Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (2026), Tested and Reviewed
Want Google out of your life? It’s pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers,…
Gear News of the Week: Samsung Sets a Date for Galaxy Unpacked, and Fitbit’s AI Coach Comes to iOS
Samsung will unveil its next flagship smartphone lineup on February 25 at its Galaxy Unpacked event in San…
New Xiaomi 18 redesign reveals itself with iPhone-inspired Leica camera housing
The launch of the Xiaomi 18 series is still thought to be around seven months away. As it…
Google quietly fixed a big annoyance with Android’s Driving Mode
Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google is quietly fixing an issue with automatic DND using Driving mode.…
Get ready: February’s Android Canary build is nearly here (Update: Now available)
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A new Android Canary build is on the way. The upcoming build…
SlimeVR Butterfly Trackers – nRF52833-based, ultra-slim, full-body VR trackers offer up to 48h battery life (Crowdfunding)
Designed by SlimeVR in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the SlimeVR Butterfly Trackers are open-hardware, IMU-based, ultra-slim, full-body VR trackers designed…
I found a trick to easily check for new Android updates — here’s how
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I don’t know about you, but on any given week, I manually…
WhatsApp Deploys Rust-Based Media Parser to Block Malware on 3 Billion Devices
WhatsApp’s engineering team has rewritten its media handling library in Rust, cutting the codebase from 160,000 lines of…
Google says Android 17 Beta 1 is just around the corner
TL;DR Google says Android 17 Beta 1 will arrive soon, following the final Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2.1…
I found an Android phone that beats the iPhone 17 Pro in video
Tushar Mehta / Android Authority The iPhone has been held as the benchmark for phone video recording for…
Our Favorite Pixel Phone Is $100 Off
The latest mobile phone isn’t always the greatest. Despite a series of newer, updated Pixel 10 models, we…
Check out Android’s expected 2026 update and release cycle
It’s all very messy. Even someone like me, whose job is to follow Android, kept getting confused by…