again after it lost the privilege due to theUS ban on HUAWEI....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Popcorn Time APK for Android: What are the risks? July 10, 2025 ThePopcorn TimeAPK for Android is a TV and movie streaming app gaining lots of popularity. Originally a program for Windows, you can now use a Popcorn Time Android app to stream the latest releases on your phone or tablet. It’s not available on the Play Store, but you can download the Popcorn Time APK in other places online....