Today we learnt that HTC’s Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, has left HTC.  While in isolation, this may seem insignificant, but combine that with reports of many other employees parting ways with HTC in the past few months and we may be seeing people jumping from the ship before it sinks.  On the other hand, we [...]

When Google finally made Google Play Music available in Australia last month, the first criticisms were from users who had already begun using streaming services such as Spotify, MOG or JB Hifi Now. At the Google IO Keynote on Thursday morning however Google announced their own streaming music service – Google Music All Access. Unfortunately, [...]

Most people who have owned a Nexus One, a Galaxy Nexus or a Nexus 4 will know and love the functionality that the RGB notification light brings to their device. The lack of notification light from the Nexus 7 was a glaring omission at the time of its release, but it appears that Google may be [...]

Back in November last year we reported on an interesting offer from Carphone Warehouse which involved a white LG Nexus 4.  This unfortunately failed to materialise and was largely forgotten about until January when someone snapped a photo of the mythical white Nexus 4 in the wild.  The device was rumoured to have been given [...]

Today, a device that could be the fabled Motorola X Phone (or XFON) has shown up in FCC documents, with sketches that look very similar to last week’s leaked picture of the “ATT XFON”. The FCC lists the device specifications as Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, and LTE capable, although it’s using AT&T LTE bands which are [...]

When the first rumour of an “X Phone” made by Motorola as directed by Google surfaced it was late last year.  Since then the rumours have trickled in in dribs and drabs. The X Phone is/was meant to be Google’s “shoot for the stars” device.  A phone that pushes the envelope of innovation, showing the [...]

If you’re like me, you’re probably counting down the days to Google I/O 2013. The Ausdroid staff are already planning their late-night live stream munchies and pre-writing our rants and raves to bring you our unique flavour of coverage — because let’s face it, it’s pretty much Android Christmas, only equalled in magnitude by ACTUAL [...]

A few days ago the development team behind Paranoid Android announced on Google+ that they were working on their own version of the multi-window/overlay feature showcased originally by Samsung on their Galaxy line of devices. James showed of the basic concept in his post but today they have released a new video which explains Halo [...]

A few days ago I had a little birdie whisper in my ear about the Motorola Ghost, speculating that it would be the Nexus 4 refreshed.   Today evleaks who have a good reputation for accurate leaks tweeted out some pictures of said phone.  The second photo they tweeted apparently showed the back of the phone [...]

Anyone know of a phone that has a 720p display, run by a Adreno 320 GPU, housing a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro, sporting 2GB of RAM and running pure vanilla Android? I do. And it’s not the Nexus 4 … at least, not as we know it. I’m talking about the Motorola XT912A, codenamed “Ghost”. [...]

  With all the different smartwatches being brandied about the smart cookies at T3 have cooked up a Google Nexus smartwatch concept that looked extremely enticing to me.  While this is concept only it’s certainly worth sharing with everyone here. I am surprised they didn’t put curved glass on this concept considering LG saying that [...]

If you’ve ever broken the USB port on your phone, or had USB/MTP driver issues, you’ll most likely have come across Airdroid. The app allows you connect to your phone wirelessly via your PC, Mac, Chromebook, etc and perform a variety of useful tasks. You’ve always been able to easily transfer files between the two [...]

With two major phones launching this week, we’re seeing a large number of people with their first Android handset, so we thought we’d put together this brief guide to Android. Now to start with welcome to the most popular mobile operating system on the planet. Yes, you’ve decided to take the plunge and purchase an [...]