Darren Kemp — Leisure Suit Larry is one of those games that has been around for quite some time now and has seen many games added to the franchise including one that made its way to both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The original game was released in 1987 complete with 64 whole colours in it amazing...

Darren Kemp — It is no secret that I am a fan of the Pebble smart watch. Unfortunately I missed out on the Kickstarter campaign so I am still waiting for my Pebble to ship, but that doesn’t mean I can’t keep track of all of the exciting new developments. A few days ago, RunKeeper saw a nice...

Phil Tann — 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...

James Finnigan — Google Translate is one of the best things ever invented, and its Android application just got even more awesome today with an update that adds support for 6 additional languages, bringing the total to 70. The update also added a new feature called ‘Phrasebook syncing’, which lets you save a number of common phrases for...

Phil Tann — CyanogenMod – possibly the most popular third party ROM for Android – has made a release candidate of their newest offering available. CyanogenMod 10.1 is based on Android Jelly Bean 4.2 and is currently said to support just over 40 devices – as you’d expect, this includes mainstream Samsung devices, various Nexus devices, and a...

Scott Plowman — 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...

James Finnigan — The HTC One seems well-loved by everyone, but we think the world might be a better place if (a) it was rocking the latest build of Android, and (b) Sense 5 would come to other phones, as HTC promised. It seems that HTC might be preparing to deliver on both of these requests, as a...

Darren Kemp — There are plenty of Android launchers in the Play Store but one of the most popular is Apex Launcher. For those of you that haven’t used Apex before, it takes the “stock” Android launcher experience (as found in the Android Open Source Project, or on Nexus devices) and adds a range of customisation options for...

Chris Rowland — Update: Competition is now closed. It’s clear to us how much you like the HTC One — 60% of the readers who voted in our recent poll told us that it’s their pick for flagship phone of 2013. We couldn’t let this result go without something to show we understand what our readers want and...

Phil Tann — SamMobile have released some expected release dates for some upcoming Samsung phones that have caused a bit of a stir. Recently rumoured and subsequently confirmed, the Galaxy Mega phones, a “Galaxy S4 Mini” and the Galaxy S4 Activ (a ruggedised version of the Galaxy S 4) have each had their own share of headlines already...

Phil Tann — Music streaming service Spotify has updated its Android app, bringing a host of changes, updates and bug fixes. For those of you with friends that insist on using $trang3 usernames, this will no longer crash the app When you return to the app, Spotify will return you to where you were previously (ie the song...

Phil Tann — Viber, one of the many cross platform messaging solutions, just got better. The latest update brings an overdue Holo update to the Android app as well as some bug and security fixes. In late April we reported that Viber suffered a major security flaw, and, in what seemed to be a near immediate response, there...

Phil Tann — There aren’t too many hurdles left to big business adopting Android tablets as productivity tools. They integrate with secure email solutions (Exchange and Good are two examples), they run most of the same apps as iOS tablets do, but there’s always been one hurdle — there’s the perception that they don’t integrate too well with...