I tested the Pixel 10’s charging with Google’s own 67W brick, and it’s still disappointingly slow

by dbadmin | Sep 5, 2025 | Authority Insights, Features, Google Pixel 10

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google’s Pixel series has, to be blunt, always been pretty slow to charge. Even the Pixel 9 Pro XL’s boost to 37W (about 35W effective) still left the phone taking a sluggish 77 minutes to reach full, while the regular 26W...

7 features I’m excited to try when Gemini lands on my Google Home speakers

by dbadmin | Sep 5, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Assistant, Google Gemini, Google Home, Google Nest, Google Nest Audio, Google Nest Mini

Credit: Adam Molina / Android Authority Gemini support on Google Home and Nest speakers has been a long time coming. The feature has been in preview testing for some lucky US users with specific voices for months now, but Google just announced the exact date when...

You can finally remove fences in Google Photos, and the results are crazy

by dbadmin | Sep 5, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Gemini, Google Photos

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority At Google I/O 2017, Google showed what quickly became one of its most infamous product teases in history: removing a chain link fence from a picture of a child playing baseball. The pitch was that we would soon be able to...

Android 16 QPR1 made my Pixel 9 Pro feel just like a Pixel 10 Pro

by dbadmin | Sep 5, 2025 | Android 16, Features, Google, Google Pixel 10

Believe it or not, I’m not usually one to load up beta software. It’s cool to try new Android features before they’re fully baked, but I run into more hiccups than I’d usually like along the way. However, when Google announced that the Android 16 QPR1 beta was ready...

I didn’t think I’d like any of these Pixel 10 features, but Google proved me wrong

by dbadmin | Sep 4, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Pixel 10

If I’m honest, Google made me a little nervous when it introduced the Pixel 10 series. Not because I thought it was about to ruin the things I love about its flagships, but because it seemed like Google was starting to run out of ideas for clever software features....

I won’t buy the next Google TV Streamer unless it copies this Acer TV box feature

by dbadmin | Sep 4, 2025 | Features, Google TV, Google TV Streamer, Streaming

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Colleague C Scott Brown loved the Google TV Streamer, and it’s easy to see why. The TV box combines a sleek design with plenty of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, Thread support, and a decent processor. However, Acer just...