You told us: You’re not sure if you’re using any 32-bit Android apps

by dbadmin | Oct 25, 2022 | Android, News, Survey Results

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority It turns out that the Google Pixel 7 series doesn’t actually support 32-bit Android apps, making it quite possibly the first Android phones to support 64-bit apps only. That made us wonder whether any Android Authority readers...

We asked, you told us: You definitely haven’t switched to eSIMs yet

by dbadmin | Oct 24, 2022 | eSIM, News, Survey Results

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority One technology that’s gained more attention in the last few weeks is eSIM connectivity. This comes after Apple announced that its US iPhone 14 models would ditch the physical SIM slot completely in favor of eSIM support only....

You told us: Here’s how many polled Pixel 7 owners have reception issues

by dbadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | Google Pixel, Google Pixel 7, News, Survey Results

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The Google Pixel 6 series had several annoying issues at launch, with some of these problems persisting to this day. Wireless connectivity was one of these long-running problems, but our initial findings are that this issue...

We asked, you told us: You wouldn’t pay for Netflix’s ad-supported plan

by dbadmin | Oct 19, 2022 | Netflix, News, Survey Results

Credit: Netflix Netflix launched an ad-supported plan last week, coming months after the company first confirmed that it was working on such an offering. The plan starts at $6.99 a month and promises four to five minutes of ads per hour. We wondered whether Android...

Poll: You’ve switched or plan to switch from Chrome after ad-blocker changes

by dbadmin | Oct 18, 2022 | Browser, Google Chrome, News, Survey Results

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Chrome has been in the news recently due to the web browser switching to a new extension platform. Unfortunately, this change will also essentially break many ad-blocking add-ons. We wondered whether this change would...

You told us: You think the Tensor G2 is fine but could be better

by dbadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | Google, Google Pixel, Google Pixel 7, Google Tensor, News, Survey Results

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google’s Pixel 7 series is powered by the Tensor G2 processor, and it doesn’t seem like a massive upgrade over the original Tensor chipset when looking at the CPU and GPU. We compared the Tensor G2 to its predecessor and rival...