May 23, 2013
Have you ever felt the pressing need to have a phone that’s the same size as a 7″ Android tablet, and to hold such a thing up to your head to make phone calls? No? Me neither. However, this is precisely what ASUS has unleashed upon us with the ASUS Fonepad, which was announced earlier [...]
May 22, 2013
Google Now, the feature that landed with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, is constantly being worked on and improved by Google, and with the advent of Reminders in Google Now, there’s a cheeky little tip from Google on how you can add these reminders from search results, be they on your handset or on the desktop. [...]
May 21, 2013
Those of you salivating over the announcement of a “Google Edition” of the venerable Samsung Galaxy S 4 need not be worried that you won’t be able to buy this beast in Australia. While there’s been no official announcement of the Galaxy S 4 Google Edition in Australia — yet — we have heard from [...]
May 20, 2013
Prior to Google I/O there were rumours of a White Whale.. no.. a white Nexus 4. In fact, we’ve been covering these “White Nexus 4” rumours for months, going back as far as November last year. It seems that this rumour has finally turned out to be correct. The good folk over at Android and [...]
May 20, 2013
Early this morning, Jason Murray and I attended an Optus network briefing in Sydney, presented by Guenther Ottendorfer, Optus’ Managing Director of Networks and Andrew Smith, Vice President of Mobile Radio Engineering. The focus of Optus’ briefing was to discuss the improvements to Optus’ network over the last twelve months, to look at what’s coming [...]
May 20, 2013
Last month, we ran a fundraiser with our mate Claire Porter from News Ltd to raise funds for Sydney’s Shoeshine Brian, or moniker aside, Brian Rudd. Claire started this campaign with the ambitious goal of raising $20,000 to help Brian into accommodation and off the streets. While this might have been a bit too ambitious [...]
May 20, 2013
When Google Hangouts launched last week amid the Google I/O fanfare, one thing that was notably missing was support for tablets. We all know that Android tablets do take a bit of a flogging, but the reality is there’s quite a number of them, and some are quite well loved. Whether it was an oversight [...]
May 16, 2013
Amongst the other things being announced overnight at Google I/O was something we’d certainly anticipated and lusted for, the much-rumoured update to Google’s messaging platforms that would unite them all under one brand — Hangouts. This morning, Hangouts is live on the Play Store and you can update to it right now. The new, stand-alone [...]
May 14, 2013
It’s not surprising that we’re hearing a lot of Google rumours this week, with Google I/O around the corner again. This time, we have Mingchi Kuo, an analyst with KGI Securities with a bit of gossip. Kuo, who has had accurate information regarding Apple product launches in the past, has given 9 to 5 Google [...]
May 14, 2013
At Google’s I/O developer conference in 2012, Google unveiled an unlikely Nexus product, the Nexus Q. The Nexus Q was an Android powered media player, and while it was supposedly going to see a release shortly after I/O last year, it never happened. A month after I/O, Google announced that the launch of the Q [...]
May 14, 2013
Most users of Android will know the simplicity that comes from using a Google account for keeping tabs on your email, contacts, calendars, Play Store purchases and the like. Like it or not, the Google ecosystem works pretty well, and Google are always making little improvements here and there to make it a bit easier [...]
May 13, 2013
A favourite launcher replacement amongst Ausdroid’s writers is TeslaCoil Software’s Nova Launcher, and it’s easy to see why. Released shortly after Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, Nova Launcher feels like a stock AOSP-based launcher, but it has enough extra features and speed to make it a viable alternative to many of the OEM-provided launchers on [...]
May 13, 2013
Though Samsung hasn’t really said too much about a possible Galaxy S 4 mini, the leaked details, user agent profiles showing up in log files, and even some thoughts from the Wall Street Journal tend to suggest that such a product not only is likely, but its arrival on market is imminent. Chinese web service [...]
