Lucas Burnett — The ever appearing Red Defy is now ready to make another break for cover, this time landing on Virgin. We reported a number of weeks ago that it was likely to hit Virgin, only to then find out it was Crazy John’s who got the little Red number, well now it’s Virgin’s turn like we...

Chris Rowland — If you’re someone who wants a Samsung Galaxy S II, and is keen on Vodafone, you’ll be pleased to know that Vodafone has announced pre-sale availability of the SGS2, with delivery from late June. As an added bonus for those that pre-order, they’ll receive a special Samsung leather case for the SGS2; something bound to...

Chris Rowland — Just in from Sony Ericsson – from 8th June, the Sony Ericsson Xperia™ PLAY will be available with Optus and Telstra. We attended the launch party not long ago, and it seems the launch is now imminent. Xperia™ PLAY delivers a world’s first – a powerful and cool smartphone, access to over 200,000 apps via...

Buzz Moody — Remember when we told you the Optimus Black from LG was going to Optus in June? Well it turns out our source was bang on the money. Gizmodo Australia reports that all Carriers will be picking up the Optimus Black, which features a 4″ NOVA IPS display (480×800) and the now obligatory 1GHz CPU. Vodafone...

Buzz Moody — Well that’s a tad embarrassing… Pocketnow caught a quick glimpse at what was a secret part of the Motorola website that showed pictures and a little bit of info of some upcoming products that have obviously not been announced. In the screenshots — which were pulled from Pocketnow due to a request from Motorola —...

Buzz Moody — Aaaaaanndddddd we’re done! Thanks for tuning into the live stream, if you did. The downloadable version of the Podcast shall be available on Friday (dependent on Lucas’ house moving progress) Before you say anything: we’ve missed you too over the last two weeks, but don’t worry we’re back. We’ve got a whole lot to talk...

Buzz Moody — Remember when you purchased the latest and greatest HTC Desire HD from Vodafone and you were expecting to get updates in a reasonable timeframe? If your answer to that is “yes!” then you’re in luck today. Vodafone and HTC have just pushed out the 2.3.3 update for the Desire HD over the air, meaning you’ll...

Chris Rowland — Those of you who are regular readers know that we don’t tend to focus on Telco offers all that often here at Ausdroid. In our reader survey, you told us that news and reviews were your favourite topics, and plan news / telco offerings were not a huge priority for you. However, when I caught...

Buzz Moody — Update: The mod is now available from XDA Developers One of the best features of the Galaxy S II, its 8 MP camera, is about to get even better thanks to an upcoming unofficial mod/hack that will improve the bitrate and quality of the 1080p video recording function. At stock the SGSII will record 1080p...

Lucas Burnett — Well it seems like forever ago that we both heard and reviewed the Xperia Arc, then heard it had been delayed, then delayed again. Well wait no more, the Arc has officially started to roll out to Optus dealers today. We have been emailed by a few people in the know, stating that Optus stores...

Buzz Moody — What do you do when you’re the designer and manufacturer of an upcoming quad-core CPU that’s capable of blowing every current device out of the water? You taunt the competition and consumers with it, obviously, and that’s exactly what NVIDIA have done with their Project Kal-El CPU. For those of you who have not met...

Lucas Burnett — As we reported early last week, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer — the Honeycomb packing tablet come laptop/desktop — is finally hitting retails shelves in Australia, starting — you guessed it — today. I’ve called both my local Harvey Norman and JB Hi-Fi and neither have any stock or really had any idea of what...

Chris Rowland — Update: Looks like it could well be a fake.. things aren’t adding up. For further info, have a look at the TechHog open letter here. What you’re looking at above – thanks to TechHog – could well be the first image in the wild of a future Nexus 3 (the name a few sites have...