Ausdroid Exclusive Virgin Mobile have confirmed to Ausdroid that they are changing their focus in Australia, but they are not pulling out from the Australian market. Quite the contrary. How did this start? Overnight we received an interesting rumour via our anonymous tip facility. Some of these tips have been — in the past — [...]

Over the last few months, The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) have been releasing their “Communications 2011-2012” series of research reports, looking at the many different ways we Australians use the Internet. The third and final report of the series was released recently, and looks at the take-up and use of smartphones and tablets [...]

While casually running through and continually playing with my newly acquired Nexus devices, the more I use them, the more I realise that these devices aren’t targeted at me. But why? How could this be? I use as many Google services as I can because I like the products, the look and feel and the [...]

A couple of days ago we received an email from a company called aussiePADS, telling us that they are busy developing a new, Australian-made Android tablet based on the 1.6GHz Samsung Exynos 4 quad-core processor. For those of you playing at home, you’ll realise this is the very same chip inside the Samsung Galaxy Note [...]

For the last 18 months or so, Ausdroid has been served to you from – of all places – California, in the United States of America. We’ve used Linode for our server hosting for quite some time now, and while it has served us well, it’s time to come home. Linode has served us well, [...]

One of the coolest (and hence, most hyped) uses of NFC would have to be the use of it for contactless payments.Just like your MasterCard or Visa card with PayPass or payWave. The most widely known example of using your phone as your wallet is probably Google’s Wallet app. After installing it on your Android ...

I’ve been tweeting at the @AsusAU twitter feed and posting on their Facebook wall for a while now asking about accessories for the Nexus 7 and received no response, however last night @AsusAU finally must have gotten sick of me or they actually got some information but they finally replied with some information, which will [...]

Google Australia have gone to some pretty cool lengths to test out Google’s voice recognition system for Voice Search. They went to desert just outside of Leigh Creek in South Australia to test Voice Search with the help of two Parabolic Mirrors to make things a little bit more interesting. The second test takes place [...]

According to a report by the Internation Data Corporation (IDC) Android growth is still going strong with our favourite OS making up a 30% share of the Australian Mobile OS Market in the first quarter of this year. Apple’s iOS took the lead at 40%, though the growth of Android is expected to overtake iOS [...]

Google recently pushed out an updated version of Google Maps and with this update came the ability to download map data within 16km2 (10 miles2) whilst you have a sufficient data connection, so when you go out into the close-range wilderness you can access Google Maps without the need for 3G or Wi-Fi. Clever. The [...]

Back in January we were told the LG Optimus Black was going to launch in May, evidently that did not happen. A few rumours and leaks later, we can finally say the Optimus Black has launched over at Vodafone. The device is available on Voda’s lowest cap ($0 on $29) which includes $180 of credit, [...]

Aaaaaanndddddd we’re done! Thanks for tuning into the live stream, if you did. The downloadable version of the Podcast shall be available on Friday (dependent on Lucas’ house moving progress) Before you say anything: we’ve missed you too over the last two weeks, but don’t worry we’re back. We’ve got a whole lot to talk [...]

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 [...]