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Foxtel today gathered press in their new Foxtel On Oxford space on Sydney’s iconic Oxford St. It’s a recently-renovated cinema that retains some of its original old-school charm, which seems an appropriate place for the launch of a newly-renovated user interface for their IQ boxes, with some new content partnerships …

Many of us have forgotten about Huawei’s upcoming smartphone launch given their issues in other areas. It appears that Huawei though are still working towards a favourable outcome in the US and a big release for their Mate 30. Huawei though may have gone to sleep on the design though …

In just over two weeks Samsung will reveal their new Galaxy Note devices and they are getting extremely leaky the closer we are getting to the launch date. Yesterday we saw the specs leak and today we have seen more specs along with photos of the two Note 10 phones …

In a case of extremely unfortunate timing, Huawei’s slow recovery from the bad news of being banned from buying from US companies seems to have suffered a bit of a blow today. The Washington Post has reported that Huawei has – indirectly, mind you – been involved in the building …

It’s been a long time between drinks for Huawei’s Wear OS smartwatch line. The original Huawei Watch was a late 2015 arrival, and the Huawei Watch 2 came a couple of years later in 2017. Since then, though, we’ve not seen too much from Huawei in terms of smartwatches; granted, …

We love the latest gadgets and electronics, but we didn’t expect to be writing up a travelling hotel room when we came to work this morning. Oppo – makers of the Reno smartphone, which we rather like – has announced that it’s created a luxury hotel suite out of a …

With Android 10/ Q just around the corner Google is gearing up the after market accessory OEMs to get ready for some of the new hardware features we will see enabled, at least for some hardware. Bluetooth Fast Pair is one such change that’s coming and Google wants headphone manufacturers …

Samsung were very late to the party with their Night mode. After originally telling Ausdroid that their camera does not need a night mode of any sort due to its low light capabilities they eventually realised that their camera just did not cut it against its competition when it came …

In yet another sign of what we can expect in the Pixel 4 Google employees are reportedly wandering around the streets purchasing face data. These Googlers are taking people’s face data in exchange for a $5 gift card to Amazon or Starbucks. ZDNet are reporting that an engineer friend of …

We’ve seen a few snippets of information including the launch date and some of the expected specs. ASUS’ ROG Phone 2 is now here, we know everything and it’s what I’ve wanted from a gaming phone for a while. Let’s start with important gaming information: the expected 120Hz display has …

Google’s Pixel range has built a bit of a name for itself as a quality Android handset with – more recently, at least – premium smartphone features an a pure Google package. The Pixel 2 XL is getting on to two years old now, and while that’s a decent age …

Smart speakers and displays are extremely handy but unfortunately the Assistant on them often speaks far too loudly which can be an issue, especially when turning the lights off at night. Now it seems that Google finally has a solution nearly ready to go. The folks at 9to5Google have noticed …

Optus customers already have access to a number of things as part of their service, including free streaming from services like Google Play Music, iHeartRadio and Spotify. What if you want a free subscription to a music service, though? Well, from today, Optus customers can now enjoy over 50 million …

The Google Pixel 4 is set to be announced in early October but as usual we are seeing many details leak well before the official announcement. When some CAD-based renders appeared yesterday we got a good look at the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL showing a large top bezel …