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Dhruv Bhutani / Android AuthorityI performed a classic comical double-take at this week’s leak of the iPhone 17 redesign. “Surely this can’t be real?” I thought. Can Apple really sink so low as to copy Google’s stonkingly good-looking Pixel 9 series?Fan renders based on the chassis suggest the new look won’t necessarily clone the Pixel 9 entirely; it might still have the distinctive raised lenses we’re familiar with from recent iPhone designs rather than a shaded bar. Still, the horizontal camera setup and stacked flash are undeniably Pixel. Even if Apple isn’t deliberately copying the look (designs are planned years…

Text messages and chats on smartphones and the web include a combination of words, pictures, and emojis. It’s hard to imagine the use of social networking platforms without emojis. These small visual characters can convert a whole sentence into a single emoji. Notably, social media app users use more than 10 billion emojis every day. However, a new social media analysis suggests that some emojis are now falling out of favor. So, these are the most unpopular emojis and acronyms, and their usage will go extinct soon. By 2025, people will likely find these emojis and acronyms outdated A recent…

Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityFive years ago, if you wanted a Windows on Arm laptop, you faced two huge problems. The first was that software support for Windows on Arm was dismal, with relatively few companies porting their x86/x64 programs to the Arm architecture. Meanwhile, x64 emulation was non-existent, and even x86 emulation felt questionable at times, making the transition from the x64 version of Windows to the Arm version tricky for most people. The second major problem was that you had too few hardware choices. At the tail end of 2019, you had just two new Windows on…

Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google is testing the MediaTek T900 modem in its Pixel 10 prototypes. Not much is currently known about the modem, but it should support 3GPP Release 17 5G specification. Over the past month, we’ve seen a lot of information about the future, fully in-house designed Google Tensor chips leak, including full specs of the Tensor G5 and Tensor G6, a list of features they might enable, and more. We went from knowing basically nothing to having a good idea of what the future Tensor chips and the Pixel handset they’ll power will have to…

TL;DR Samsung is reportedly bringing its LLM-powered Bixby to global audiences with the Galaxy S25 series. The updated Bixby will feature natural interactions, contextual understanding, and app integration powered by Samsung’s proprietary large language model. It will be part of the stable One UI 7 update, possibly extending its reach to older Samsung flagships. Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series launch was all about Galaxy AI, with its longtime digital assistant, Bixby, taking a back seat. However, it looks like Samsung isn’t ready to give up on Bixby just yet. In July, the company teased that it’s equipping Bixby with next-generation AI…

C. Scott Brown / Android AuthorityTL;DR The exact date and announcement lineup for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event has leaked. According to the information, Samsung will host the Galaxy S25 series launch on January 22 at 20 AM PT. The company is also expected to reveal more information about Project Moohan at the event. We’re cruising in mid-December, that means the next big tech launch event is not far away. Samsung has a tradition of launching its S series flagships at the beginning of the year and 2025 should be no different. Multiple leaks have already preempted a January…

Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityTL;DR Apple is reportedly facing an unusual backlog in the development of iOS 18. As a result, some major iOS 19 features may have been delayed till 2026. The company will likely unveil iOS 19 during WWDC25 in early June. During its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple officially announced iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and other upcoming OS versions. Naturally, the initial iOS 18.0 release didn’t pack all of the unveiled additions, such as Apple Intelligence. Instead, the company has been gradually introducing them through iOS 18.x updates that will stretch till next year. Although this…

Robert Triggs / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google has confirmed that Pixel phones with the new 80% charge limit support bypass charging. When 80% charge is detected, the battery stops charging, but current is still used to power the handset. There isn’t a dedicated bypass charging toggle, so the phone will always charge to 80% before bypassing. As part of a recent Pixel Feature Drop, Pixel phones introduced a “Limit to 80%” charging option to help preserve long-term battery health. After some investigation, we discovered that this new option’s side effect is that Pixels support bypass charging once the phone hits this…

Robert Triggs / Android AuthorityTL;DR Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4580 references new emoji settings Microsoft could activate in a future release. When enabled, PC users will be able to optionally add an emoji panel button to the Windows taskbar. You’ll also be able to adjust whether the shortcut always appears or only when typing in a text field. iOS and Android phones have long offered accessible emoji buttons, as many users actively use them on social media and messaging platforms. These characters, however, sometimes also come in handy when getting productive work done on desktops. To help Windows 11…

TL;DR Epic and Telefonica have announced that the Epic Games Store will be preinstalled on millions of Android phones. This will allow Android phone owners in Europe and Latin America to more easily download Fortnite and several other titles. However, this could be the third app store on many smartphones, following the Play Store and OEM app stores. Fortnite isn’t available on the Google Play Store, but Android phone users can download the game via the Epic Games Store app. Now, Epic has announced that this store will be preinstalled on loads of Android phones.Epic and carrier giant Telefonica announced…