by David Gonzales, 1 week ago

Based on the portrayal of Google in one of Microsoft’s more recent TV ads, it may look like Google is in a bind with Apple over phones, while Microsoft sits the fight out and generally…

by Bogdan Bele, 3 weeks ago

The Switch to Windows Phone Android app has made its debut in the Google Play Store, and not many users had good things to say about it. The app uses Quixey’s search engine to match…

by Bogdan Bele, 3 weeks ago

The new Windows Phone TV ad that will start showing today, while it does make fun of Android users alongside iPhone users, is a pretty funny one. The ad’s story takes place at a wedding…

by Bogdan Bele, 1 month ago

The Facebook Home Android launch has triggered a pretty strong reaction from Microsoft, in an article that executive Frank X. Shaw posted on the official company blog. Shaw says that Facebook’s event has made him…

by Robert Triggs, 2 months ago

Smartphone advertising can sometimes be a pretty blunt business, especially when it comes to feature comparisons. I’m sure you’ve all heard of Microsoft’s Windows Phone Challenge before, or “smoked by Windows Phone” as it used…

by David Gonzales, 2 months ago

In an earlier report, we told you how HTC bashed Samsung for what it says is a lack of innovation after seeing what it did during the recently concluded Galaxy S4 announcement. Evidently, HTC thinks…

by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

As you would expect we are ardent Android fans here at Android Authority, but with good reason. Recent data compiled by website monitoring service Pingdom is showing that Android is used to power some 42%…

by David Gonzales, 3 months ago

If you’re one of the many people who are still dreaming about the day Nokia releases its own-brand Android-powered tablets, you’re going to want to hear this bit of news. The rumor that Nokia will,…

by Chris Smith, 3 months ago

After having talked about an unconfirmed Galaxy S4 family member yesterday, supposedly a Samsung smartwatch (the Galaxy Watch?), we now have the first set of leaked images of the device, or better said of its…

by David Gilson, 3 months ago

Suggesting that another operating system could fill the shoes of Windows sounds crazy, it certainly isn’t going to happen in the near future, desktop Linux still hasn’t managed it. What about the much longer term…

by Chris Smith, 3 months ago

Samsung has registered a variety of new product names for future mobile devices, although it’s not clear whether any of them will actually be used in the near future. Several potential names for Android smartphones…

by Chris Smith, 3 months ago

A Nokia Android device is the wet dream of many former Nokia handset owners that have bought a device powered by Google’s operating system. But Nokia decided to choose Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform as its…

by David Gonzales, 3 months ago

The native mobile app development kits of today are all vastly improved versions of the ones that came before them. With that being said, however, there’s still a lot of work that needs to be…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 3 months ago

Microsoft has a proprietary technology called Exchange Active Sync that they use for making sure your emails, contacts, and calendar entries are syned up across all your devices. Microsoft, being a company who wants to…

by Joe Hindy, 4 months ago

It’s no secret that one of the reasons that Android is doing so well is because of it being open source. Without being open source, developers and OEMs couldn’t help themselves to Android source code….