Buzz Moody — Testing. Skype have today added 17 new devices to their Video Calling service on Android. Although a few of these devices — listed below — were able to have Skype Video Calling over a month ago thanks to a leaked / hacked APK, it’s good to see Skype further pushing Video Calling on the Android...

Buzz Moody — Android is getting battered by big companies claiming its infringing on patents left, right and center. We’ve seen this clearly here in Australia with the latest attack by Apple at Samsung, and Google wants it to stop. They don’t want the patent system to cease existence, rather they want it to once again have meaning....

Buzz Moody — It looks as though Vodafone are taking a bit of a hint from Telstra here by letting users know when their devices may or may not be updated in the near future. Luckily for most users they’ve already been updated to the latest version(s) of Android over the past few weeks, however, there are still...

Buzz Moody — Do you remember the Galaxy Tab 10.1v? You know, the device that went to Vodafone after being killed off by Samsung as they recreated it as the thinner, more Apple hating, Galaxy Tab 10.1. Anyway.. Vodafone has just put a list of Android devices up on their blog along with dates of software updates if...

Buzz Moody — Well there you go ladies and gents, Samsung Australia have indeed pushed back the launch event they had planned for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 on August 11th, according to Gizmodo AU. Here’s what Samsung had to say. Postponement of Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 Media Launch Event 11th August 2011 In light of the current legal...

Buzz Moody — Do you remember NVIDIA’s Project Kal-El? How could you not? It’s NVIDIA’s Quad-Core CPU / Dodeca-Core GPU processing chip, and it’s going to rock your world later this spring. NVIDIA have told Android Central that “Project Kal-El-powered tablets are coming this Fall [Spring here], and phones around the CES 2012 timeframe”. This is extremely exciting...

Buzz Moody — Well here’s something pretty major in regards to the upcoming Ice-Cream Sandwich (or Android 4.0) release later this year; Texas Instruments OMAP 4 is to be CPU of choice behind the release, much like Tegra 2 was the CPU of choice for Honeycomb tablets before the Android 3.2 release. This news came about from a...

Lucas Burnett — Hey hey everybody, we are back from a three week break and we are ready to rock! In the three weeks we have been off the air, a lot has happened and when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. So sit back relax, grab a wine or a beer and enjoy what we...

Buzz Moody — There’s been a bit of fuss lately about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and its availability in Australia lately, however, in today’s Wednesday Deal we’re offering the 16GB 3G Galaxy Tab 10.1, which if purchased today will arrive before it’s even launched here in Australia. We’re also offering the Telstra NextG variant of the HTC...

Buzz Moody — Telstra have stated they’ll be ceasing use of their 2100MHz 3G network which is currently shared with VHA (Voda + Three) and currently operates in metropolitan areas (view coverage map) on the 1st of January next year. Although this isn’t directly related to Android in Australia, I still think it’s worth reporting on as I...

Buzz Moody — We’ve heard from a couple of Asus Eee Pad Transformer owners that they’ve successfully updated their Honeycomb tablets to Android 3.2. This latest version of Android brings the ‘zoom’ feature that increases the size of applications that aren’t tablet-optimised, you can read about it here. The update should be coming OTA so keep an eye...

Buzz Moody — Samsung have just released the Android 2.3.3 update for the Galaxy S on Optus. To install the update you’ll to install Samsung Kies, connect your Galaxy S to your computer and then update. Android 2.3.3 brings many speed and bugfixes to the Samsung Galaxy S, which have certainly been needed. Let us know how you...

Buzz Moody — Update: We’ve reached out to Samsung AU asking what the difference between the Galaxy Tab 10.1 variant Apple complained about and the one Samsung plan to sell here is. After reaching out to Samsung late last night for a statement in regards to Apple’s complaint to the Federal Court of Australia about the Galaxy Tab...