Some alleged photos of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S11 have appeared online, but the quality is so questionable that really, this could be any phone you want it to be. Given the source of these images – Twitter leaker @IceUniverse – 9to5Google believes it’s at least plausible that these photos are …
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Ausdroid’s 2019 Phone Buying Guide
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Moto RAZR: Australian exclusive hands-on – you’re going to want one too
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Here’s all the details you need to know about Disney+
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Google is preparing Play Movies for Dolby Vision 4K HDR
As the entertainment world marches steady forward towards move 4K HDR content on line delivery platforms like Google Play Movies need to keep up with all of the formats and codecs that make the system work. Within the 4K HDR world, Dolby Vision is widely regarded as one of the …
Read More »Gmail now supports adding multiple emails as attachments, hallelujah
Sometimes a feature has been missing for so long you just get used to not having it, That’s how we have felt about not being able to send multiple email attachments via Gmail in one go. That all changes, today. Google has announced that they are rolling out an update …
Read More »Qualcomm dropped their 2020 bag of chips, we’re in for an exciting year
Last week Qualcomm outlined their early 2020 mobile SOC strategy, at least for the Flagship and upper-tier devices. What’s the message? 5G is king. Qualcomm announced their Snapdragon 865, 765 and 765G chips to much fanfare. Just like this years range, the 8xx series processor is the top dog including …
Read More »Google dropping some new features onto the Pixel phones this month
The Pixel 4 and Android 10 have been out for quite a while now and after several bug-fixing releases Google have announced today that it is time for a feature drop. New features will be arriving “this month” to Pixel phones in Google’s first feature drop for the Android 10 …
Read More »The new Google Assistant will arrive in Australia “soon”
When Google released the Pixel 4 they included with it a new Google Assistant but unfortunately that Assistant was not included in all regions, including ours. At the time Google told Ausdroid that it would be arrive towards the end of the year. In today’s blogpost Google has announced that …
Read More »Airvisual free app: Accurately monitor bushfire smoke air quality
News stories about bad air quality, Air Quality Index (AQI) stats and images of people wearing breathing masks used to be a thing you’d see overseas in places like SBS World News. Sadly, now, these stories are usually about what’s happening in Australia and in particular up and down the …
Read More »Score a free $300 Wish Gift Card when you buy any Samsung Galaxy S10 from Woolworths Mobile
If you’re in the mood for a new Samsung Galaxy S10 handset this Christmas, now’s the time to buy with Woolworths Mobile, as you can score (effectively) $300 off the cost over the life of your plan term. Woolworths Mobile is giving you a $300 Wish eGift card with every …
Read More »NAS out of space? How to migrate to a larger NAS enclosure
While most consumers are content with keeping their data strewn across a few hard drives, thumb drives and various cloud services some of us prefer something a little more robust and more importantly, redundant. That’s where a RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks) set …
Read More »Ausdroid Review: Sphero Mini Soccer and Sphero Mini Activity kit, through the eyes of a 10yo
Coding and working with computers are our future (until the AI overlords finally take over) so it is often thought to be a good idea to familiarise your kids with some form of computers. Sphero have been making coding products for a while now and their “robots” are a fun …
Read More »Google ending support for another product, this time its the Explorer Edition of Glass
I guess it was only a matter of time until Google would be ending support for another product and this time I guess its really no surprise. Google has decided it’s time for ending support for the Explorer Edition of Glass. Google has stated that it will be rolling out …
Read More »Big W offering discount Google Play Gift Card….. kinda
Big W has joined the line of retailers offering Gift Cards on a rotating discount. This week we find Google Play cards amongst the list, this isn’t a simple upfront discount, however. As you can see the deal is another of the Woolworths rewards bonus points offers, something that is …
Read More »Google Assistant now adds support for third party note apps
It’s been a long time coming, but the Google Assistant has now added support for third party note apps such as Google Keep and three other services such as Any.Do, AnyList and Bring! Currently, the Google Assistant currently the generic ability to take notes and lists by voice, which is …
Read More »OnePlus working on another mid-range device, the OnePlus 8 Lite
OnePlus have done some amazing things in the past few years. Although they had a set back early on in their lifetime they have moved forward in leaps and bounds once they went back to listening to their fans. One of their early devices was the OnePlus X, a mid-range …
Read More »Huawei Mate 30 Pro — A kind-of Australian review
This is a review I’ve been putting off writing for some time. Many others have already published their Huawei Mate 30 Pro reviews and moved on … and to an extent, I did the latter without the former. I came to the point where – without Google Mobile Services to …
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