Thomas Ricker
Xiaomi oh my.
The company just dropped a teaser for its upcoming series 17 Pro and Pro Max models with a second display on the back. The flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 phones are launching this month in China.
Android
Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system; think of it like a public park compared to Apple’s walled garden. It dates back to 2007, and though its dessert-inspired version names were retired in 2019 for a straightforward numbering system, there will always be a special place in our hearts for an OS called “Oreo” and “Ice Cream Sandwich.
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Jess Weatherbed
Dominic Preston
Google Maps’ new Live look.
Google has been testing Live Updates for its Android mapping app for a while now, but some beta users are seeing a new look. Android Authority reports sightings of a new persistent notification that shows journey progress, ETA, the next turn, and flags any spots of traffic ahead.
Image: AssembleDebug / Android Authority
Jess Weatherbed
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Thin is in, but the big battery is the V5’s real magic trick.
Dominic Preston
Magic Cue mostly lives up to its name.
Allison Johnson
Jay Peters
Apps for Google TV and Android TV must offer 64-bit versions by next August.
Google is announcing the change so that developers can get their apps ready for “upcoming 64-bit Google TV and Android TV devices.” There are no changes to 32-bit support.
64-bit app compatibility for Google TV and Android TV
[Android Developers Blog]
Jess Weatherbed
Dominic Preston
Cinnamon Bun.
Android Authority reports that’s Google’s internal codename for Android 17, continuing its sweet treat theme. And if you’re confused why we’re back at “c” after all the alphabetical releases, the site explains that too.
This is the Android 17 codename, and it's not what you guessed
[Android Authority]
Richard Lawler
1Password on Android got updated to fix Chrome autofill problems.
If you also use 1Password and have an Android device, you may have also been dealing with autofill problems lately. However, updating to version 8.11.4 or higher and following the instructions to make sure Chrome is set to use third-party autofill seems to have worked on my phone to make the app more reliable again.
According to 1Password, the need to update its app and an uneven update rollout from Google caused a gap as Chrome switched from the old compatibility mode approach to the new native autofill experience.
Major autofill update on 1Password for Android | 1Password Community
[1password.community]
Dominic Preston
Google’s Android early warning system severely underestimated Turkey’s lethal earthquakes.
Android Earthquake Alerts uses the network of smartphones to detect tremors, sending alerts to other phones in the affected area. But in a paper published in Science, the company admitted it had found “several limitations” in the algorithm’s performance during two 2023 quakes that killed over 55,000 people.
It underestimated the 7.8 and 7.7 magnitude quakes, and instead of sending 10 million “TakeAction” alerts, which override Do Not Disturb, it sent just 469.
Dominic Preston
After six months, the UK confirms Google and Apple are both big tech companies.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed giving them “strategic market status” for iOS and Android, since over 90 percent of UK mobile devices run either OS.
It took the CMA since January to figure out what the EU did two years ago, and somehow it’s not done yet — it’ll take until October to confirm the proposal, around the same time it will “begin consulting” on its roadmaps to rein the two in.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Richard Lawler
Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event in 11 minutes.
If you missed anything from Samsung’s big event earlier this week, we’ve got the highlights for you to watch right here, along with our first impressions of the new Fold / Flip and Galaxy Watch 8 series.
Victoria Song and Allison Johnson also joined Jake on this week’s episode of The Vergecast to give more of their opinions on everything we saw this week, plus some other tech news.
Andrew Liszewski
Jess Weatherbed
Dominic Preston
Spotify can now Jam with Android Auto.
Google first announced an overhauled Spotify app for Android Auto back at I/O 2025, and 9to5Google reports that it’s now arrived. Spotify Premium users can start Jam sessions in their cars, allowing even free users to join in and add songs to a shared queue.
The app’s had a wider redesign too, with a more prominent section for downloaded tracks and proper support for Spotify’s search functionality.
Jess Weatherbed
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Sandlot vibes.
Backyard Baseball 2001 is getting remastered for Steam, iOS, and Android as Backyard Baseball ‘01, releasing July 8th.
The quarter-century-old sports game was the first of the series to include real MLB players, and 28 of the original 31 pros return in the remaster: including Mike Piazza, Carlos Beltran, Derek Jeter, Mark McGwire, and Jose Canseco. So you can reunite the The Bash Brothers to take on some kids.
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