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News Weekly: Android 16 preview, Google may have to sell Chrome, OPPO Find X8 launch, and more

A round-up of the biggest Google/Android-related news that stood out this week.

The update, which is expected to hit stable in Q2 2025, doesn't brings a handful of notable changes and features, including notification cooldown, audio sharing (which first appeared in the Android 15 beta), an improved desktop mode, and more. (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)After a judge ruled earlier this year that Google holds a monopoly on search, the Justice Department has filed a proposal to break up the company, which includes selling off Chrome. Both phones are powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9400, which competes directly with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite and offers a new NPU with 80% faster LLM prompts and 100% more performant diffusion generation.

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