ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 gets updated to Android 4.2.2

We've said it before, and knowing us, you know we will say it again. When it comes to updating tablets, you will be hard pressed to find a manufacturer that supports its slates as well as ASUS. So that...

ZTE U935 leaks a 5-inch Full HD smartphone with quad-core po

Contrary to popular belief, we don’t really like to play favorites here at Android Authority. And yet how can we keep a clear head and not fall hopelessly in love with a company like ZTE? Okay, maybe...

How would you change the Nexus 7

Google's Nexus 7 has a rather colorful life story. It started out as the ASUS MeMO ME370T, until a sharp-eyed Google executive decided that it was ripe for a Mountain View makeover. When Andy Rubin and...

Refresh Roundup week of February 25th 2013

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so man...

Chrome for Android build may tout a proxy-based speed boost

A fast smartphone will only go so far toward improving browser load times if the connection isn't there to back it up. If a discovery within a recent build of Chrome for Android is any hint, Google ma...

LG breaks out the champers as it passes 10m LTE phones landm

Korean mobile giant LG has announced the sale of its 10 millionth 4G LTE smartphone.

Android at Mobile World Congress 2013 wrapup

A look back over the past week's Android news from Barcelona

ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 first non-Nexus to get Android 4.

ASUS has announced that they will begin pushing the Android 4.2 over-the-air update to the Transformer Pad TF300 for folks in the US today. Other regions will follow during the month of March. This makes...

2012 Top 20 Best Performance Android Mobile Phones

AnTuTu Benchmark adopts new benchmark criterion-- AnTuTu V3.0. This criterion improved the rationality of score ratio and make the chips perform at their best. Well, which is the best performance mobile...

2012 Hot 10 Android Phones/Tablets

In 2012, Android had entered quad-core age. Let's look at what devices had concerned by the users in each country.

Verizon support confirms an update for the Galaxy Nexus soon

The forgotten child of the Nexus program, the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus, is finally going to be seeing a software update soon. The device has found itself well behind the curve, four versions behind...

HTC One X One X+ One S and Butterfly to get Sense 5 in “a fe

Love it or hate it – Sense is an inseparable part of HTC’s Android offerings, and it’s not going anywhere soon. While past Sense iterations have been pretty cartoonish, the latest version of the...

Alcatel One Touch Snap and One Touch Snap LTE unveiled at MW

We’ve seen the Alcatel One Touch Idol X and even an Alcatel Firefox OS-based handset at MWC, but the company isn’t done yet. Alcatel has now unveiled two more handsets, the One Touch Snap and One Touch...

Bell and Virgin HTC One S users get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean u

Last month, we told you about the forthcoming Jelly Bean upgrade for users of the HTC One S under Telus. And a few weeks ago, we published a similar news story, only for users of the same phone under Three...

Sprint LG Optimus G Jelly Bean roll-out begins

Sprint users waiting on Jelly Bean for the LG Optimus G should check their handsets. A few reports have come in apparently confirming the beginning of a roll-out phase for the phone on the Now Network...

Nexus 4 Nexus 10 found to have OpenCL drivers

Well, this is quite the interesting story. Anandtech is reporting that drivers for OpenCL, a standard that allows developers to tap into parallel computing power for multi-core GPUs and CPUs, are said...

Real Racing 3 hits Android with freemium model

If you’ve been waiting on EA’s Real Racing 3, today’s the day you can get it… and for free, no less. It’s one of the most expansive racing titles on Android yet, with over 45 cards from the likes...

You're all invited to the Samsung Galaxy S4 launch in Times

Hey Samsung fans, get thee to Times Square on March 14 and you can be part of the big Samsung Galaxy S4 launch event.

HTC One will be HTC's only flagship phone this year

HTC is streamlining its approach to smartphones this year, making the new HTC One its sole flagship handset.

Sense 5.0 confirmed for older HTC One Series phones and Butt

HTC has confirmed that it plans to upgrade a select number of handsets to the newly-announced Sense 5.0. The news came first through the phone maker's Facebook account, then via an HTC statement.