September 3, 2012
The day has finally come for Motorola XOOM 2 owners: Android 4.0 is here. Motorola Australia today confirmed that the roll-out of the Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” update has begun for Telstra users. This update applies to both Wi-Fi and 3G variants of the XOOM 2. It’s a staggered release, so if you don’t [...]
September 3, 2012
Paul from over at MoDaCo has confirmed that ASUS will be launching a 3G variant of the Nexus 7. Details are scarce as to what pricing will be and when it will be available in each of the place we call earth. Paul was able to confirm that a launch will be happening in 6 [...]
August 31, 2012
Samsung’s newly announced Galaxy Note II is now available for pre-order from reputable Australian online retailers MobiCity and Kogan. MobiCity is asking for $849 per device, and Kogan is asking for $839 per device with a limit of 1 per customer. Don’t let the $10-less price at Kogan fool you; MobiCity can still be cheaper [...]
August 30, 2012
HTC have unveiled to the world the Desire X, a low-cost, yet stylish alternative to HTC’s somewhat pricey One Series of devices — mainly the One S. The Desire X features a 4-inch WVGA (800×480) LCD display similar to the exceptional quality of the One X display. There’s also a 1GHz Dual-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, [...]
August 29, 2012
Music streaming service, Grooveshark, has finally had its Android app placed back on the Google Play Store after being removed months ago due to licensing issues among other things. The app includes a free 14-day/50-play trial after which you’ll need to sign up for either $9/mo or $90/yr to play as much music on your [...]
August 29, 2012
Another interesting tid-bit to come out of Telstra forum post today, is that Samsung have confirmed what we kind of already knew: the Galaxy S III will be getting Jelly Bean. What this does mean is that Samsung will soon be passing that update over to Telstra for testing and then onto the end-user. “The [...]
August 29, 2012
Telstra today confirmed — via a community forum post — that the Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” update for the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G has been delayed an extra week. There was no definite reasoning behind this, but as you can see below, Telstra are expecting a new submission to arrive on August 31 [...]
August 29, 2012
Vodafone Australia have today confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v will be receiving Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” in the form of an over-the-air update from today onwards. While it still isn’t the latest version of Android (4.1 “Jelly Bean”), at least you’ll be finally off the tablet-specific Android 3.1 “Honeycomb”. The update is [...]
August 27, 2012
World News Australia won’t be the only Android app to come from SBS. The television network today launched SBS On Demand for iOS (as that’s where the greater demand is), however, journalist and friend of Ausdroid, Neerav Bhatt, today let us know that the SBS On Demand app for Android “is in development”. The app [...]
August 24, 2012
In the video embedded below, Samsung let us know how the design of their flagship Galaxy S III came about. Sure, some tech sites have said that lawyers designed the Galaxy S III, but in this video you’ll learn that nature was the key behind the design process. From the sound of strolling through forests [...]
August 22, 2012
We reached out to Google Australia earlier today asking if there was any chance of the Google Play gift cards that launched today would ever find their way to Australian stores. It turns out that there may well be a chance of that happening in the future with Google Aus stating: “…we want to give [...]
August 21, 2012
HTC is certainly feeling the pinch from its lost market share over the past year and is now planning to turn their metaphorical ship in the right direction once again. The Taiwanese company’s CEO, Peter Chou, told his employees in an internal email that he was disappointed in their market share dropping even though the [...]
August 20, 2012
Samsung have released a teaser video for their upcoming launch of the Galaxy Note II — the successor to the surprisingly popular Galaxy Note. In the video they note (punny) it as being “a small and light thing” which may or may not be referring to either the stylus (S-Pen) or the device itself. If [...]
