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...

Chris Rowland — A couple of weeks ago we announced the Ausdroid 2011 Reader Survey. Without rehashing old material, we wanted to find out more about you – the people who read our site – so that we could provide a better service and run things better internally. We closed off the survey last night, and we were...

Chris Rowland — Last week, I was interviewed for SBS Television by Bill Code. Bill was working on a piece on the growth of Android in Australia, compared to Apple’s iPhone and other smart phones. Of course, we jumped at the chance to have our two cents about Android’s growth, and tonight the story went to air. Although...

Chris Rowland — Only recently we brought to your attention the push from HTC users to have HTC unlock boot-loaders of recent devices. It seems that HTC have heard the call. Announced on their Facebook page this morning was their official end to locking boot-loaders. Whether this means that existing devices with locked boot-loaders will also receive some...

Buzz Moody — Well how about that, just like the original Galaxy S, Samsung is pushing the Galaxy S II out to every major carrier in Australia starting with Optus and sub-carriers to follow. Vodafone has made no mention of the Galaxy S II thus far, however at the Samsung media event taking place now, they mentioned that...

Lucas Burnett — It’s official, it hasn’t been that long and Optus pretty much beat them to the punch, but Telstra have finally announced they’ll be stocking the most anticipated Android handset of the year, the Samsung Galaxy S II. The 4.3″ handset will launch on Telstra in July, bringing with it theoretically blistering HSPA+ speeds on Australia’s...

Lucas Burnett — We received this little tip yesterday and decided to investigate further, and what we found was right on the money. It seems during a live chat with Dell, a reader of the site — Justin — was able to find out from the Dell representative that the Dell Streak 7″ is definitely coming to Australia...

Chris Rowland — It wasn’t long ago (and it wasn’t unexpected, either) that we announced the HTC Desire S would come to Telstra. After their success with the first iteration of the HTC Desire, it was no surprise Telstra would follow up with the Desire S. Today we can share the launch pricing, following HTC and Telstra’s launch...

Chris Rowland — Not long ago we told you about the efforts users were going to in order to convince Motorola to unlock the bootloaders of their devices such as the Atrix. Motorola aren’t alone in providing locked bootloaders. Long the champion of open, hackable hardware, HTC have more recently been releasing devices with locked bootloaders as well,...