March 27, 2013
When Samsung launched the Galaxy S 4 a few weeks ago, they announced a number of accessories alongside the device. Samsung talked up a few things such as the flip cover and the S Band, but gave little information about pricing or availability. SmaMobile and SamsungMania have published leaked details for all Galaxy S 4 accessories. [...]
March 15, 2013
There were a huge number of different features announced at Samsung’s launch of the Galaxy S 4 today, some of which we’d heard of before and some of which were brand new. Here is some information on a few of the more major announcements: Camera Features Samsung announced a wide range of features which use [...]
March 1, 2013
Over the last few months, The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) have been releasing their “Communications 2011-2012” series of research reports, looking at the many different ways we Australians use the Internet. The third and final report of the series was released recently, and looks at the take-up and use of smartphones and tablets [...]
February 19, 2013
Last year, Telstra teamed up with the AFL to develop AFL Live, an app that allowed you to watch live matches anywhere on your mobile device, as well as check scores, stats and the latest news. While it was a pretty handy app, there were two major issues. Firstly, the live matches were only available [...]
February 2, 2013
Huawei steps into the world of quad-core devices, but can it find mainstream success? You could be forgiven for not really knowing much about Chinese company Huawei (It’s pronounced ‘wah-way’, in case you were wondering). They are actually the largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world, but have been relatively low-key in the Australian market, [...]
January 30, 2013
Good news for owners of the unbranded Australian version of the S-Pen wielding Galaxy Note 10.1 which launched last year running the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android, the update to Android 4.1.2 is now available via Kies. The update was listed in the @SamKiesUpdate tweet stream : Australia GT-N8020 update N8020XXBMA3/N8020XSABMA2(Android 4.1.2) sammobile.com/kies — [...]
November 20, 2012
Near Field Communication technology – or NFC – is a feature that’s been appearing more recently on a few devices (such as the Samsung Galaxy S III and the Nexus 4), but hasn’t had much use here in Australia. NFC proponents have been banging the mobile payments drum for a while now, and while Google’s [...]
August 29, 2012
Fans of video games would probably be aware of Good Game, a half-hourly TV show on ABC 2 on Tuesday nights which features news, reviews and more from the world of gaming. The Good Game team released an iOS app earlier in the year, with promises that an Android version would be following soon. Well, [...]
August 10, 2012
For some time now, Telstra have had a ‘Smartphone Software Updates’ page on their website, a place where they could list any information they might have about various different updates for their handsets. While this is a great idea in theory, it didn’t really work out quite so well in practice. There was only very [...]
