Huawei Watch 2While the Huawei Watch 2 is a wonderful showcase of all the new features and capabilities of Android Wear 2.0 and its particular focus on fitness, the new direction this has resulted in will be disappointing for those who are fans of the elegant simplicity of its predecessor. Table of contents The original Huawei Watch is one of the most popular Android Wear devices to date, and for good reason. While it may be a tad on the chunky side, users flocked to the Huawei Watch because of its classy design and solid performance.

Today is Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with…oh, wait a minute, it’s actually time for the May 2020 Android security patch! If you own a Google Pixel smartphone (any except for the original Pixel), you can perform a software update check now in System Settings to grab the new patch. Conversely, you can update manually or simply wait for the OTA notification. Speaking of feature drops, the most recent one was in the beginning of March.

International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers are meant to be unique to each phone. They’re sort of like a fingerprint that helps carriers identify each device. When authorities in India found out that over 13,000 Vivo phones shared duplicate IMEI numbers, they knew something wasn’t quite right. According to Jitender Sharma on Twitter (via TechRadar), a police officer in Meerut first discovered the fraudulent IMEI numbers when his phone was repaired.

In this day and age, it’s hard to find people who don’t cover up their phones with a protective case. In fact, even as far back as 2017, most people voted in a Statista survey to say they use a case on their phones. Fast forward to 2021 and smartphones have bodies that don’t really inspire confidence in their durability. The use of glass backs has become more prevalent to enable features like wireless charging, making phones slippery and more prone to breakage.

Samsung just took the wraps off of a larger version of the unique Galaxy S6 Edge, but does this Plus iteration bring anything more to the table other just a bigger size? We find out, in this quick look at the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ vs Galaxy S6 Edge! DesignWhen it comes to the design, both devices sport identical design languages, save for the obvious fact that the Galaxy S6 Edge+ is the bigger of the two, courtesy of its larger 5.

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 When Google launched Android Wear in 2014, it did so with the help of two smartphone OEMs that wanted to help kickstart the smartwatch landscape on Android. The LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live were the first two Android Wear-powered watches to hit the scene. Shortly after that release, Samsung pivoted away from the platform and went all-in on its year-old operating system, Tizen.

The Red Hydrogen One might be one of the biggest smartphone duds in the past few years, seeing several delays before finally being released late last year. Now, Red founder Jim Jannard has announced that a follow-up phone is on the way. Jannard made the announcement on the company’s official forum (h/t: The Verge), saying the new phone was being designed “virtually from scratch” with the aid of a new ODM (original device manufacturer).

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR You can now change your Signal phone number without needing to abandon your chat history. Porting your data to a new number is as easy as porting data to a new phone. There’s even an alert in chats that will tell your friends you’ve switched numbers. If you’re a Signal user, you’ve likely had to deal with porting your data to a new phone.

There is a very real and very inaccurate assumption that there are no good games on Android or iOS. The argument exists that mobile phones aren’t the best game machines due to their touch screens, but what about if Android is a console OS? NVIDIA gave that a shot with their Shield Console and, to a smaller extent, their Shield Tablet. The difference is remarkable. In this list, we’ll take a look at the best NVIDIA Shield Console games.

If you’re interested in Android development, chances are you’re going to need to learn some programming. In most cases, that will mean learning Java or Kotlin, either of which is officially supported by Android Studio, the official “IDE” for Android Development from Google. However, no one ever talks about XML, and this can lead to confusion when you open up a new project for the first time and notice that there are actually two different main files and two different types of script.