Phil Tann — Leader offers a breath of fresh air into a rough and stale market with their 10-inch Jellybean Tablet. When you’ve tested, reviewed and owned top end tablet devices, it can sometimes be tempting to dismiss tablets that aren’t in this same category. However, Ausdroid always offers honest reviews on all devices, with criticism and praise...

Daniel Tyson — Evernote, the cross platform note taking app, which has been the go-to app for most people since they got a smart phone; added an update overnight which brings some new features that bring it inline with the iOS version of the app which was updated a couple of weeks ago. According to the official Evernote...

Daniel Tyson — Samsung has apparently begun rolling out an update to the Galaxy S4 owners in Germany. As well as visual enhancements and app updates, the new firmware appears to address one of the major complaints surrounding the device: a markedly decreased amount of internal storage from what was advertised. With only 9.15GB out of the advertised...

Joel Villis — Releasing a stock Android-powered version of your flagship device appears to be the hot new thing these days. Samsung started it with their Galaxy S4 Google Edition, and HTC followed suit a few weeks later with the ‘HTC One with Nexus User Experience’. Now it appears Sony might be getting in on the action too....

Daniel Tyson — The rumoured ‘Phablet’ from HTC currently only known by its codename of the T6 has been named as the HTC One Max by an analyst in a note to investors. Alvin Kwock from J.P. Morgan in Hong Kong, spoke about a number of things but about the T6 he advised that ‘Many carriers are highly...

Joel Villis — During all the hype of Computex 2013 this week, Toshiba announced that they are scrapping their current tablet lineup the Toshiba ‘Thrive’ series and replacing it with a new range of tablets under the ‘Excite’ branding. The 3 new tablets feature the same plastic design, 10-inch form factor and SD card slot and will all...

Daniel Tyson — Lenovo has released two new tablets for sale in the US. The IdeaTab series of tablets are being marketed at the budget end of the range, with both models coming in the 7″ form factor, they have launched with Android 4.2 on-board as standard. The specs on the tablets are very much aimed at the...

Buzz Moody — Kogan have put the Nexus 7 32GB 3G on sale for today only at a price of $289 (+ postage) which puts it $60 cheaper than buying it from the Play Store — postage from both is ~$19. Kogan have placed a limit of 3 per person and they will ship in 2-3 weeks. So...

Buzz Moody — In a move that brings more of core Android to the Play Store for everyone to enjoy, Google have added the stock keyboard to the Play Store. If you already own a Nexus device, or are running a stock Android ROM, you’ll find the update in the Play Store. For people who are running a...

Phil Tann — After a bit of a false start a couple of weeks ago, Vodafone and Samsung are now pushing the 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update to Galaxy SII owners. While most of these users are likely coming to the end of their contract, there’s still a huge number of users out there sporting the once flagship of...

Phil Tann — Falcon Pro is currently in Beta for one of the biggest user issues on their request list: multi-account support. While it’s currently in beta, the testing is going extremely well and a wider release through the Play Store won’t be far away at all. For anyone keen to have a look at the Beta, you...

Daniel Tyson — Looks like the HTC One ‘Mini’ or M4 as its been known has leaked ahead of what is being said to be an August launch. The phone has shown up on Estonian site forte.delfi.ee and they’ve supplied the details on what hardware their sample contains. The hardware on the device includes a 4.3-inch 720p display,...

Jason Murray — This is the 72rd episode of the Ausdroid podcast. This week, we spent a while discussing the surprising amount of news from HTC, looked at some new LG announcements and looked at Asus and Toshiba’s Computex tablet announcements. Production Note: We had some issues with our audio recording this week and have had to use...