If you’ve owned a laptop in the last 20 years or so, you’ll be familiar with the Targus name – the company has made a name for itself with a range of mobile computing accessories over the years with a product portfolio stretching from mice through chargers to port replicators, laptop bags and cases. Targus [...]

This is the 73st episode of the Ausdroid podcast. After taking a week off, this week we spent a while looking at the new products that have been announced (or in some cases, rumoured) by Samsung, HTC and Motorola. Production Note: We’ve had some issues with our audio recording again, and have had to use [...]

For those waiting for the 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update for their Samsung Galaxy S3 or Note II handset, it appears you will unfortunately be waiting quite a bit longer.  According to Sammobile twitter account the 4.2.2 update has been delayed until at least November.  The reason given is due to a new TouchWiz for the [...]

Samsung’s J K Shin has confirmed that there will be a camera launched at the upcoming London event on the 20th of June. Going far enough in his statement to suggest that the camera will be a high end optics, Android powered device that will have interchangeable lenses as well as other features such as [...]

If you’re the owner of a generic Samsung Galaxy S4 bought in Australia (ie. not from Telstra, Optus or Vodafone) you should find yourself receiving an OTA — over the air — update sometime today. The major changes in this update include freeing up some internal storage space — about 90MB — and adding the [...]

Samsung’s obsession with creating a phone and tablet in every possible size and with every conceivable built in accesory has taken a very curious twist with their announcement of the Galaxy S4 Zoom. The device has a built in 16MP camera with 10 x optical Zoom. As is evident from the picture, rather than a [...]

After leaking numerous times over the last couple of weeks, Samsung has tonight finally unveiled their cameraphone, the latest in a seemingly never ending lineup of phones branching off the Samsung Galaxy S4 branding – the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom. The Galaxy S4 Zoom is the result of Samsungs ‘mission to create a single device [...]

Samsung’s Super AMOLED display in the Galaxy S4 has received certification from UL (Underwriters Laboratories — a product compliance tester) for having some of the best colour reproductions on a mobile device. UL said that the display covers 97% of the Adobe RGB colour space which is 30% broader than the sRGB standard. The display [...]

How big is too big? That’s the question that Samsung seems to be set to ask with a report from Korean site ETNews stating that they are looking to introduce an even larger form factor into their Galaxy Note range – the Galaxy Note 12.2. The large screened tablet will use a 12.2″ screen that [...]

Two products which seem to have received a fair bit of attention in the latest round of releases from Samsung have been the Galaxy S4 Active and Galaxy S4 Mini. We approached Samsung Australia regarding local availability and they advised in statements that both of these phones will indeed be coming to Australia. Regarding the [...]

Samsung announced the Galaxy Ace 3 overnight, the latest in their line of lower end Android phones and it appears that while the hardware is not generally exciting, Samsung has definitely not left the Galaxy Ace 3 behind in terms of features. Hardware wise, the Galaxy Ace 3 has received upgrades to screen size as [...]

If you read my piece on why you should get a case from your smartphone, then you’ll have known I purchased an S View Cover for my Samsung Galaxy S4. And now that I have had a few weeks to use it, I thought I might share my thoughts and experiences with the rest of [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 3 range has seen a handful of renders posted overnight via renowned leak source @evleaks on Twitter. You can see one of the renders above, and the leaked images below: Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0, in gold-brown, 2013 pic.twitter.com/S0Ddfxk5mZ — @evleaks (@evleaks) June 7, 2013 Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0, in gold-brown, [...]