Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority If you’re looking to add a smart speaker to your house (or multiple), nothing quite beats the value that Amazon’s Echo speakers offer. Especially if you can get them on sale! Right now, the most affordable ones are even cheaper than usual. You can get the Amazon Echo Dot … Read more

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The redesigned Google Home app seems to have started rolling out on iOS. An iPhone 16 Pro Max user posted screenshots of the app’s new UI, complete with Gemini, the new layout, and the “Ask Home” search bar. Looks like Google has to flip a server-side switch to … Read more

Credit: OnePlus/Weibo TL;DR OnePlus may have quietly revealed the launch date for the OnePlus 15. The company has shared images of a new Sand Dune colorway alongside details about the phone’s build. The design reveal includes an image of the phone’s display with a date, which could very well be when the company plans to … Read more

Credit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR F-Droid has warned that Google’s new developer verification rules could effectively kill alternative Android app stores. The platform says that Google’s rules are monopolistic and harmful to competition as well as user freedom. F-Droid says the new rules would make Google the gatekeeper of all Android apps, but … Read more

Credit: Tushar Mehta / Android Authority Back in 2009, I was one of the lucky few to have an invite to Spotify’s UK launch program, when the future of music discovery was bright and exciting, unlike today’s bleak abyss of arist impoverishment and algorithm-induced repetition. How it’s taken fourteen years for Spotify Lossless to finally … Read more

We all have a daily productivity workflow, whether carefully honed after wild experimentation or naturally formulated through habit. Mine sits in the middle of these two poles. I’ve been on an ongoing mission to streamline my digital life, especially regarding the digital tools and apps I use daily. After years of testing various products and … Read more

Robot vacuums are becoming incredibly capable, but there’s something satisfying about the extra reach and deeper clean you can manage when using a handheld device. This doesn’t mean you have to pull out your broom, mop, and bucket, though, with the current generation of wet-dry handheld vacuums packed with as much tech and more power … Read more

Credit: Megan Ellis / Android Authority I was showing my dad a couple of Android features on his phone recently, and not for the first time. You might have had this revelation already, but I realized there’s so much we do unthinkingly on our devices that might still be alien to the generations above us. … Read more