Vote for our Reader’s Choice Award for the best phone of 2025! (Elimination)

by dbadmin | Dec 15, 2025 | Android, Features, News, smartphones

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Can you feel it? 2026 is rumbling in the distance, getting ever closer. That can only mean one thing: It’s time to figure out the best smartphone of 2025! Here at Android Authority, we give out two major phone awards at the end...

7 features from other phones I want to see on Google’s Pixels

by dbadmin | Dec 15, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Pixel, Motorola, Samsung

Compared to the barebones Nexus phones of Google’s past, the Pixel series has a lot of great features that make using a Google phone unlike any other smartphone. Whether it’s Call Screening or Now Playing, there’s a lot to love about the Pixel experience, and I’m glad...

6 design misses stopping Gemini from catching up to ChatGPT

by dbadmin | Dec 14, 2025 | ChatGPT, Features, Google Gemini

Gemini comes with a major update that breaks the internet, everybody jumps on it to check it out, and after a day or two of hype, everybody goes back to using ChatGPT. The familiarity with ChatGPT trumps all the innovation Google has been making, but there’s another...

I’m using Samsung’s One UI 8.5 beta, and there’s one feature every Android skin needs to copy

by dbadmin | Dec 14, 2025 | Features, Samsung, Samsung One UI

If you’re a Samsung fan, you probably heard about the One UI 8.5 beta release last week. Samsung officially launched the beta on December 8, and since then, we’ve discovered a surprising number of new features and settings. While there’s a lot to like about One UI...

Google Messages has a major problem, and I’m sick of it

by dbadmin | Dec 14, 2025 | Android, Android apps, Features, Google, google messages

I’m tired of Google Messages on the web. Tired of constantly having to re-verify my credentials. Tired of not being able to send a voice message. Tired of a watered-down version of what has turned into quite a beautiful messaging application on Android phones. In a...

Android 16 QPR2 has breathed new life into my Google Pixel 9 Pro

by dbadmin | Dec 14, 2025 | Android 16, Features, Google, Google Pixel 9, Software Update

When I got my Pixel 10 Pro XL, I thought I would never look again at my “older” Pixel 9 Pro XL. I realize how privileged and braggy this sounds, but it’s the reality of my job: New Pixel lands at my desk, ergo last year’s Pixel, which I was perfectly happy with until...