January 9, 2013
Hello fellow Melbournians! Did you know that Samsung is bringing a store to Melbourne, so it’s not just those pesky peeps up in Sydney having all the fun? Well neither did I until this afternoon. Gizmodo Australia has uncovered that Samsung are opening a store at Highpoint Shopping Centre that’s expected to open in mid-March. [...]
January 9, 2013
Sony’s flagship device of 2013 will be coming to our nation’s largest carrier, Telstra. On their Twitter, Telstra announced that the Xperia Z would be coming soon with registrations of interest in the device now open. By registering you’ll receive more details about the device once Telstra release pricing and availability. Update: The Xperia Z [...]
January 8, 2013
The previously leaked Sony Xperia Z was finally announced today at CES and it it’s certainly an impressive unit. The Xperia Z is Sony’s 2013 flagship device and its specs are certainly strong enough to hold them up for the entire year, at least it looks that way on paper, we’ll see about real-world use. [...]
January 8, 2013
Today at Qualcomm’s keynote address at CES, they introduced a new range of mobile processor chips that throws away the S3 and S4 moniker that we’re currently using. Instead, the new range is broken down into Snapdragon 200, Snapdragon 400, Snapdragon 600, and Snapdragon 800. Snapdragon 200 and 400 are low-end chips that you’re not [...]
January 7, 2013
The other main unveiling at NVIDIA’s event today’s event was Tegra 4 — NVIDIA’s next-generation mobile CPU. It features 4 Cortex-A15 CPU cores, 1 ULP (ultra low power) companion core — same idea as Tegra 3, 72 GPU cores, and although it’s not on the actual Tegra 4 chip, there’s an Icera i500 4G LTE [...]
January 7, 2013
NVIDIA have just announced their plans to bring an Android-powered handheld gaming unit to market in the near future. Unveiled at CES today, Project Shield is a handheld gaming unit that runs vanilla Android (yay!) with NVIDIA’s own Tegra 4 doing all the computing work. Google apps are included as well as access to the [...]
January 6, 2013
HTC’s first device with a 5-inch 1080p display, the HTC Butterfly, is now available for pre-order from MobiCity for $849. Not cheap, but that’s the price you pay for being an early adopter to cool new technology. MobiCity are expected to start shipping the phone on the 18th of January. While it won’t support any [...]
January 5, 2013
Sony are expected to make a real splash at CES this year, but that won’t affect the Xperia Z. Why? Because it’s water-resistant (yes, I accept the terrible play on words), at least according to new leaked stills taken from a promo video for the device. As we previously mentioned, the Xperia Z is expected [...]
January 4, 2013
There’s nothing worse than getting a scratch on the glass front (or rear) of your brand new Android device, but thanks to Corning’s Gorilla Glass, those incidents are becoming less and less common. Come CES next week, they’ll be showing off their third iteration of the successful glass which they say is 3 times more [...]
January 3, 2013
We’re coming into the start of 2013 and the lead-up to one of the biggest technology events of the year: CES 2013. This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is no doubt going to be filled with hopes and dreams, but whether or not they’ll turn into real devices is questionable. These two devices [...]
December 18, 2012
HTC is no stranger to pushing the technical boundaries early in the product cycle, they were one of the first to implement the 720p display (in the Rezound), and they were one the first to implement a 1080p display in the 5-inch Butterfly. Now it looks like they might be squeezing that 1080p display down [...]
December 4, 2012
Have you ever wanted to see where and how Telstra tests all their devices before they’re brought to market? Well, even if you don’t, it’s super short and interesting. Each device is tested by Telstra before being announced and brought to market, so if it fails the tests they throw at it, then it’s not [...]
November 22, 2012
In Telstra’s most recent public announcement of software updates, they’ve informed users for a range of devices that major updates for their devices are expected to be rolled out before the end of this year. The Samsung Galaxy S II 4G “Ice Cream Sandwich” update is expected to see Telstra approval on November 26th, with [...]
