The Galaxy S25 Ultra is lighter and brighter, but is it enough? S23 Ultra owners say no

by dbadmin | Jan 30, 2025 | News, Polls, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S23, Samsung Galaxy S25

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority It is a running joke that Apple releases the same iPhone every year. Samsung probably felt it was missing out, so it jumped on this train with its Galaxy flagships, releasing minor iterations every year. Samsung has recently...

Google denies longer unskippable ads on YouTube, but survey takers beg to differ

by dbadmin | Jan 28, 2025 | Google, News, Polls, Survey Results, YouTube

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority We recently reported about a few bizarre cases of YouTube viewers seeing hour-long unskippable ads. This particular article sparked a lot of conversation on our website, with many frustrated users sharing similar stories...

Poll: Does Samsung’s design excite you?

by dbadmin | Jan 26, 2025 | News, Polls, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S25

Credit: Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority Samsung has just launched the Galaxy S25 series, and you’d be forgiven for looking at these phones and thinking they were the Galaxy S24 series. Or even the S23 range. The company hasn’t made significant design changes to its...

Do you really want a thinner smartphone? Why?

by dbadmin | Jan 15, 2025 | Apple, Apple iPhone 17, News, Polls, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S25

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Slim is in, or so smartphone makers would like you to believe this year. Two of the biggest phone players, Samsung and Apple, are rumored to be working on ‘Slim’ variants of their flagships, the Galaxy S25 Slim and the iPhone...

How much do you trust AI to make purchases on your behalf?

by dbadmin | Jan 1, 2025 | AI, Google Gemini, News, Polls

The adage may go, “if you want something done right, do it yourself,” but that’s no reason to micro-manage every corner of our lives. Beyond there just being no shortage of tasks where a professional’s expertise is required, we are living in the days of the modern gig...

The Pixel camera app doesn’t have this button, but you really want it

by dbadmin | Dec 31, 2024 | Google, Google Pixel, News, Photography, Polls, Survey Results

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google has offered great camera zoom on its Pixel Pro phones for a while now, with the Pixel 7 Pro and later featuring a 48MP 5x periscope camera. You can even get great 10x zoom shots as these camera phones crop in to...