The Samsung Galaxy S8 can handle near-gigabit speeds on T-Mobile's network

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Samsung Galaxy S8 can handle near-gigabit speeds on T-Mobile’s network August 12, 2025 The newly announcedSamsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plussmartphones pack in a ton of high-end hardware inside. However,T-Mobileclaims that the phone will also be the first device that can handle near-gigabit download speeds on its network. T-Mobile claims that the Galaxy S8 and the S8 Plus are the first smartphones that can support three cellular network technologies that are used by the carrier: 4×4 MIMO, carrier aggregation and 256 QAM....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 386 words · Latoya Hubbard

The Samsung Galaxy S9 just made history, but not in a good way

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. The Samsung Galaxy S9 just made history, but not in a good way August 03, 2025 Korean news siteThe Bellpublished some shipment numbers related to theSamsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus. According to the report, the second quarter shipment numbers for the Galaxy S9 are lower than the previous quarter. That has never happened before in the history of the Galaxy S line, which is going on eight years now....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 337 words · Mrs. April Park

This week in Apple: iPhone 12 mockups look cool, line enters production soon

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. This week in Apple: iPhone 12 mockups look cool, line enters production soon July 13, 2025 This week in Apple news we saw some physical mock-ups of whatthe iPhone 12 seriescould look like. At first glance, though, these appear to be based on older renders so take what they show with a grain of salt. However, they are still interesting and can tell us quite a bit about the devices....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 312 words · Allison Bush

Titanfall: Frontline will bring mech mayhem to card-based strategy game

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Titanfall: Frontline will bring mech mayhem to card-based strategy game August 15, 2025 Burn Cards are no longer restricted to Titanfall’s Black Market, now that they’ve been spun off into their own game that’s slated to hit the Play Store soon.Titanfall: Frontlinerepackages the franchise’s mech melee and wall-running warfare into a card-based strategy game, the first in a series of Titanfall spin-offs planned for mobile devices....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Mrs. Angela Gutierrez

Update: Google Duo's audio-only calls now available worldwide

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Update: Google Duo’s audio-only calls now available worldwide August 01, 2025 Update, April 10:Following the rollout start on March 27, Justin Uberti, tech lead for the Duo project, confirmed on Twitter that audio calling in Google Duo is now available to all users worldwide (viaAndroid Police). Original post, March 28:And the app updates keep on coming. Following theUI tweaksof the IMDb app and Google Translate’s inclusion ofword definitionsarrives another considerable app upgrade, this time toGoogle Duo....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 266 words · Amanda Kaufman

Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ getting Android Nougat update now

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ getting Android Nougat update now July 04, 2025 Android Nougat is slowly but surely making its way to more Android devices on the market. We recently reported Google’s newest mobile software isin almost 5% of all active Android devices. The update keeps pushing out to devices across the spectrum and today is time for some older Samsung phones to get the sweet treat....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 263 words · Monique Hurst

Watch HONOR's 3D camera prototype in action as HUAWEI looks to rival iPhone X's Face ID

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Watch HONOR’s 3D camera prototype in action as HUAWEI looks to rival iPhone X’s Face ID August 05, 2025 Like it or not, thenotch is coming, and it’sall thanks to Apple. Yet while a vast number of budget Android OEMs are expected to include camera cut-outs purely as an iPhone X-aping cosmetic choice, others are reportedly looking to take advantage of the notch and offer their own alternatives to Apple’s TrueDepth camera suite....

August 8, 2025 · 3 min · 471 words · Ashley Parker

We asked, you told us: The POCO F2 Pro is hot, but the price is lukewarm at best

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. We asked, you told us: The POCO F2 Pro is hot, but the price is lukewarm at best August 20, 2025 While thePOCO F1smartphone was one of the standout devices of 2018, we didn’t see any follow-up in 2019. We finally got a true sequel recently, though, with thePOCO F2 Pro, which packs a mighty punchin the specs department, just like its predecessor....

August 8, 2025 · 4 min · 675 words · Tyler Cooper

What is a flagship to you?

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What is a flagship to you? June 29, 2025 It’s a term we’ve all heard many, many times in reference to consumer electronics: “It’s a flagship device…” “It’s a flagship phone…” “It has flagship features.” The termflagshipcan be quite hard to define, as most people have their own unique definitions for the word. If you were to go by the historical definition, it has absolutely nothing to do with smartphones....

August 8, 2025 · 7 min · 1286 words · Deanna Riley

What is electrochromic glass and how does it work?

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What is electrochromic glass and how does it work? June 14, 2025 TheOnePlus Concept Oneis a pretty standard concept handset, apart from one rather nifty feature. The Concept One uses electrochromic glass to hide and reveal the phone’striple cameralenses. Taking just 0.7 seconds to turn the glass from opaque to transparent. Clearly, this is predominantly a style thing, but OnePlus also says it the glass controls the amount of light reaching the camera....

August 8, 2025 · 3 min · 556 words · Blake Rice

What we know about The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, coming to Disney Plus

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. What we know about The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, coming to Disney Plus June 01, 2025 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was one of the first projects announced as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Four in 2019. Originally scheduled for a 2020 release ahead ofWandaVision, the series is now set to launch later this year....

August 8, 2025 · 10 min · 1918 words · Cody Quinn

Xiaomi's Redmi Note 8 2021 packs a 'new' CPU in a reused design (Updated: Price)

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 8 2021 packs a ‘new’ CPU in a reused design (Updated: Price) August 14, 2025 Update: June 16, 2025 (5:53 AM ET): Xiaomi hasannouncedthe price and availability details of the new Redmi Note 8 2021. The 4GB RAM + 64GB storage model of the phone will retail at $169. Meanwhile, its 128GB storage version will cost $189....

August 8, 2025 · 2 min · 412 words · Kenneth Colon

120W charging tested: How hot does your phone get?

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. 120W charging tested: How hot does your phone get? July 08, 2025 The last few years have seen a revolution in fast charging technologies: from the early breakthroughs in 20W and 30W chargers to the now common 40W to 60W technologies. But 2020 has taken us even further, with 120W charging now on the market. The promise is to take our phone batteries from empty to full in just a few minutes....

August 7, 2025 · 7 min · 1372 words · Timothy Hale