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After writing about Optus’ new Home Broadband plans last night, I have kept my word and been into Optus today (Hi, Optus Hornsby staff!) and signed up for a new Optus Home Broadband 500GB plan. After an initial bit of confusion (I tried to open a Business account but was …

Last year OPPO demonstrated how far they have come taking out the Canstar Blue award for “Most Satisfied Customers – Smartphones”. This year, building upon that success they have won it again with near top marks in all categories. Canstar are a financial comparison site, with their yearly awards given …

The first punched-hole display smartphones have been announced and it looks to be the trend for 2019 with Samsung looking to continue to notch solution into their Galaxy S10 series of phones. We have seen rumours and CAD leaks demonstrating the oval punch out in the display for the Galaxy …

It’s been some time since the Android Mini Christmas ornaments were on-sale through Dead Zebra, but they’re returning this year with sales set to start at 3am AEST tomorrow morning (13th December). The Android Mini Christmas ornaments have so far been released in Red, Blue and Green, and this year …

With the latest Transformers movie, Bumblebee arriving in cinemas this week, the obvious toy merchandise has arrived in-store. The neatest one to catch our eye is the ‘Transformers: Bumblebee — Bee Vision Bumblebee AR Experience’. The kit appears to be a similar experience to the Iron Man AR experience which …

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally happening. HMD Global has announced the availability of the Nokia 8 Android Pie beta. Announced by head of product for HMD Global, Juho Sarvikas, on Twitter. The delayed update to Android 9 for the Nokia 8 was acknowledged by Mr Sarvikas …

Instagram has announced a new feature for users, allowing short voice messages to be sent to your contacts in Direct Messages. The update was announced by Instagram on their social media channels, including competing platform Twitter: Starting today, you can send voice messages in Direct. Talk the way you want …

Partnering with a high-end sports car company seems to be the new thing for manufacturers, Huawei have partnered with Porsche for some time, while OPPO went with Lamborghini for their Find X launch, now OnePlus has chosen luxury sports car maker McLaren for their partnership, producing the OnePlus 6T McLaren …

It seems brand awareness building is afoot, with smartphone camera maker OPPO announcing a new partnership today with the Melbourne Stars cricket team. The partnership sees OPPO coming on-board as the club’s Co-Major and Official smartphone brand for both the men and women’s teams. OPPO says they see an exciting …

Some of you following my personal saga will remember I’m in a NBN black hole; a brand-new apartment building, built by a developer that forgot to register the development with NBNCo. This means there’ll be no NBN here for ages, and with crummy ADSL infrastructure in the area, it means …

After a major update which rolled out earlier this year, Google Fit is getting new features to help you get through the notoriously unhealthy Christmas season. The update consists of two major features, faster access to your fitness data through home screen widgets, and a breathing coach (Serenity NOW!!!) for …

Only two months after disclosing a potential data leak which forced them to announce the impending closure of their social network, Google has announced a second potential data leak which has forced their hand into bringing the closure date forward. The original data leak potentially gave access to user data …

Earlier today we reported on Samsung officially announcing their first Infinity-O display phone- the A8s. Just hours before in Hong Kong Huawei’s sub-company Honor unofficially announcing a phone with a similar display, making it the “world’s first in-screen camera smartphone”. In what is, for us here in Australia, a teaser …

There are a vast number of messaging apps available to the user but our favourite here at Ausdroid is Telegram. Today the folks have updated Telegram to v5.0 bringing a heap of new changes to the platform. The new update to Telegram brings a new addition to the Translations Platform …

We have seen quite a few leaks of Samsung’s notch solutions in previous weeks and the first phone said to be sporting them was the Galaxy A8. Overnight in China Samsung introduced the world to the Galaxy A8s and the Infinity-O display. The Samsung Galaxy A8s is not meant to …