One of the things that Android and Google both cop flack over is the speed at which updates to the Android OS filter out to both new phones and as updates to older devices. One of the reasons specified previously by OEMs has been the fact that they don’t receive access to the source code [...]

Motorola Australia has assured users of the Wi-Fi and 3G XOOM that the Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich update will be rolled out at some point in Q2. As we’ve already entered Q2 it will likely be in the late May to early June time frame. Motorola said that although XOOMs in other parts of [...]

Well this just seems to have come straight out of no where: Google might be looking into the possibility of selling Motorola’s handset division to Chinese company Huawei. The news is coming from a Wall Street Journal article which surely has some kind of strong source to back the claim up. If this goes ahead, [...]

The Internation Data Corporation (IDC) have released their report on Tablets in Australia, and it’s not a pretty sight for Android. IDC states that 15% of all tablets shipped in the last quarter of 2011 were running on Android. That’s 15% of 587,000: 88,050. Acer shipped the largest quantity of Android tablets in Q4 of [...]

A friendly tipster has sent us in this screenshot of Telstra’s internal documentation. Within the documentation is a list of phones that have been put into Siebel (Telstra’s sales system) but cannot be sold yet, which means they’re confirmed to be launching at some point in the future — the Samsung Galaxy Note is a [...]

Motorola have announced that the first carrier for the Xoom 2 in Australia is Telstra. On paper, the Xoom 2 is well up there on current market specs and frankly after the disappointing Xoom I hope that Motorola got it right this time. The Xoom 2 features: 10.1″ screen 1.2ghz Dual Core processor 1GB Ram [...]

It was only at CES last year that Motorola unveiled the original Motorola Atrix, and come Mobile World Congress they’ll be unveiling the third iteration of the device — at least according to new leaks. The image above is the latest photo of the Atrix 3, and as it says, there will be an NVIDIA [...]

Today Motorola updated its “Motorola Android Software Upgrade News” page with new information about which phones and Tablets will get Ice Cream Sandwich. I’ve saved you the effort of going through the page by separating out the Australian devices. So from the below table we can see that the RAZR (Optus), Atrix (Telstra) and the [...]

Are you the owner of a Motorola XOOM, or know someone who is? Then you best let them know not to wait up for the Ice Cream Sandwich update for their device. Motorola Australia stated on their Facebook page that while they’d love to get ICS quickly, the carriers here haven’t started the testing phase [...]

Motorola Mobility have released a teaser video declaring they will be showing off wireless charging at CES 2012. The video — viewable below — is all CGI which shows a generic Motorola wall-socket USB charger crying, as it’s obviously not going to be used any more. Conductive charging isn’t anything new at all, but it’s [...]

It’s that time of year again, folks, where we announce the top 5 Android devices that we thought really stood out and performed well. The phones are judged by Team Ausdroid with the following criteria: launched in Australia this year; specs given the time of launch; positive feedback we’ve been given by readers about the [...]

Today Irwin and I attended the launch of Telstra’s new Android-esque store in their Melbourne CBD store dubbed “Androidland”. Android has well and truly taken over a majority (154 square metres) of the second level of the 246 Bourke St store with hands-on demos of a lot of Android devices and their cool features. The [...]

If you’re a regular shopper over at Kogan and you’re also a lover of Android (if you’re not, why are you here?) you’ll be happy to know they’ve added the Motorola RAZR and Samsung Galaxy Note to their lineup of cheap Android devices. The RAZR is selling for $619 which is the cheapest I could [...]