Chris Rowland — We’ve just finished rounding up today’s Samsung news and rumours, and then this lands in our inbox. After months of rumour and speculation, it looks like Samsung has finally confirmed the launch of the Galaxy S4 mini. In line with the rumours we’ve seen, Samsung has confirmed the Galaxy S4 mini is coming, featuring 4G compatibility, running...

Phil Tann — With a Samsung event set for June 20th, the rumours surrounding upcoming devices that could possibly launch at this event aren’t going to stop. The device currently speculated at launching at the event is the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, however there are definitely other devices within the Galaxy range which could possibly launch and today...

Chris Rowland — Google has rolled out an update to the Google Play Music app today which brings a feature it probably should have had already; the ability to delete songs and albums from your library. Further, you can share songs and add them to playlists from the Now Playing screen, rather than having to do it via...

Daniel Tyson — Acer has today announced the availability of the Acer Iconia A1-810 tablet. An 8″ Android tablet that is aimed at the ‘modern day explorers, adventurers and mobile executives’. Priced at $249 the A1 is a pretty decent tablet, offering some pretty decent specs in a compact size. Andy Chang, General Manager – Product Marketing at...

James Finnigan — With every update, Twitter’s official Android application gets more fantastic. First came the holo redesign, then they fixed the settings button and now they’ve added expandable notifications and a new compose screen. Twitter’s handling of notifications was my number one complaint about the official application, and I’m glad to see that they’ve fixed the problem....

Daniel Tyson — The Google Play store is getting an update which is rolling out to Android devices gradually, the update from 4.1.6 to 4.1.10 is specifically addressing a bug which was causing severe battery drain that was affecting HTC onwers. Android Police had a look into the update and found that it downloads a Network Location Provider...

Daniel Tyson — Google has just announced an update to the Calendar app, adding a couple of new features, including what has been said to be one of the most requested features for Calendar – the ability to customise event and calendar colours on your mobile device. The update which is rolling out over the course of today...

Daniel Tyson — Google teased us with a look at the new Gmail Android App during IO and today has unveiled a new Gmail experience for both the web and mobile, with Android and iOS Apps rolling out over the next few weeks. The new inbox introduces a tabbed view which gives you options for five tabs :...

Chris Rowland — Google Apps is a fantastic service which allows organisations (like Ausdroid) to leverage Google’s cloud and applications under a ‘white label’ arrangement. Through Google Apps, entire organisations, from small ones like Ausdroid to large ones like entire universities in the US, can offer email addresses under their own domain name, with shared contacts, calendar, Drive...

Chris Rowland — Lovers of home media setups will probably be familiar with Plex. Plex is a suite of applications which allow you to serve media from your home computer to other devices, which can themselves run a Plex client application or have embedded support for UPNP media discovery and playback. I personally have a MacMini with a...

Jason Murray — This is the 71th episode of the Ausdroid podcast. We spent a while discussing the weeks news from HTC, Samsung and LG before discussing Jason’s time spent with Google Glass, Daniel’s Ouya and Amazon’s Android-powered entry into the Australian market. Featuring: Jason Murray and Daniel Tyson, with special guest Jason Cartwright. Topics: HTC M4 and...

Daniel Tyson — Telstra has had a pretty solid range of Pre-Paid mobile phones for a while, but it was getting a little old and it appears they’ve decied to refresh the models available. They now offer 4 handsets from manufacturers LG, Huawei, Samsung and HTC. The handsets are nothing terribly fancy, however they do include the updated...

Daniel Tyson — Aldi has started releasing their catalogue in-stores and the latest catalogue shows a 10.1″ Android tablet with a 3G radio for $249. Available in stores from the 5th of June the tablet again comes from Bauhn, which again has details on their website. This latest tablet in the line of Aldi ‘Special Buys’ from Bauhn...