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The recent Pokémon Go Fest in Chicago saw the chance for Pokémon trainers to unleash the first Legendary Pokémon. Around the world, trainers battled to catch as many Pokémon as possible and now the first Legendary Pokémon are here. Niantic Labs has announced that Lugia and Articuno are the first …

The first of Lenovo’s 2017 Android tablets announced at Mobile World Congress has appeared for sale overnight at The Good Guys. Lenovo Australia’s Android Tablet page is yet to be updated. Priced at $329 the Lenovo Tab 4 10.1″ 16GB Tablet is $20 less than we were expecting based on information …

After we highlighted a good deal for the Soundwave Transformers tablet yesterday, a timely leak shows that Hasbro and Xiaomi are partnering up again for another transforming tech toy, but this time a more useful one. Courtesy of a leaker on Chinese social media site Weibo, the toy will this …

If you thought the TAG Heuer Connected was the most expensive Android Wear watch, Louis Vuitton would like to say ‘Hold my beer’, or my Chateau Margaux as the case may be. The Louis Vuitton Tambour Horizon pricing starts in Australia at $3,450. The Tambour Horizon may be Android Wear, …

Samsung Australia has announced a new sporting sponsorship deal today, becoming the naming sponsor of the Australian women’s netball team the Diamonds. Samsung has been involved with Netball Australia since their partnership last year with the Rethink Role Models campaign. As well as becoming the Diamonds naming sponsor, they will …

I’m a sucker for a bit of merchandising and crossing an Android tablet with the Transformers franchise is a sure-fire winner. Xiaomi released this toy in partnership with Hasbro last April, but they were a bit expensive at the time. Now you can grab one for under $60AUD delivered to …

High end gaming accessories maker Razer is working on a high-end smartphone aimed at gamers, says a new report from Bloomberg. The report says that the Hong Kong based company is working on a ‘mobile device tailored for its consumer base of hardcore gamers’ according to ‘people familiar with the …

Andy Rubins highly anticipated Essential Phone has been delayed, and customers are being advised finally as to the reason why. After missing the 30-day shipping window given by Mr Rubin at the Code conference talk when he launched the phone, customers who reserved the phone are finally finding out why. …

Google’s Local Guides program recently updated their Local Guide program adding in more levels, more ways to collect points and a big question about what attaining the new levels would grant you? According to Android Police some Local Guides are now receiving an email inviting them to sign up to …

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Street View? Have you ever wanted to go into space? My guess is that a statistically high proportion of people reading this would say hell yeah. Well, now thanks to Google Street View, the crew of the ISS and …

Last year Google released an app for iOS to capture and smooth Apple’s ‘Live Photos’, called Motion Stills. At the time and apparently ever since, many Android fans have been asking when it would be coming to Android. The answer to that is now. The new app is available on …

Facebook overnight has announced that it is globally launching ‘Groups for Pages’, which enables the 70 million Pages that exist on Facebook to create fan clubs and groups centred around super-fans of a Page. The new feature, Groups for Pages, basically enables Musicians, Bands, Brands and more to run an …

After kicking off their Q series last week with the LG Q6, a mini version of the G6, LG has quietly released the Q8, which appears to be a mini version of the LG V20. The phone has the same style of secondary display as the V20, sitting above the …

Niantic Labs has announced overnight that as part of their Pokémon Go one-year anniversary celebrations they’ll finally be unleashing the legendary Pokemon we’ve all been waiting for. It’s not happening automatically though, with a worldwide co-operation required to unlock the Legendary Pokemon. Niantic says : According to Niantic, if the …

Optus has today announced plans to expand mobile coverage for users on their network in regional Australia with a $1 billion investment over the next 11 months. Optus intends to put improvements into place by June 2018, with 500 new mobile sites being build across regional and remote parts of …