Early this morning, Jason Murray and I attended an Optus network briefing in Sydney, presented by Guenther Ottendorfer, Optus’ Managing Director of Networks and Andrew Smith, Vice President of Mobile Radio Engineering. The focus of Optus’ briefing was to discuss the improvements to Optus’ network over the last twelve months, to look at what’s coming [...]

In preparation for their major network update in June, Vodafone have started pushing out the 4.1.2 update to the Samsung Galaxy Note II. The update brings not only the obvious Jellybean update, but also the required software tweaks for the phone to be 4G capable on the upgraded Vodafone network. The update began its push [...]

Late last year, Kogan entered the Australian telecommunications business as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, offering a number of attractive plans that promised to deliver services to Australian consumers at a rate befitting the company’s name. Could Australia’s disruptive entrepreneur, Ruslan Kogan, break into one of the toughest spaces and make a name for himself? [...]

Virgin Mobile has announced that they will be offering the 4G-enabled Sony Xperia SP through their website and in Virgin Mobile stores nationally from today. While the global version of the Sony Xperia SP comes in Black, White and Red, Virgin Mobile only list the Black model on their website. The phone, which sits nicely [...]

If you are after the Galaxy S 4 on Telstra, your wait is over. Telstra have just let us know that they are now taking pre-orders online, which will begin shipping next week. Considering that Optus’ pre-orders sold out in less than one day, I’d recommend getting in as soon as possible. You can always [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 hits store shelves in Australia tomorrow. Despite recent reports of stock shortages in the US, it seems that Australian carriers are doing fine. Optus tweeted on Wednesday that their online preorders had sold out, but has advised us that all of their bricks-and-mortar stores will be carrying the device tomorrow as [...]

Now that we have the launch availability from Vodafone, Optus, and Virgin, it’s time for Telstra to join the party, and this morning, they have. Telstra customers can purchase GALAXY S4 on the $80 Every Day Connect Plan with a $7 handset repayment per month (after using an included MRO Bonus) with $800 worth of [...]

The flurry of activity continues as carriers rush to press with their plans and pricing for the much anticipated Samsung Galaxy S4. As will the other carriers, Virgin will have the Galaxy S4 available as of this Saturday the 27th of April across their range of plans. Existing Virgin Mobile Australia customers who re-contract with [...]

Optus has revealed their plans for the Samsung Galaxy S 4, announcing that the phone will be available to pre-order online from Wednesday 24th April, with stock being in-stores at selected ‘yes’ Optus stores and retail partners from Saturday the 27th of April. The Galaxy S 4 will be available on a 24 month contract [...]

In preparation for the pending launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4 tomorrow in Samsung stores and Saturday for retail, Ausdroid spoke to the Australian carriers for a statement as to their intent with plans and handset repayments. Vodafone’s plans are very much as expected and discussed on a recent Ausdroid Podcast (based on 24 month [...]

There’s an air of excitement around tech circles tonight waiting for the news of when we can get our hands on the latest and greatest device from Samsung, the Galaxy S4. Ausdroid’s Jason Murray is at the launch event tonight and we’ve received confirmation that the Galaxy S4 will be available tomorrow from Samsung Experience [...]

With the HTC One hitting the streets today, Kieran Mcilwain from Vodafone has kindly provided an unboxing video which shows off the phone in all its glory. The unboxing shows off the phone as well as the accessories included, Spoiler Alert it has comes with a USB Cable, Charger, headset, SIM eject tool and warranty [...]

Good news for people out there who have multiple devices capable of using SIM cards, the days of handling multiple accounts could soon be over. Telstra has announced that in the coming months they will be adding data sharing plans to their range of plans. The post on the Telstra Exchange blogs lists all the [...]