Pocket Casts for Android is now even more awesome. Photo: Shifty Jelly

Pocket Casts, the best podcast client on Android, today received a mammoth update that adds a bunch of useful new features and improvements.

You can now filter your favorite podcasts by date, automatically backup your settings and database (if you’re using Marshmallow), and more.

Will Google return to HTC in 2016? Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android.

HTC will partner up with Google again this year to deliver not one but two new Nexus smartphones, replacing those currently made by LG and Huawei, according to sources.

HTC has previously teamed up with Google to make the Nexus One, the very first Nexus smartphone — and the Nexus 9, Google’s most recent tablet.

BlackBerry Priv is heading to T-Mobile. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

BlackBerry’s first Android-powered smartphone is coming to T-Mobile on January 26, and it’s going to put a big dent in your wallet. If you want to buy Priv off-contract, you’ll be paying $719.99 upfront.

Meet the LG G5. Photo: Android Authority

LG’s new G5, which will make its official debut at Mobile World Congress next month, has been revealed early in leaked design drawings. The handset looks a lot like its predecessors from the front, but LG has made a number of big hardware changes.

The Xperia Z5’s fingerprint scanner is being removed for the U.S. Photo: PC Advisor

Sony’s new Xperia Z5 lineup is its first to include fingerprint scanners, but the Japanese company has decided to remove them before bringing the Xperia Z5 and Xperia Z5 Compact to the U.S.