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Lenovo is perhaps better known in Australia for its laptops and its ownership of the Motorola smartphone business, but that doesn’t mean it’s not in other spaces. Overnight, we received word from India that Lenovo has launched its new Lenovo Carme smartwatch which will sell for just shy of $75 …

Nothing warms the depths of my cold dead heart like more Google Pixel 4 leaks, and this morning – like every morning for the past month, it feels like – we’ve woken up to another series of leaked Pixel 4 photos. In fact, someone has sent a huge gallery of …

We’ve already talked about the new re-design for the Google Camera app for the new Pixel 4, but what if you’ve got a Pixel 3 or Pixel 2 and want to try it today? Well, you can. As covered this morning, the primary change is a more minimal interface that …

Quite often, the first time you’ll know that Ausdroid has been reviewing a phone is when we publish the review on our website. Sometimes, if it’s an important phone – or we’ve been allowed to do it – we might publish a hands-on before a review. Othertimes we might publish …

OPPO has announced that it will be one of the latest manufacturers to support Google’s new CameraX feature, during a keynote at Google Developer Days China 2019. Google’s CameraX feature is a new Android Jetpack support library for camera app development, which enables developers to leverage the camera experiences and …

Google’s subscription storage plans, now know as Google One, offer users a few bonus features to go along with paid cloud storage. The latest benefit to be added to the service is automatic phone backup. But Android already backs up my device you say? Yes, it does, but with the …

I certainly have some feelings about all the Google Pixel 4 leaks – and it seems the folks at 9to5Google are of the same opinion – but this one is actually a bit more interesting; it’s not just another leaked hands-on or the like, no, it’s the new camera software, …

What does an all-digital telco look like in 2019? Well, Circles.Life gives us a good look, launching a new phone service offering in Australia in partnership with Optus, with a special launch offer for early customers. In fact, those who sign up before September 30 can take advantage of four …

Remember that Hanoi shop that is selling Google Pixel 4 XL phones? It seems that every single blog and vlog and person in Vietnam is getting their hands on one (and we don’t blame them, we would too if we were there). In another video that has surfaced today ReLab …

With Google moving their Home branding over to Nest we’re not 100% sure what the naming conventions will be going forward, regardless the Mini successor has just dropped by the FCC for a visit — The Google / Nest / Home / Mini (whatever it ends up being called) and …

Someone, most likely quite a few people, will be pulling their hair out about now. Companies these days are unable to prevent some leaks in their supply chain giving information out to users but never in their worst nightmare would Google have predicted that a retailer in Hanoi would be …

I think we’re reaching the point where Google just needs to reveal the Pixel 4 range and just get it over with; the leaks are coming so thick and fast that by the time Google comes to announce something, there’ll be nothing left to know. The rumoured inclusion of a …

Who’s the number one smartphone maker in the world? Well, if you answered Samsung followed closely by Apple, you’d probably be about right. In Western and Central Europe, you’d be at least half right – Samsung is at the top and has been for a while, but the number two …

We’re big fans of HTC’s Vive VR system here at Ausdroid, so we jumped at the change to take Vive Cosmos, the newest version of the PC-bound headset, for a spin. Cosmos features a redesigned headset and controllers and is available for pre-order at vive.com/cosmos with an October 4 release …