Buzz Moody — While Google didn’t unveil anything new for the Nexus 4, they did partner up with Samsung to announce the Galaxy S4 running stock Android 4.2 with a pure Nexus experience. As with every other Nexus device, updates will come directly from Google in a timely fashion in comparison to the staggered release from Samsung with...

Buzz Moody — Google’s Hugo Barra took the stage at Google I/O to announce some pretty amazing stats for the Google Play Store. Those can be broken down into the following: 48 billion app installs 2.5 billion installs in the last month More money paid out to developers since the start of 2013 compared to the whole of...

Buzz Moody — At Google I/O, Android lead Sundar Pichai announced that Google has surpassed 900 million activations worldwide. Although that number is astounding, he insisted that Google would push into markets where penetration of Android was below 10% — these markets mainly lie in developing nations. Google+

Buzz Moody — Google I/O isn’t even underway yet, and Google Play Games still hasn’t been given it’s official titled or been unveiled at all, but developers are stating that they’ve integrated the service into the games already. One game is Euphloria HD which states in its changelog that “Google Play Games achievements have been added!“. What exactly...

Buzz Moody — Google has done a little bit of a refresh of the Google Play Store, adding not much in terms of functionality, but there are a few UI tweaks that are welcomed. The content section buttons on the main screen have a new design that’s a little more fresh and less flat-design. The open/install/update/uninstall buttons are...

Buzz Moody — Just hours before Google I/O even begins, The Verge has come across a mention of Android 4.3 on Android’s official developer website. The mention of the next version of Android has since been removed. We don’t know much about what will be in Android 4.3, but that screenshot tells us that security is one area...

Daniel Tyson — The Nexus 4 launched back in October last year with Bluetooth 3.0. Stock Android has never supported the low power consumption Bluetooth 4.0 specification, although Google engineers have been reported as advising that the next version of Android would support it. Well it appears that just hours out from the keynote address for Google IO,...

Daniel Tyson — Looks like the rumours were true HP has indeed been working on a 10″ Android system and it’s called the Slatebook 10 x2. The newly announced ‘detachable’ will be the first member of the HP x2 line to run Android 4.2.2. Hardware wise the tablet will run the Tegra 4 SoC, making it the first...

Matt Booth — Norton Mobile Security promises a lot on the packet; so many features that it concerned me how it could achieve this without impacting system performance and battery life. The Lite version of Norton Mobile Security is free and packs a decent set of features. The Pro version will set you back a $29.99 annual subscription...

Daniel Tyson — Put this one firmly in the rumour catgeory folks, but according to Geek.com Samsung and Google have gotten together and are planning to release a Galaxy S4 running an AOSP version of Android, which will be launched during the keynote at IO, due to start at 2am tomorrow morning Australian Eastern time. The rumour states...

Daniel Tyson — The possibility of a White Nexus 4 has been with us for some time, CarPhone Warehouse first sparked the rumour back in November last year and we first saw it in January this year and ever since the unicorn White Nexus 4 has been hunted. Well, it appears that Qualcomm have one. At ‘The Mobile...

Daniel Tyson — Last night in Orlando Florida, Blackberry held their Blackberry Live 2013 event at which CEO Thorsten Heins announced among other more Blackberry centric topics, that they would be extending the Blackberry Messenger(BBM) service to Android and iOS – no mention of WP8 – this summer or Winter for us in the Southern Hemisphere. Thorstein advised...

Daniel Tyson — After extending availability of Google Music to Australia as well as six other countries, it appears from a report from both TheVerge and The New York Times that Google is looking to launch a streaming music service to compete with the likes of Spotify and MOG. The service will be added to YouTube as well...