Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen a few “bare bones” mobile service providers come up. Offering cost effective plans as “Sim Only” or “BYO Phone” deals, which are great if you purchase your handsets outright, or you have recently had a plan expire, and you’re happy with your handset. But what if you’re [...]

Telstra started selling the Samsung Galaxy Note II on their online store this morning. The ‘tweener’ device which was due to go on-sale on Boxing Day has come as an early Christmas present to those who were wanting to get the phone on the Telstra Network. The Note II is available in Black or Silver [...]

No sooner had we told you about the Galaxy Note II landing at Crazy John’s from next week, than Ausdroid tipster Zak tells us that if you don’t want to wait that long, you don’t have to! We knew that AllPhones would be carrying the Galaxy Note II, but it seems that it’s available right [...]

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 [...]

Vodafone has just announced that the Samsung Galaxy Note II will be available in-store and online from December 5th on their $50 Plan with a $10 monthly handset repayment on a 24 month contract(total min cost $1440), other plans will no doubt be available but at this stage the Note II is not showing up [...]

Virgin Mobile Australia is now taking pre-orders for the hugely anticipated Samsung Galaxy Note II. Running on the Optus 4G Network the 4G enabled Galaxy Note II is available on a variety of plans starting at just $49 per month($29 with a $20 MRO Min total cost over 24 months is $1176) with free delivery, [...]

We received a tip from an Ausdroid reader letting us know that Allphones stores have begun to receive plastic dummy units of the Samsung Galaxy Note II. These units should be on display in stores today, so you can pick one up and get a feel for the size and shape of the device. Notably, [...]

Last night at Moore Park, Samsung held a launch event featuring the Galaxy Note II. We were also treated to first looks of other products including a range of Windows 8 convertible laptops and tablets and the new Android based Samsung Galaxy camera. Samsung Galaxy Camera After an hour of pre-event drinks and chatter with [...]

Samsung has announced – by way of a post on their SamsungTomorrow Flickr account, of all places – that they’ve sold 3 million Galaxy Note II’s since launch in just 37 days. Galaxy Note II, the follow-up version of Galaxy Note which opened a new category of smart mobile devices by Samsung as a market [...]

Today, Ausdroid received an invite to an event to launch the Samsung Galaxy Note II in Australia. Of course, we’ve already reviewed the Galaxy Note II but we had our review unit ahead of the product’s launch in the Australian market. Ausdroid is just one of an exclusive number of tech media outlets invited to [...]

Is it just a bigger version of the Galaxy SIII? So many people are confused right now with a seemingly never ending choice of phones on the market. I understand. In fact, we at Ausdroid go through the same difficulty ourselves in trying to choose our next smartphone. What we’re looking at here is the [...]

Note: This review was written by Juliet Fieldew – wife of the Jedi – and complements our Galaxy Note II review. Creatives everywhere have been enthused by the fabulous functions of the Galaxy Note II’s S Pen and S Note software. Whether you’re into fashion sketches or productivity presentations, there’s a lot that can be [...]

Last we heard about the availability of the LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Note II on Australian carriers was a possible launch on Optus in December. We’re now hearing rumours that all three of the major carriers will launch the Galaxy Note II in November albeit as a staggered release with Optus first out [...]