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HP Slate 7, Welcome to Android
I woke this morning rather excited to see that HP and are now an official Android partner. Announcing the HP Slate 7 at Mobile World Congress in Spain over night. Upon hearing the news,...
Huawei announce the Ascend P2 at Mobile World Congress
Huawei has kicked off the press announcements for Mobile World Congress with an announcement of their new Ascend P2. The new phone is running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean but skinned with the Emotion UI...
Samsung makes the Galaxy Note 8 official – releasing globally in Q2 2013
Sure looks pretty, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 which was unofficially announced by JK Shin the head of Samsung Mobile back in January has today been made official. The 8" Tablet which features the...
Asus releases another MWC teaser – A New Discovery at Hand
The MWC teasers continue, this time with a new one from Asus which seems to continue the docking theme. The new video which was tweeted from the Asus Australia Twitter feed comes With the...
Google Glass to launch this year and cost less than $1500
This week was a big week for Glass, Google's reality-augmenting headwear project. Google released a video showing off the UI and how you interact with the device on Thursday, they have now started accepting...
Wings Clipped: Falcon Pro hits Twitter’s User Token limit
It's no secret that most of the Ausdroid team don't use the official Twitter client for Android. The reasons for doing so change from person to person - lack of Holo UI compliance, slow...
Google I/O registrations open March 13th
Google has just announced via the Google Developers Google+ page that the date and time when registrations for Google IO 2013 will open. Tickets will go on-sale for $900USD on March 13, 2013 at...
Jelly Bean 4.2.1 leak for the Samsung Galaxy S III
Android Jelly Bean 4.2.1 for the Galaxy S III is still under internal testing by Samsung, but as is often the case, it has leaked it's way into the big wide world of the...
Nexus 4 Wireless charging orb removed from Australian Google Play Store
This afternoon it appears that Google has for some reason removed the Nexus 4 Wireless charging orb from the Australian Google Play Store. When the wireless charging orb first appeared on the Google Play...
Sony confirms Xperia Z availability, pricing
While Sony's Xperia Z launch event the other day might have been a little short on the details we really wanted, we're not going to hold that against them because we've now got official...
Google begins offering Chromebook Pixel in US and UK – Wi-Fi model now, 4G...
Google has announcedd overnight that they will be releasing the Chromebook Pixel. The Chromebook Pixel is a high end version of the Chrome OS series of laptops which is designed by Google themselves.
The Chromebook...
Google begins offering Chromebook Pixel in US and UK – Wi-Fi model now, 4G...
Google has announcedd overnight that they will be releasing the Chromebook Pixel. The Chromebook Pixel is a high end version of the Chrome OS series of laptops which is designed by Google themselves.
The...
Nexus 4 raffle winner and runners up announcement
Well our Nexus 4 raffle was a huge success, with 320 entries received. With your help, we raised over $1600 for the Ausdroid Foundation, which is a fantastic result.
To make things a little more...
HTC One Sydney launch event – Wrap
Among those in the know, you’ll hear stories about how HTC puts on some of the best launch parties around. Tonight they put on a bit of a party on Level 6 of the...
Google’s Nexus Youtube channel uploads then immediately removes video
In what seems like a case of someone at Google getting too trigger-happy with the 'publish' button, a new ad for the Nexus 7 was uploaded to the Google Nexus Youtube channel, with the...