June 14, 2013
After an expensive drop-and-smash of my Galaxy Nexus, I’ve felt the need to protect my devices a little more. My Nexus 4 lives in a red gel case (probably with good reason) and I have screen protectors on all my devices. I was already living the Paranoid Phone Owner life when Buzz had a butterfingers [...]
June 12, 2013
Can Huawei compete in an increasingly crowded super-sized phone market? A lot of our time at Ausdroid is spent paying attention to the top tier of Android device manufacturers – while Samsung is doubtless the heavyweight of the Android world, you’d almost certainly include HTC and LG as peers. Below that, there exists a broad [...]
June 5, 2013
This is the 72rd episode of the Ausdroid podcast. This week, we spent a while discussing the surprising amount of news from HTC, looked at some new LG announcements and looked at Asus and Toshiba’s Computex tablet announcements. Production Note: We had some issues with our audio recording this week and have had to use [...]
May 31, 2013
LG Australia has announced that their just-launched white version of the Nexus 4 will be available in Australia exclusively from Harvey Norman. The phone will set you back $419 – the same price you’d pay for a Nexus 4 from the Google Play store if you include shipping. It’s notable that the Nexus 4 originally [...]
May 29, 2013
This is the 71th episode of the Ausdroid podcast. We spent a while discussing the weeks news from HTC, Samsung and LG before discussing Jason’s time spent with Google Glass, Daniel’s Ouya and Amazon’s Android-powered entry into the Australian market. Featuring: Jason Murray and Daniel Tyson, with special guest Jason Cartwright. Topics: HTC M4 and [...]
May 28, 2013
On Friday, Ausdroid got a chance to go hands-on – or perhaps, eyes-on, if you prefer – with Google Glass, courtesy of SafetyCulture Pty Ltd. SafetyCulture is an Australian developer of OHS software, operating out of Townsville, Queensland. Their main mobile product, iAuditor 2, runs on iOS and Android devices and provides workplace auditing and [...]
May 23, 2013
This is the 70th episode of the Ausdroid podcast, where we promise to feel the week’s Android news at you. This week we had James join us to discuss his review of the Samsung Galaxy S 4, along with the purported “Google edition” that everyone’s hoping won’t just be restricted to the US later next [...]
May 21, 2013
Yahoo-owned Flickr, a mainstay of online picture-sharing services for many years, today launched a redesigned website and Android app, alongside an announcement that all users will now get 1 TB of space in which to store their photos. The new website puts a greater focus on photos and does away with the traditional (read: old) [...]
May 17, 2013
This is a special edition of the Ausdroid podcast dealing with the news from Google’s 2013 I/O keynote. With so many news items flooding out in one day, we thought we should get everyone together to hear their thoughts and opinions while everything’s fresh in our minds. In a stark contrast to last year’s event, [...]
May 16, 2013
Google announced a number of enhancements to Google Play Services at their 2013 I/O keynote today. These new features will roll out to all Android devices running Froyo and above, today. Location APIs Play Services is rolling out three new location-specific APIs today. Fused Location Allows the use of whatever available sensors to get the [...]
May 15, 2013
It was the night before I/O, and all through the Drive, not a creature was stirring not even Jony Ive. The phone cases were hung by the tablets with care, in the hope that Sergey Brin’s skydiving Glass team soon would be there. The leadup to I/O is somewhat like Christmas, so we decided to [...]
May 7, 2013
As Australia recovers from the shock of two flagship launches in the space of a week, and with Google I/O looming next week, noteworthy news was a little light on the ground this week. Instead, we decided to discuss the rumours around Google I/O and the Motorola “X-FON”. Featuring: Jason Murray, Geoff Fieldew and Dan [...]
May 6, 2013
There’s been much speculation recently that Google is planning to overhaul the gaming infrastructure available to Android devices using Google services, now it looks like there’s fire to that smoke. Speculation has been fueled in the past few weeks by the discovery of real-time multiplayer code discovered in the Google Glass APK, followed quickly by [...]
