The best flip smartphones from Samsung and Motorola are on sale!
Ryan Haines / Android Authority Are you thinking of getting yourself a foldable flip smartphone? The battle for the best one is mainly between the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 and the Motorola Razr Plus 2024. If you’ve been on the fence about getting one of these, today is your lucky day, as both are […]
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Switching from Mint Mobile and need your account number? Here’s how to get it
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority If you have decided to leave Mint Mobile you might be wondering how to get your account number and PIN, which are required to transfer your number to another provider. While many providers make it easy to access this information online, Mint Mobile makes the process much more difficult. Ultimately, […]
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Android 16’s notification cooldown feature will save you from notification spam
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The first Android 16 developer preview adds a feature called notification cooldown that gradually lowers the volume of successive notifications from the same app. This feature was first spotted in a developer preview of Android 15 but it never rolled out in the stable or any of the quarterly […]
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Android 16 will let you share audio to multiple Bluetooth devices at once
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 Developer Preview 1 introduces a new Audio Sharing feature that lets other people listen to your phone’s media along with you. This feature is based on Auracast, which is the marketing term for Bluetooth LE Audio broadcasting. Of Google’s Pixel phones, only the Pixel 8 and later […]
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The new Bing Wallpaper app is nice, but it’s also a privacy nightmare
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The Bing Wallpaper app has rolled out on the Microsoft Store. The app features a variety of wallpapers that have appeared on the Bing homepage. However, the app has code that allows it to decrypt and look at cookies on Edge, Chrome, and Firefox. If you’re like me, then […]
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Bad credit keeping you from a postpaid phone plan? AT&T Unlimited Level Up Plan may be the solution
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T Level Up is a new unlimited plan that opens the door to postpaid service regardless of your credit status. The plan includes unlimited talk, text, and 30GB of high-speed data for $50.99 a month, with speeds slowed to 1.5Mbps after the data cap. By maintaining six months of […]
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Android 16: Confirmed features, codename, leaks, release date, and everything else we know so far
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google switched things up with Android 15 when it decided to decouple the platform update from the Pixel 9 series. That decision gave both the software and hardware their own breathing room and independent timelines. The official stable Android 15 update has been out for the Pixel lineup for […]
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Android 16 DP1 is already here, shifting the entire launch schedule forward
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Today, Google launched Android 16 Developer Preview 1 for supported Pixel devices. The update brings a handful of new features, including an embedded photo picker. Most importantly, today’s launch pushes the eventual stable release forward by about three months. Google threw us for a whirl last month when […]
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These are the Pixel phones that will get Android 16 DP1, and there are two surprises
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR The first developer preview build of Android 16 is here for Google’s Pixel devices. Android 16 DP1 is rolling out to the Pixel 6 and newer models, which is surprising considering Android 15 was the final commitment from Google for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. The stable […]
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We made unofficial Android 16 wallpapers to get you hyped
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR We have created six unofficial Android 16 wallpapers. Android 16 Developer Preview 1 launched today much earlier than usual. If you don’t want to (or can’t) install Android 16, at least you can get excited by using one of these wallpapers! We didn’t expect to be talking about […]
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