Before there were smartphones, there were feature phones, and one of the most iconic was the Motorola RAZR. If you’re my age (or a bit younger, I’ll grant) then the Motorola RAZR was the epitome of cool – a flip phone with cameras that looked, sounded and just was cool. …
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Wear OS isn’t the best system for wearables out there, but Google is slowly improving it with incremental updates. The latest update includes a new Play Store design. The previous pull-down menu is gone completely, meaning it no longer covers the search button. The options within have been moved to …
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Look, with the number of stories I write about gin, it’s probably about time I’m sounding like I have a bit of a problem. I’m quite partial to a good gin, and I also don’t mind trying new gins to find out whether they’re good or not. The perfect Christmas …
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Disney+ has had a tumultuous launch overseas with many people reporting connection errors, and it might not be working at all if you’re running an Nvidia Shield TV. According to an Nvidia staff post you may not be able to download the app on rooted devices or those running a …
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This afternoon Huawei has announced three new products coming to Australia – the updated Huawei Watch GT 2, the active noise cancelling Huawei FreeBuds 3, and a new obsidian black variant of the venerable Huawei P30 Pro. Available in four styles and two different sizes, there’s a Huawei Watch GT …
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Although Fitbit has been purchased by Google and the future seems uncertain that has not stopped them from updating their operating system, adding a host of new features. The new update to FitbitOS 4.1 adds in the ability to adjust the watch face directly from the watch itself, rather than …
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Google Maps is a traveler’s best friend in a foreign country. If you need to get somewhere, usually Maps can handle it by itself. But what if you don’t speak the local language? In an upcoming update Google Maps will include a few features from Google Translate. Namely, it will …
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Twitter can be a great source of information or a hot mess. It really depends on the people you follow, their political views and often which politician has pulled the biggest blunder this week. Filtering through that mess can be a nightmare, but Twitter have put together topics to help …
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As our lives become more and more connected, digitally stored and accessible, our storage needs have grown exponentially. This is especially so with the advent of the NBN, making our homes more connected with faster connection speeds, which in turn enables faster access to whatever we’ve got stored at home. …
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Usually when we talk about the NBN at Ausdroid, we’re looking at the fastest plans or the best value plans, but these two slices on the available NBN plans ignore one big group of potential users. Those that want to download everything. For these customers, the fastest downloads don’t matter …
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One of the most iconic phones ever made was/is the Motorola Razr and with the advent of foldable phones this year Motorola have decided to reboot the Razr in a foldable smartphone format. With the official announcement later today you wouldn’t think anything this official would leak out — but …
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Alcatel has announced a couple of new affordable, quality smartphones in the lead up to Christmas 2019, bringing a dual camera to the sub-$200 price point with the Alcatel 1S, and a triple camera and fingerprint sensor to the $300 mark. As is usually the case with Alcatel’s smartphones, these …
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Sonos is one of the biggest names in the streaming sound market, establishing themselves as a quality hardware and great sound option. One of the issues many users face with streaming music on this dedicated hardware is the paid subscription necessity. Sonos are addressing that with the news that you’ll …
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The Internet has been outraged the last few days over the changes YouTube made to their terms and conditions. The wording of the new document has had people believing that YouTube could and would suspend YouTube channels that were not “financially viable”. Of course once the truth caught up with …
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It’s the tail end of the year which means we’re past seeing much by way of new phones, and we shift towards looking at what might come next year. Qualcomm follows an annual release cycle for its premium smartphone chipsets, and the successor to the current-model Sapdragon 855+ is shaiping …
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