It’s the end of an era, the Crazy John’s brand will cease trading at the end of today with some stores closing for good whilst others will be re-branded as Vodafone stores before re-opening. The re-branding and closure of Crazy John’s stores was announced last month by parent company Vodafone who advised it was a [...]

In the middle of last year we received information that Crazy Johns would be closing some of their retail stores and this did indeed come to pass with a number of stores closing their doors. This morning we’ve been tipped that Crazy Johns wanted to take this further and close all their store, we’ve just [...]

The Samsung Galaxy Note II is shaping up to be one of this year’s big sellers, and today we have news that this giant-amongst-men of a handset is headed to Crazy Johns. This brings the Note II availability to (so far): Telstra … albeit, it’s coming ‘next year’ Optus Virgin Mobile Vodafone AllPhones Crazy Johns [...]

Overnight at an event in Germany, Samsung has unveiled their Galaxy S III Mini smartphone. The phone which is not only mini in name but also in specs is a pretty basic model with a 4″ Super AMOLED screen at a pretty basic 480×800 resolution and has a 1GHz Dual Core processor, camera wise it [...]

Sony today officially announced that the Xperia P and the Xperia U would be launching on Australia; more specifically on Telstra and Crazy John’s respectively. While we had already confirmed the release of the Xperia P on Telstra (a week ago), the release of the Xperia U on Crazy John’s is news to us. The [...]

Samsung’s latest flagship is good, but is it good enough to fend off the competition? You may have watched the launch of the Galaxy S III live from London, almost six weeks ago. At some point you may have been horrified with the nature theme (pebbles, water, etc) and the “made for humans” catch cry. [...]

I have called stores around Canberra this morning and was advised by staff at Optus, Vodafone and Crazy Johns stores that they have stock of the 16GB Pebble Blue coloured Galaxy S III. I also called a number of Telstra stores who advised they did not have stock as yet but they receive their deliveries [...]

Owners of the HTC ChaCha from Vodafone or Crazy John’s will be receiving an over-the-update in the next couple of days. It’s not a major update, instead it’s just a maintenance update to fix bugs throughout the OS to enhance the user experience. Your data won’t be touched, so don’t worry about backing anything up [...]

Want to know which carrier is offering great value on the brand new Samsung Galaxy S III? Take a look at our always awesome table comparing the major telcos and their similarly priced plans. Remember, you have to take into account your own personal preference, each networks capabilities in your area and all that wonderful [...]

Looking to root your brand new HTC One X that you just purchased from Optus, Vodafone, Crazy John’s, Virgin or outright from somewhere? Well you’re in luck. Paul at MoDaCo has released a method to root your brand new device, and it’s fairly simple and straightforward. We’re going to tell you right now we take [...]

Sony Mobile today confirmed where, when and how the Xperia S will be available in Australia. Optus will have the Xperia S available in Black from ‘early April’, we believe it will be $0 on the $49 cap. Vodafone will have the Xperia S available in White from 11 April, also believed to be $0 [...]

Back in February we brought you the news that Sony’s first smartphone – so dubbed because they’ve dropped the SonyEricsson moniker – would be released in our Autumn. We now have news that it’ll be in around two weeks – that is, from 11 April, the Sony Xperia S will be available from Vodafone and [...]

HTC has added the Desire HD — along with new models of the Desire and Wildfire — to its list of devices able to have their bootloaders unlocked using HTC’s offical HTCdev ‘Unlock Bootloader’ tool. If you’re unsure of what the bootloader is, you can safely ignore this article. If you do know what it [...]