Scott Plowman — Today we learnt that HTC’s Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, has left HTC.  While in isolation, this may seem insignificant, but combine that with reports of many other employees parting ways with HTC in the past few months and we may be seeing people jumping from the ship before it sinks.  On the other hand, we...

Daniel Tyson — It appears that Amazons promise to open up their Android app store to over 200 countries including Australia has come to fruition, with Amazon updating their Android App today to add that additional support. Countries on the list include Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa. The update now allows consumers to purchase and download...

Daniel Tyson — The Caterpillar B15 Smartphone we posted on yesterday, showed that there is definitely interest in a ruggedised Smart Phone of this magnitude, while their website lists details only for European and US distribution, we contacted Caterpillar Phones regarding an Australian release. Kaara Pallop from the Bullit group – the company who co-produce the Caterpillar B15...

Ausdroid Staff — Last month, following the release of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S 4 for sale in Australia, we asked you — our readers — to tell us which one you thought was the smartphone of 2013. We might have left off a couple of options (like Sony’s Xperia Z, which many told us in...

Daniel Tyson — Samsung has traditionally used ARM based CPUs for all their devices, from their own in-house Exynos processors to Qualcomm CPUs. But, according to an entry on graphics benchmark site GFXBench, the next iteration of the 10″ Galaxy Tab could be running an Intel Clovertrail based CPU. The output on GFXBench shows a device listed with...

Ausdroid Staff — Further to yesterday’s pseudo-news that MobiCity will stock the Galaxy S 4 Google Edition in Australia, Google has all but ruled out an international release of this device, stating to CNET that the device will be US only at launch. While this might not be all that surprising because of the likely frequency support of...

Ausdroid Staff — Get your salt licks out folks, because it’s another Samsung rumour. Mobile Tech Review has posted a short video on its YouTube channel of what it claims is a sneak peek at the rumoured Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active, a waterproof and ruggedised version of its flagship phone, the Galaxy S 4. We had a look at...

Phil Tann — Opera, a browser alternative for those who don’t like the stock browser or Chrome, is now available via the Play Store. Opera has come a long way from the first beta build we saw which was unstable, crashed a lot and had more annoying bugs than you could poke a stick at in a lifetime....

Chris Rowland — Google Now, the feature that landed with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, is constantly being worked on and improved by Google, and with the advent of Reminders in Google Now, there’s a cheeky little tip from Google on how you can add these reminders from search results, be they on your handset or on the desktop....

Jason Murray — Yahoo-owned Flickr, a mainstay of online picture-sharing services for many years, today launched a redesigned website and Android app, alongside an announcement that all users will now get 1 TB of space in which to store their photos. The new website puts a greater focus on photos and does away with the traditional (read: old)...

Chris Rowland — Those of you salivating over the announcement of a “Google Edition” of the venerable Samsung Galaxy S 4 need not be worried that you won’t be able to buy this beast in Australia. While there’s been no official announcement of the Galaxy S 4 Google Edition in Australia — yet — we have heard from...

Daniel Tyson — Caterpillar the company that makes some of the largest earth moving equipment around, is moving into Smartphones and just like that equipment, the B15 from CatPhones is a ruggedised device built to withstand potential damage from water, shock and dust. Built in co-operation with Bullitt Mobile – a British company – the B15 is IP67...

Ausdroid Staff — Today we see a rumour emerging that it might not just be Samsung that’s doing an AOSP version of its 2013 flagship, with HTC rumoured to be working on a similarly AOSP-powered version of its One handset. Apparently this rumour kicked off last week when an HTC Rep hinted at the possibility of a stock...