Earlier this morning, Google’s Hugo Barra announced a variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4 running stock Android and covered by the Nexus experience. It’s a pretty big deal, and it’s even more awesome to see Samsung doing it with their flagship device. In the same breath before unveiling the device, he noted the HTC One [...]

While Google didn’t unveil anything new for the Nexus 4, they did partner up with Samsung to announce the Galaxy S4 running stock Android 4.2 with a pure Nexus experience. As with every other Nexus device, updates will come directly from Google in a timely fashion in comparison to the staggered release from Samsung with [...]

It’s not surprising that we’re hearing a lot of Google rumours this week, with Google I/O around the corner again. This time, we have Mingchi Kuo, an analyst with KGI Securities with a bit of gossip. Kuo, who has had accurate information regarding Apple product launches in the past, has given 9 to 5 Google [...]

If you’re like me, you’re probably counting down the days to Google I/O 2013. The Ausdroid staff are already planning their late-night live stream munchies and pre-writing our rants and raves to bring you our unique flavour of coverage — because let’s face it, it’s pretty much Android Christmas, only equalled in magnitude by ACTUAL [...]

As Australia recovers from the shock of two flagship launches in the space of a week, and with Google I/O looming next week, noteworthy news was a little light on the ground this week. Instead, we decided to discuss the rumours around Google I/O and the Motorola “X-FON”. Featuring: Jason Murray, Geoff Fieldew and Dan [...]

The Nexus 4 has proven that LG can produce a quality phone, delivering a high spec well made product and it seems that despite inital issues with delays on supply of the Nexus 4 Google is happy enough with LG to begin talks with LG about producing the next Nexus phone. A story appearing in [...]

Samsung are a big player in the Android market, and have received a lot of attention recently owing to the release of the Galaxy S 4. Yesterday, a rumour about one of their lesser-recognised Android hardware contributions started making the rounds. While it’s well-known by now that Samsung will release new tablet devices later this [...]

Vic Gundotra – Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google – is frequently active on Google+ discussing a wide range of topics, from internet memes to his family. A couple of days ago, he raised an interesting question about a trip to the mountains and packing his DSLR camera. The question goes something like this: [...]

Despite the fact that Google has not been able to get their act together with regards to retailing hardware in a virtual environment through the Play Store, it looks like Google is set to follow both Apple and Microsoft in trying to sell their products through their own Google branded retail outlets. According to 9to5Google, [...]

The biggest news in the past couple of days has been the release of Android 4.2.2, which brings Quick Settings toggles, app download countdown timers, some new sounds and a number of bug fixes. The update has been rolling out to various Nexus devices, and Google have now posted the 4.2.2 factory images. If you [...]

Looks like some users over on Reddit are reporting that they are receiving an update to Android 4.2.2 (Build JDQ39) on their GSM Galaxy Nexus and also their Nexus 7. The only information supplied on the update is from one of the users -WeeManFoo who advises that the Bluetooth streaming from his Car Stereo seemed [...]

The Nexus program ventures into 10″ Territory Traditionally the 10″ Android tablet market has been a pretty disappointing affair. The big name tablets like the Galaxy Tab and the Asus Transformer series have both sold in numbers which have obviously been enough to warrant sequels and further investment by their respective companies. But so far [...]

No one can deny that the introduction of the ASUS Nexus 7 tablet lit a fire in the “budget device” sector, and in the “sub 10″ tablet” range. But it seems that we may see more competition coming in from Samsung this year. There are rumours that we may see a new 7-inch Android tablet [...]