ZUS Kevlar Cable – Review
Cables, in our modern battery powered and data-driven lives they are both a necessity and a source of much pain, or at least they can be. Unfortunately, most contemporary smartphones simply don't give you enough battery power to...
Micflip Reversible Micro USB – Review
All USB cables are not made equal. We're the first to espouse that you don't have to buy oxygen sealed digital cables for 35x the price of any reasonable cable. At the same time, your $0.35 cable from...
Samsung Gear VR (2015) — Review
Samsung's Gear VR has gone through three iterations before reaching a review bench at Ausdroid. The first iteration -- the original Gear VR -- was kind of limited, and only worked with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. An Innovator...
Sonos Play:5 — Review
It was only a couple of months ago that Sonos introduced the Play:5 as the newest member of their speaker family and being somewhat into music, audio equipment and generally enjoying good sound I took one for the team...
Review: Garmin Vivosmart HR
Kleenex, Hoover, Glad Wrap, Band-aid, Fitbit. All brands that are synonymous with the products they represent. It makes it hard for other brands to break into their respective fields. Fitbit’s dominance of the fitness band industry through...
Review – Dog & Bone LockSmart
We were recently invited to attend the launch for Dog and Bone's LockSmart Bluetooth padlock and came away eager to get some one on one hands-on time with the device. That wish was soon granted, and following a little...
Sonos Play:5 — First Impressions
I had a double dose of excitement this week; installation of NBN to my house and the delivery of the Sonos Play:5 unit for review. The timing of the Sonos delivery seemed to compliment the extra...
Bose Soundtouch 10 — Accessory Review
A couple of months ago now, Bose launched their new range of SoundTouch wireless audio systems, and for that two months since, I've been playing with a Bose SoundTouch 10 here in the Ausdroid office. In fact, I've taken...
Focal Sphear in-ear headphones — Review
Unless you’re really into audio you may not have heard of Focal (unless you read my review of their Spirit One S headphones) but they’re a solid brand who have a great name in overseas markets. They’re nothing like...
Kingston DataTraveller microDuo 3C — Review
The recent emergence of USB-C connections on laptops (Macbook and Chromebook Pixel 2), as well as on the recently announced OnePlus 2, as well as Google's announcement that they will be supporting USB-C on Nexus devices going forward, has...
Review: Android-compatible Bose QuietComfort 20 Headphones
Last year I reviewed the newly released Bose SoundSport and SoundTrue in-ear headphones and was extremely impressed with them. The sound clarity and range they produced far exceeded any in-ear headphones I have even used before. The...
Huawei Talkband B2 — Review
Already a major player in mobile networking technology and the consumer mobile phone business, Huawei has been making more moves into more consumer tech areas over the last couple of years. Huawei launched their first combination fitness band/bluetooth headset,...
Bose Soundlink Mini II Bluetooth — Hands On
With multiple streaming music services now available to all there's a new battlefield emerging for mobile accessories and it's not headphones, it's speakers; specifically mobile speakers that have a battery of their own and link to your device via...
Garmin nuviCam — Review
When we received some news about Garmin's latest GPS, dubbed nüviCam LMT, in our press-release inbox the other week, I decided to take a closer look. Why? What does this have to do with Ausdroid? Well, it's a GPS...
Linksys EA8500 — Review
Ausdroid was lucky enough to make the acquaintance of Linksys at the recent Lizzies awards night in Sydney, and we picked up a Linksys EA8500 Router as a prize on the night. Though a prize, we undertook to take...