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 [...]

We’ve received some more news regarding the rumoured Sony Xperia S launch on Optus in mid-April: pricing. Our source says that the phone will be available for $0 on Optus’ $49 cap. The cap includes 1.5GB data, $550 of included credit and unlimited social networking on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare (and more), which is (almost) enough [...]

We’ve received a tip-off from an anonymous source who has left us valuable information about the Sony Xperia S and Samsung Galaxy XCover. Both of the devices are expected to launch on Optus in the middle of next month — stores will be able to order them in two weeks. The Xperia S is Sony’s [...]

“When will ICS be available for my device?” – It’s a question most of us have been asking each other — and our carriers — ever since Ice Cream Sandwich was announced by Google on the 19th of October last year. The wait for a software update seems to take excruciatingly long since the update [...]

That’s right, you can pre order your quad core goodness right now! A press release from Optus earlier today (which gave the wrong URL) has stated that if you pre order early enough, you can expect delivery on the 2nd of April. If you’re holding out for some Quad Core action on your phone, is [...]

Looks like it didn`t take much, Optus now also have the HTC One X up on their page, this time for pre-order. They are promising delivery on the 2nd of April to Metro customers and 4th of April for Regional areas. Optus have matched the pricing scheme for the Virgin launch(No surprises there) offering the [...]

Well how about this for a Sunday morning rumour from Smarthouse. They’re reporting that Telstra is already testing the Samsung Galaxy S III with a release date set for a few days after the global launch date in April. Keep in mind, Smarthouse have reported some pretty horrendous stories that have never played out. Smarthouse [...]

Our tipster has sent us through confirmation of the Galaxy Note on Optus in the form of the Allphone catalogue. The device is indeed launching in mid-March on Optus’ $79 cap. Virgin will also be picking up the device around about the same time, no doubt on a pricing scheme to undercut Optus. For that [...]

Confirmed: We have confirmation that Optus and Virgin Mobile will be launching the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Release date is mid-March. We’ve received a tip off that Optus and Virgin Mobile are planning to release the Samsung Galaxy Note in the middle of this month. The tipster said that pricing is set at $0 on a [...]

Optus have just confirmed with us via email that they are about to start network testing the Android 4.0.3 update for the Samsung Galaxy S IIl. This means that all the major carriers are about to be in the testing stage and a late April release date seems to be on the table. Vodafone might [...]

Now that HTC have got all their announcements out of the way, it’s time for all the rumours, build-ups and confirmations to start happening in regards to which carrier will be getting which devices. First off it’s the HTC One X going to Optus. They’ve already teased the device on their Facebook page and the [...]

HTC announced via their global Facebook page that they would be updating the HTC Rhyme to Ice Cream Sandwich. While they were specifically talking about the North American version, we can surely think that they’ll push it out to the global version that Optus sells. While we’ve reached out to Optus for any official word [...]