According to the Asus Australia Facebook page they are giving an eta of July for both the Padfone and the TF700 tablet. The Padfone is the dual purpose device that allows you to dock your phone into a Tablet shell to allow you to work on a larger screen when required with the additional functionality of a keyboard dock added as well. The TF700 is the Tegra 3 packing tablet with the full HD Screen which offers a resolution of 1920×1200 @ 224ppi. On the TF700 :

thanks for your interest, TF700 is expected to arrive around…

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HTC has released a schedule for their release of Ice Cream Sandwich to devices they’ve advised will be receiving the update. They’ve advised that the Android 4.0 update will include Sense 3.6, not the latest version of Sense 4.0 which is included with their One series because it requires dedicated hardware, which is not available on all devices.

HTC have said that devices with 512MB ROM or less will not be upgraded to Android 4.0, these devices include the HTC ChaCha, HTC Salsa, HTC Wildfire S, HTC Explorer and of course my trusty old Nexus One and others not…

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We first learned about Google purchasing Motorola Mobility back in August last year and today Larry Page has taken to the Google Blog to announce that the deal has been completed, just days after Chinese regulators approved the purchase. The current CEO Sanjay Jha has stepped down and will be replaced by long-time Googler Dennis Woodside.

The sale for 12.5 Billion dollars will see Google take ownership of Motorola Mobility’s 17,000 patents and according to Tech Crunch Motorola could see staff layoffs as part of efforts to turn around it’s financial status, which is quite frankly not great,…

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Hey everybody as always it’s Ausdroid night. We are gonna break down this weeks news and bring it to you the only way we know how. So run down to your local bottlo, throw some snags on the Barbie because tonight is going to go off. Join us at 8:30 AEST and join in the banter.

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It was a quiet week for Ausdroid Podcast 32, leaving us with a lot of time to chat about all the latest tech happenings and our deep, inner thoughts about life. There was a bit of news in regards to the HTC One XL: the Telstra delay and the MobiCity launch. The Galaxy S III got a mention, as did Instagram and Phillips new speakers.

Hosts: Buzz Moody, Daniel Tyson, Matt Booth.

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After reviewing the HTC One XL, I decided that I may as well root it seeing as though there’s currently no way to unlock the bootloader officially and unofficially. It was actually one of the easiest phones to root — at least it was for me. Just download the needed files, follow the instructions, and you’re done! This process works for the One XL from MobiCity and should work perfectly for the Telstra variant once it launches.

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HTC has upped its game from the One X to the LTE-enabled One XL and it’s worth every cent.

The HTC One XL isn’t a design we’ve never seen before; it’s the HTC One X with a few tweaks. Well, by “tweaks”, we mean some pretty awesome under-the-hood changes. It picks up where the One X left off, but has moved from a Quad-Core Tegra 3 CPU to a Dual-Core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 chipset as well as an LTE modem for break-neck mobile data speeds (in Telstra’s 4G coverage, obviously). Don’t let the change from 4 cores…

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After a false start late last month that turned out to only be for the US market, it appears that Sony will finally update their Tablet S to Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of this Month. The tweet confirming the Ice Cream Sandwich update will be coming to all regions, came from the official twitter feed for Sony US :

CNet has advised in their post that a Sony rep has confirmed that Tablet P owners can also expect their Ice Cream Sandwwich by the end of the…

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Last years 12.5 Billion dollar purchase of Motorola by Google kind of came out of the blue and shocked everyone. Eurpoean and US regulators approved the purchase earlier this year but the Chinese have been more hesitant however they have finally approved the deal with the stipulation that Google keeps Android free for a minimum of 5 years and with the approval by China means that the sale could be finalised as early as next week.

Google has always supplied the Android source code via AOSP(Android Open Source Project) to anyone who wants to compile the source code, by doing so…

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Looks aren`t always everything, but sometimes they`re enough

I`ve been getting to this for nearly 5 months, but I’ve finally gotten here. To be fair, this phone came out at the same time my Galaxy Nexus arrived. I attended the launch of the Huawei Vision back in November, which was held at the White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney. The Vision was handed out to attendees and was pre-loaded with an augmented reality app which reacted to various QR Codes placed around the gallery on exhibits, quite a novel approach and really got me to focus on the phone…

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Android “hacker” extraordinaire, Chainfire, has already rooted the Samsung Galaxy S III, and it hasn’t even launched yet. Chainfire said he couldn’t release the insecure kernel he has that will allow root access, as it might be traced back to the helpful leaker. However, he did say that any serious developer could achieve the same thing in around 10 minutes if they followed the instructions he gave on XDA. So by the time the Galaxy S III actually launches, root access will no doubt be readily available for everyone.

As usual credit where credit is due for Samsung; they’ve…

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Motorola has updated its schedule for rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich to devices, they’ve also included details on the upgrade development cycle, to help explain at which stage of planning or implementation the upgrade is at for your device. It’s an interesting read anyway, but I do think that the speed of updates needs to seriously be sped up once the purchase by Google is completed.

Point of note Motorola has pointed out that all devices listed have a minimum of 1G of RAM. The relevant updates for Australia…

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You`re feeling like Pizza but you`re wanting something more Gourmet than the average large chain pizza fare on offer, then you`re probably going to go with a Crust Gourmet Pizza. They’ve just released their Android app to help you out when ordering, the app allows you to login with your VIPP(Very Important Pizza Person) account or you can also register in the app, registering as a VIPP gets you free delivery on orders over $20, so it’s worth it.

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