Battery life or performance: What’s your priority in a smartphone?
The first wave of Snapdragon 8 Elite phones recently launched, and Qualcomm’s new processor offers major performance gains on paper. However, colleague Rob Triggs also found that the new chipset brings significant battery life gains in practice. What’s more important…
The new Amazon Echo Show 15 and Show 21 are already on sale!
Both of these offers are available directly from Amazon, and they are specifically labeled as Black Friday deals. Amazon Echo Show 15 Amazon Echo Show 15 Keep everyone organized on the same screen. The Show 15 is a home hub…
Android Auto is more like Aut-Oh thanks to this odd bug
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Android Auto has recently started appending “oh” to the end of some messages it reads aloud. Reports have spotted this behavior with apps like WhatsApp, Teams, Facebook, and Google Messages. This is presumably some…
The PlayStation 5 Slim drops to a new record-low price!
Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Winter break is coming, and I don’t know about you, but my fondest childhood memories involve playing video games way too much over the holiday vacations. If you want to relive old times, or are…
My favorite e-reader is on sale for Black Friday but you should buy this one instead
After a year with the amazing Onyx Boox Palma, I was looking forward to seeing a big Black Friday sale so I could recommend it as the go-to e-reader this holiday season. Unfortunately, Amazon only slashed the price by 12%,…
Pixel Tablet Google VPN support makes a surprise arrival
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR VPN by Google has been available on the Pixel 7 and later devices, but skipped the Pixel Tablet. Access finally arrived with Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1, but so far had not been…
Apple iPhone 17 rumors: Everything we know so far about Apple’s next flagships
The iPhone 16 series is here, and Apple is packing a stronger punch than ever before. While the phones don’t have any drastic changes, the numerous smaller changes more than make up for a refreshed experience. The iPhone 16 series…
Android not receiving texts from iPhone? Here’s how you can try to fix it
Notoriously, Apple doesn’t like to play nice with Android. Steve Jobs called the operating system “stolen,” and there are a number of arbitrary barriers between the two platforms — in the iPhone’s Messages app, non-Apple devices are flagged with green…
Microphone not working on Android? Here’s how you can try to fix it
Needless to say, a malfunctioning microphone is a major problem on any kind of Android phone. While a lot of people confine their conversations to messaging apps these days, you’re almost inevitably going to be taking an honest-to-goodness voice call…
Save $650 on the super cool LG StanbyME Go portable TV
Call me crazy, but the LG StanbyME Go portable screen is about the coolest display I have seen in years. It comes built into a briefcase you can carry around! The thing is, the full $1,199.99 retail price is a…