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It seems we’re getting Halloween whether we like it or not, and while I won’t be handing out lollies to kids I’ll certainly take advantage of the cheap books and movies on offer in Google Play. Books For book lovers the range of books is decent, with classics like Grimms …

Love it, hate it or simply indifferent to it, the notch is a way of life in 2018. Nearly every manufacturer has used it in their flagship phones, except for Samsung. Many have lauded Samsung’s decision to skip the notch this year but if things go according to plan they …

OnePlus had originally planned to announce their next flagship to the world on October 30 in New York and sent invites out nearly two weeks ago. In the past couple of days Apple have also decided to launch their new iPads on October 30 in New York (one hour later …

If the teardown of a phone by iFixit doesn’t do it for your phone destruction interests, then YouTube channel Jerry Rig Everything should be next on your list. The channel has gotten access to the Pixel 3 XL and performed some scratch tests, addressing some of the concerns on the …

After controversially moving shopping lists in Google Assistant from the cross platform, universally useful Keep platform to the not-so-useful, US-focused Shopping Express service early last year it appears Google has had a change of heart with a Googler talking about moving lists back to Keep. During a reddit threadt, the …

After beginning to roll out the Android Pie update to the Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact ahead of schedule last week, Sony has confirmed they’re ahead of schedule XZ-series handsets, while confirming a date for the XA-series handsets. Sony’s original announcement for the rollout of Pie saw Xperia XZ series …

Until now, the only way to watch every match of the Hyundai A-League was to subscribe to Foxtel. For people like us, who don’t really watch Foxtel except for the football, this can be kind of expensive. Telstra’s new My Football Live app changes all of this. Under the new deal, …

As part of our photographic tour of the United Kingdom following the Huawei Mate 20 Pro launch earlier this week, we’ve been testing out the new smartphone in different environments. We’ve already taken it for a bash up the Thames, and yesterday, we took it out to one of the …

One of the best things about owning a Pixel device is the quick updates you get from Google: not only is your phone updated quickly but you have access to the factory image for the device going forwards. For many tinkerers of the operating system, or those who want to …

If you don’t use a Password manager you need to start, if you want to know why check out our introduction to good online habits. With that out of the way, today LastPass, makers of one of the most popular and feature-rich password managers, announced their first Android Pie build …

Google Maps is one of the mainstays of Google’s stable of apps and services and certainly one of the best performing and most updated. Today they are rolling out an enhancement to their location/trip/’journey sharing’ feature that makes sharing each trip quick and easy right from the navigation interface. After …

The NVIDIA Shield is for us the unquestioned monarch of the Android TV world, it’s powerful, regularly updated and the only thing it’s missing is Coaxial input for broadcast TV (fingers crossed for the Gen 3). Today NVIDIA continued that trend of updating by announcing deeper integration with Google Assistant …

When Samsung’s Galaxy Book came to Australia last year, we liked it but found it wasn’t without its faults. Samsung has now announced the next iteration of the line, funnily enough called Galaxy Book 2, and it seems to have addressed many of the criticisms leveled at the original. The …

After Huawei’s Mate 20 Pro launch this week, we had the opportunity to take Huawei’s new phone out and about around London, including a river cruise with a difference. Usually, if you cruise the Thames, you’ll do so in a slow, leisurely fashion, which I’m sure must be fun. We …

There’s a lot of really cool hardware on the market to assist content creators, Vloggers and YouTubers to capture their moments not only in terms of capturing great video, but audio as well. Sennheiser have introduced the Memory Mic which aims to bring great quality audio to your phone based …