Launch articles
April 22, 2013
Tomorrow, April 23, sees the launch of the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S4 in Australia with an exclusive media event being held at the Sydney Opera House. Ausdroid will of course be attending and we will — at least, we are hoping to — be live-tweeting the event so you can find out what we [...]
April 8, 2013
Samsung Australia have confirmed what we already knew, the Galaxy S 4 will launch in Australia equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Series 600 CPU clocked at 1.9GHz and it will support 4G LTE on all networks. The Snapdragon 600 CPU has proven to have amazing processing power, as we’ve seen with the HTC One, so the [...]
April 5, 2013
Samsung’s next big thing, the Galaxy S 4, will be launched in Australia on April 23, so says Samsung in its exclusive invite to attend the launch event, received this morning. While we’ve brought you some news about the Galaxy S4 already, come the launch event we expect we’ll be able to bring you an [...]
March 5, 2013
We’ve told you about ALDImobile before but we thought that given the launch is tomorrow, we’d sum up everything we know about ALDI’s offering so you can make an informed choice about whether you might switch to ALDI’s new mobile plan(s). Network First and foremost, ALDImobile will be using Telstra’s 3G network, to deliver 3G [...]
February 21, 2013
HTC is launching the HTC One tonight in Sydney, and we’re sending Jason Murray, Graham Bae and Matt Booth along for the ride! Stay updated below with live updates and photos from the event. You can also follow @AusdroidLive for updates! Tweets by @AusdroidLive We’ll have our usual wrap-up after the event finishes, but this [...]
February 20, 2013
This afternoon, Ausdroid attended a launch event of sorts (see below) for Sony’s 2013 flagship, the Xperia Z. The lunch event, held in the Jørn Utzon room at the Sydney Opera House, was wonderful — the venue was perfect for the day, with nice harbour views complemented by a nice glass of white wine, a [...]
February 20, 2013
Last night we live-blogged the official announcement by HTC of its 2013 flagship Android smartphone – the (somewhat unimaginatively named) HTC One. Up until now, the One was going by its codename the M7, and you can read the evolution of the M7 / HTC One here. Here, we’ll give you a summary of what [...]
February 11, 2013
Sony has today confirmed that it will launch the much-anticipated Xperia Z next week on February 20 to an eager Australian audience. We’ve had a bit of coverage of the Xperia Z since it was announced at Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2013, and it’s fair to say that more than a [...]
January 9, 2013
Sony’s flagship device of 2013 will be coming to our nation’s largest carrier, Telstra. On their Twitter, Telstra announced that the Xperia Z would be coming soon with registrations of interest in the device now open. By registering you’ll receive more details about the device once Telstra release pricing and availability. Update: The Xperia Z [...]
October 31, 2012
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 [...]
September 28, 2012
It turns out that the Samsung Galaxy S III 4G from Telstra might be arriving a little earlier than we thought. Telstra have launched the online store page for the Galaxy S III 4G, however, delivery is expected within the next 5-9 days — by then it will be available in stores around that October [...]
September 27, 2012
We have received some information that suggests Telstra will be launching the Samsung Galaxy S III 4G on October 9th. That’s a good week and a half away, and a Tuesday, which is when Telstra usually launches new devices. The date is yet to be confirmed publicly by Telstra, and they are also yet to [...]
September 26, 2012
HTC and Optus have today announced that the HTC Desire X will launch exclusively on Optus. The Desire X — as its name gives away — is a mixture between the high-end One series and the familiar Desire series of devices. The stylish looking device doesn’t hold back on specs, with some quality hardware alongside [...]




























