We’ve heard from our sources in-the-know that Telstra will be launching the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 4G on February 28th (alongside the Galaxy S II 4G and Galaxy Note) and now we have some pricing to go with it. Our source says that a 16GB model will be available for $0 upfront on Telstra’s $69 [...]

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 [...]

Gizmodo Australia have been sent a photo (well.. 2) of the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G dummy device that we reported are sitting in the back of Telstra Stores ahead of a launch later this month. Gizmodo’s source claims that the release date is pencilled in for February 28th, not just for the Galaxy S [...]

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 [...]

We’ve received the above photo of Telstra’s internal computer system (Siebel) which is now listing the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G and Samsung Galaxy Note — our source says they’ve been there now for almost a week. While not all devices in Siebel actually launch (eg. Galaxy S II Mini, Galaxy S Plus) we’ve already [...]

We were hearing the rumours of the Galaxy S II 4G and Galaxy Note going to Telstra from various sources, but now a solid source has today confirmed that dummy models of the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G, Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 4G have arrived at Telstra retail stores. This means [...]

We’re hearing from a source that Telstra have internally confirmed a late February / early march release of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE — the first 4G LTE tablet in Australia. Telstra have already confirmed that they’ve been working to launch one LTE tablet before the middle of the year, and I’ve been hearing [...]

We’ve recently heard from a source who is in-the-know for Telstra news that Australia’s biggest carrier is planning to launch the Galaxy S II 4G and Galaxy Note — both from Samsung, of course — in the near future as both are appearing in Telstra’s internal systems. Take it with a grain of salt, but [...]

If you weren’t aware, the HTC Velocity 4G from Telstra went on sale today and we’re wondering how many of you guys have purchased one already (early adopters!) or are planning to in the future. It’s available for $0 on Telstra’s $79 Freedom Connect Plan or you can buy it outright for $840 — a [...]

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 [...]

Wondering what speeds you’d be getting from Telstra’s 4G network if you were to buy the Velocity 4G? Wonder no more, the results speak for themselves above. Our man, Matt, took this photo at the launch of the Velocity 4G tonight while checking how fast Telstra’s 4G network really is. The results came back with [...]

Also announced at Telstra’s launch of the HTC Velocity 4G tonight is that they plan on having 3 or 4 phones and 1 tablet on their 4G network by the middle of this year. The Velocity 4G is obviously the first of the 4G devices, and we’re going to think a majority of the devices [...]

One of our great writers, Matty Booth, is currently at the HTC Velocity 4G launch event in Sydney checking out the device before it goes on sale tomorrow to consumers. When Telstra were asked about Ice Cream Sandwich for the Velocity 4G, they said that the update is currently in testing and should roll-out to [...]