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Plenty of people have asked us how to root the Samsung Galaxy S II, so we figured it was about time we shared a little walkthrough with you. We’ve made it as easy as can be, so you can follow along and you too can root your own Galaxy S II. Before we jump into...
Update: We’ve tried Skype Video calling on Android handsets between the various Ausdroid offices in Sydney Melbourne and Perth and it works just fine.. though over 3G, there can be a bit of lag but it’s quite usable. Let us know how you’ve found it. Finally, an update to Skype nearly every user of the...
Note: It does seem as though bandwidth was an issue when recording this podcast. During post production, the number of areas of viewed as samples seemed to be perfect, but the start of the audio recorded during the podcast, does seem to be jumpy and have a few issues. We apologise for this and as...
Facebook addicts will be able to get their fix a whole lot quicker and more easily courtesy of Vodafone and HTC who today announced the Salsa and the ChaCha, available in stores Wednesday 6 July. The HTC Salsa has a 3.4″ 480×320 resolution screen and a body reminiscent of the Hero and the Legend with...
Is it that time again? Please tell me it is? Yes it is, everyone celebrate! It’s been two weeks since we last invaded your audio privacy and it’s about to go down all over again. This week is a bit different, we answer your questions from the last fortnight and also get down and dirty...
Update: The Sonic is now available from Dick Smith online for $248 Today Huawei held a media event up in Sydney to showcase some of their existing and new products that they plan to launch here in Australia before the end of the year. Besides mentions and a showing off of the MediaPad, Huawei announced...
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So you’re holding out for the HTC Sensation on Telstra, but you’re unsure of when you’ll have your hands on it? Fret no more. A source has just informed us that the Dual-Core, Sense UI 3.0 toting HTC Sensation will be available from Telstra on July 12th. As for plan pricing, we were told that...
Well we’ve just read it straight from the horse’s mouth, there are over 500,000 (yes, half a million) Android devices activated each and every single day around the world, and the rate is growing at 4.4% every week — amazing. This is a 150,000+ jump over the last activation numbers we received back in April...
Australia’s first 3D phone, the LG Optimus 3D is almost here and if that isn’t enough for you, you can now pre-order it via Optus’ website right now! Optus have opened up the pre-order page for the dual everything handset, offering new customers only, the chance to get the Optimus 3D by the 4th of...
Update: After speaking with our very own Matt Booth, he brought up a very good point that may prove some of this information as inaccurate. Samsung would be extremely unlikely to use a Texas Instruments SoC in favour of their own Exynos SoC. The main differences are, the clock speed and GPU used. The OMAP4460...
Pricing: We haven’t heard a word on pricing just yet. Big T might be working out how to better price the SGSII alongside the Sensation. Yay for the Rumour Mill which is currently pumping out enough rumours to power a small town, or at least my tech-filled house. What we’ve got here is a tidbit...
A few days ago we reported on a rumour from a very trusted source that the HTC EVO 3D was making the rounds at Telstra. Before then we didn’t really have any official word on a GSM version of this exclusively CDMA device, well that has all changed. Today HTC officially announced the EVO 3D...
More exciting news coming out of the Telstra camp today, with Big T saying they will announce the release date and hopefully pricing this Thursday (30th). Telstra will be the last carrier to bring the Galaxy S II to market, though that won’t hold them back from saying the Galaxy S II is better on...