This week we’re bringing you something a little bit different as a special, extra episode of the Ausdroid Podcast – it’s actually an episode of the MacTalk Podcast! On Sunday night, our very own Jason Murray participated in a crossover episode of the MacTalk Podcast, hosted by Peter Wells and joined by TechAU‘s Jason Cartwright. [...]

Samsung is launching the Galaxy S 4 tonight in Sydney at the Sydney Opera House – we’re sending Jason Murray to the event Stay updated below with live updates and photos from the event. You can also follow @AusdroidLive for updates! Tweets by @AusdroidLive We’ll have our usual wrap-up after the event finishes, but this [...]

As we mentioned yesterday, the rollout to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has begun for Motorola RAZR HD owners. For those of you who may not know what the update brings, here’s a bit of a heads up straight from Motorola. Key features that you won’t have seen on ICS include Google Now and Google Voice [...]

You may or may not have heard, but some of the Ausdroid team are avid users of Twitter, and one of the things we discussed yesterday at our team lunch in Sydney was the state of Twitter apps for Android. In short, it’s not great. A couple of us have reverted to using the stock [...]

We’ve all heard the stories about how enterprising iPhone users have used Find My iPhone to locate stolen phones, and how there was a court case in the ACT about a stolen iPad being tracked to a garage, and then the thief tried to argue that the iPad’s owner had trespassed on his property by [...]

Users of our Forums will note that in the last couple of days they were taken off-line. Why? In short, the software running them had reached an age – and a vulnerability – whereby the forums were almost completely overrun by spambots, and virtually destroyed. We’ve had an internal discussion about what to do with [...]

For the last 18 months or so, Ausdroid has been served to you from – of all places – California, in the United States of America. We’ve used Linode for our server hosting for quite some time now, and while it has served us well, it’s time to come home. Linode has served us well, [...]

Back in March, we brought you the news that the Samsung Galaxy Note would take a little longer to receive Ice Cream Sandwich – pushing the release back to the second quarter 2012, though there weren’t any reasons given for the delay. We’ll just assume it’s because they were working on some awesome for you. [...]

  When you think of Android, Acer might not have the brand name clout of the bigger names such as HTC or Samsung, but where they have been strong is in the Netbook sector. Perhaps it is that success that has brought Acer’s first Android Tablet offering to market, with the Acer Iconia A500. Surprisingly [...]

Mobile Camp Oz is a free, developer community-driven event which allows people with interests in developing for mobile devices to come together in one location and see speakers (including many expert presenters) present on a wide range of mobile developer topics. Mobile Camp Oz is to be held in Bathurst at the Charles Sturt University [...]

Update: Competition now closed. This could be your chance to be one of the first people in the country to steer Liverpool to the Champions League final while playing the Sony Ericsson Xperia™ PLAY . Everyone else counting down the six minutes until the train arrives? You could finally master Expert Mode on Guitar Hero. [...]

So, it seems as anticipation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1‘s arrival grows, so too does the advertising of said device’s arrival. One Ausdroid reader alerted us to a promotional event being held in Sydney this morning. Sounds like a Samsung gig, as they’re advertising both the Nexus S and Galaxy Tab 10.1 – and [...]

The next installment in the Ausdroid Aussie App Review series has landed, and today we’re looking at Quota from SouthFreo Software. Quota is a simple app, and yet another which has made the transition from iOS to Android. Quota is an app which checks your usage of your mobile account, including data and call usage, [...]