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Today QANTAS released a new travel app for iPhone users — seen above — which is all well and good for them, but it seems Android users will have to wait around a bit longer to get it. The hard-working team over at Australian Business Traveller (check them out if you travel frequently!) are reporting...
Facebook does a lot of things wrong, but one thing it has gotten right of late was the introduction of ‘Chat Heads‘ for their instant messaging client on Android. Paranoid Android, a relative newcomer to the custom ROM scene, look to be adding support for Chat Heads for all notifications, as well as their own...
Twitter have today updated their official Android app, and although the update isn’t bringing any major new features to the table, it does fix a complaint many users have had: the deeply buried settings button. With the new update, Twitter have added a menu button to the top right of the action bar which gives...
It’s that time of the month, when Google releases the device statistics for the previous months, these statistics act as a guide for developers in telling them which versions of Android show the most amount of users and therefore where they should be targeting their applications. Remember that last month Google changed the way the...
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After many years of whining, crying, stamping our feet and generally yelling at Google in frustration, the search giant has finally brought its Google Music service to Australia. The question now is: was it worth the wait? We want you to be able to make up your own mind. First we’ll look at the features...
A couple of weeks ago we spoke about the Kickstarter campaign for MiiPC – a $99 PC running Android that allows you to monitor and remotely control your kids internet use. Well today, ZeroDesktop have announced that they are giving Kickstarter backers the opportunity to double their memory for just $15 extra, bringing the total...
The HTC M4 has been floating around the rumour mill for quite a while now, but today we’re finally seeing what this device actually looks like thanks to @evleaks and Phonearena. As you can see from the render above, the M4 is ultimately a smaller version of the HTC One. How much smaller, you ask?...
In the smartphone space, there’s really only three real players these days; Android of course, iOS and Windows Phone, with an honourable mention to Blackberry which will probably be out of business within a year or two. Microsoft, being desperate to increase its market share by taking users away from iOS and Android, are ramping...
One of the so-called flagships of 2013 was the Sony Xperia Z, and while it’s being overshadowed at the moment by all the news about the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S 4, the Xperia Z really shouldn’t be overlooked. It’s a bit cheaper now than it was at launch, and when I reviewed...
If the 2,300 mAh battery in the HTC One is not quite fulfilling your needs, then the non-removable battery in the phone means that your options are limited. External battery packs such as the Droid-Ax Portacharge are an option but carrying around an additional device is not desirable. Mophie has announced that they will be...
If you’re one of the lucky few who managed to acquire tickets to this years Google IO, you can now start planning which sessions you intend to attend across the three day event. The Google Developers webpage has added a list of sessions for the event that are broken down into six different ‘tracks’. Developers...
Well, it never rains but it pours. After a video was posted this morning by Dan McLaughlin showing off the Glass menu system via the Glass app on his Galaxy Nexus; Google has gone one step further releasing a highly produced version which shows the timeline in Glass in much greater detail. The whole navigation...
If you’re as keen on Google Glass as the rest of the tech community and to a lesser extent the rest of the world seems to be then you’re keen for any information or news on this exciting product. Google Glass Explorer Dan McLaughlin who previously brought us the Glass unboxing video has recorded the...