April 24, 2012
The same HTC but with a lot more common ‘Sense’ In 2011 HTC got really excited about releasing their Sensation phone, however in light of what Motorola and Samsung were doing with their Dual-Core offerings in that year, this phone fell short of the calibre of 2011 devices. Despite the Sensation not quite being the [...]
March 5, 2012
Today Telstra has confirmed it will be getting 2 of the new HTC One series phones. They are keeping it under wraps to which two they will pick and I know I’m certainly curious about which One’s they could be. HTC announced 4 versions of the One series of devices at MWC. The choices are [...]
February 16, 2012
Today Motorola updated its “Motorola Android Software Upgrade News” page with new information about which phones and Tablets will get Ice Cream Sandwich. I’ve saved you the effort of going through the page by separating out the Australian devices. So from the below table we can see that the RAZR (Optus), Atrix (Telstra) and the [...]
December 15, 2011
Today Rockstar Games has released the highly anticipated Android version of their smash hit game Grand Theft Auto 3. This is a special 10 year anniversary edition of the game that brought sandbox gaming to life back in the early 2000′s. It has impressive HD graphics that are tweaked to optimise smaller screen resolutions and [...]
November 21, 2011
I’ve been using the Samsung Galaxy Note as my primary device for 2 weeks now. It was clear that Samsung didn’t quite know how to market this device or even who their demographic was, we can see this by their confused ads. I now feel like I’ve spent enough time with the Note to say [...]
November 15, 2011
So we’ve all been waiting with bated breath for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to come to our devices. Today is the first firm step in that process. Google today announced today via their AndroidDev twitter account that the source code is now available for the general public. This means that manufacturers can start building [...]
November 8, 2011
We recently saw the announcement of Google Books in the U.K. and it was noted that Australia would receive it shortly. It looks like we didn’t have to wait too long in the end. Google Australia has now put up an official blog post announcing the launch of their new book store called Google eBooks. [...]
November 8, 2011
HTC has started to really bring the heat with their latest phones such as the Rezound and the Amaze that have started hitting the U.S. market, but unfortunately they’re has been no news yet on whether they will make their way to Australian carriers. So when PocketNow got these leaked press shots and a spec [...]
November 4, 2011
So I managed to get my hands on the Samsung Galaxy Note or as some are calling it The Phablet. I’ve only had the phablet for a day now and I can safely say, that it is more phone than tablet and has the feel of a larger Samsung Galaxy S2. It’s large 5.3 inch [...]
October 25, 2011
So we brought the exclusive story to you only a few days ago about Motorola releasing its first device with their new unlockable/re-lockable bootloader solution. Motorola has now officially confirmed it on their blog along with links to pages with information on where to get software images and how to re-lock the bootloader. From my [...]
October 21, 2011
A few months ago I started a campaign to prompt Motorola to unlock their Android devices, now when I say unlock I don’t mean carrier unlocking where you can use a phone with any SIM card, I mean unlocking the bootloader which is the staging area of custom roms on Android handsets. It is having [...]
October 18, 2011
The Motorola Atrix was released on Telstra earlier this year with Android 2.2 (Froyo) on it. This was already behind the ball when Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) source code had already been available for several months. The U.S. version of the Atrix received its Gingerbread update at the end of July, so there was no doubt [...]
October 10, 2011
Samsung and Vodafone today have launched a Pop Up Shop in Sydney that will offer customers hands on play with their Galaxy range of devices as well as the ability to sign up for a plan that will suit you. Samsung are also providing free coffee at this location with a dedicated barista between 10:30AM-2:30PM… [...]
