Chris Rowland — In December last, Google told owners of the company’s former flagship mobile device, the Nexus One, that they would receive an Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) update within a couple of weeks. It’s now the middle of February 2011, and there’s no 2.3 update to be seen. However, this might soon be changing. The whispers around the...

Chris Rowland — Overnight at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HTC revealed its first tablet computer, a lightweight 7-inch device named Flyer. It sports some impressive features, following some considerable R&D as discussed by Peter Chou, HTC’s chief executive: We are not interested in rushing out another me-too device. We took time to understand how people use...

Chris Rowland — Astute readers will know that there’s many different versions of Android out there at the moment. The newest versions that we know of are Honeycomb (aka 3.0) which is, for the moment, a tablet-centric version of Android. Honeycomb includes some pretty cool features like a new graphical look, revamped multitasking interface, and an improved notification...

Chris Rowland — Update: According to PCWorld, the Desire S will in fact run Gingerbread 2.4. Overnight at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Telstra announced that it would release the HTC Desire S on the Next G network in Australia.  The HTC Desire was a huge success for Telstra in 2010, being the first mass-market Android phone to...

Chris Rowland — Yesterday afternoon HTC announced a handful of ‘new’ phones. We say ‘new’, because to be honest, there’s not a lot that’s new about these phones – they look like last year’s models with a bit more lipstick, a bit more polish, but not much difference under the hood. They do sport some new features though...

Buzz Moody — Sony Ericsson AU have just confirmed to us that the Xperia Play will come to Australia during Q2 (April – June). We’ve obviously not had a play with one yet, but we’re dying to. No carriers or pricing has been released yet, so we’re clueless as to whom will be picking this baby up. Surely...

— UPDATE: If this comment (purportedly from Vodafone) is to be believed, this pricing isn’t actually real, and it’s taken from a dummy page. Guess we’ll keep an eye and ear out and see what eventuates. Vodafone’s online shop has been updated to include pricing details for the Android-powered Samsung Nexus S smartphone. Running Gingerbread (aka...

Buzz Moody — Vodafone have confirmed to us via Twitter, and on their website, that the Nexus S that they stock will be using Super Clear LCD technology instead of Super AMOLED. Why? Well we all know Samsung has some stuff in the pipeline that they are going to need parts for, and as we’ve learnt from the...

Lucas Burnett — Let the rumour mill begin. I have been able to get my hands on a lovely little morsel of info surrounding LG‘s newest Android offering. Now it’s definitely not 100% guaranteed so take it with a bucket of salt but it does seem feasible to a degree. The rumour? Well LG just might be planning to launch...

Buzz Moody — Update: You’ll be able to register your interest from tomorrow morning at 9AM. With a bit of luck they’ll supply more than the 1,000 Nexus Ones Update 2: Thanks to a keen eyed commenter, it seems as though Vodafone have listed the Nexus S with only one 12 month plan on offer. The 45 Infinite,...

Buzz Moody — So we’re thinking we might be onto something here.. If you remember back to the days when we were all waiting with bated breath to see an announcement of the Nexus One in this great land, it was first announced in the UK on Vodafone, then later it snuck out quickly on Vodafone AU. Now,...

Buzz Moody — A few days back I contacted the Commonwealth, NAB and Westpac via Twitter to see if they were working on native applications for Android devices, and lo and behold, they are! The NAB is well ahead with an application already available on the Android Market. Westpac, as you can see above, look to be well...

— Well it’s finally official, Sony Ericsson’s worst kept secret, the Xperia Play aka the Playstation Phone, is due to be officially unveiled at MWC on the 13th of February. Sporting the ususal suspects of hardware, 1GHz single core Qualcomm processor and Ardeno 205 graphics. It’s runs on a 4″ 854 x 480 LCD which is the...