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Netgear PTV3000 Coming soon to Australia – Miracast compatability now available
Since the announcement of Android 4.2 which brough Miracast capability to the new Nexus flagship phone the Nexus 4, a working Miracast display adapter which you can plug into your existing TV has been...
LG Sells 15 Million L Series phones globally
After launching their design-centric L Series phones at Mobile World Congress last year, LG has apparently been enjoying a pretty decent amount of success with the line. Their latest announcement of sales figures shows...
Opinion: Why the HTC One X will probably be my last HTC phone
With HTC set to announce their latest flagship phone, the M7, this week at press conferences in London, New York City and Sydney, I feel that it's time for a rant, explaining why I...
Ausdroid Podcast 057 — The Future of Android — 12/02/2013
Welcome back to the awesomeness that is the Ausdroid Podcast. We are hitting the airwaves or video waves whatever you want to call it with another killer show. This time it's all about Android's...
Press: The latest app to add DashClock extension
On Friday James wrote an article about an update to Falcon Pro that added a DashClock extension and now Press - the Google Reader client - has begun offering this integration with DashClock as...
Gumtree – Android App now available
If you're into purchasing or selling second hand items online in Australia then of course you'll know about Gumtree. The Gumtree Australia Android App was released this week into the Google Play Store for...
Tweet Lanes goes Open Source, now a community driven project
Developer Chris Lacy was, up until a few months ago working on one of the most promising and popular Twitter clients around - Tweet Lanes - however, with Twitter about to implement a 100,000...
Google to open retail stores in the US – Nexus, Chromebooks and Google Glass!
Despite the fact that Google has not been able to get their act together with regards to retailing hardware in a virtual environment through the Play Store, it looks like Google is set to...
Ubuntu Touch Dev Preview for Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 coming February 21st
Canonical have announced that a developer preview for the mobile version of Ubuntu will be available to download and test next week, as well as the source code and development tools required to flash...
Google Play: Developers, Privacy and You
Australian developer Dan Nolan, creator of the Paul Keating Insult Generator app, this week voiced concerns over what he sees as a “Massive Google Play Privacy Issue". In a blog post on his personal...
Falcon Pro adds DashClock extension
Roman Nurik is an Android Developer Advocate at Google, where he works on UI and visual design. A few days ago, he released DashClock, an open-source lockscreen widget that shows unread text messages,...
First Impressions: Sony Xperia Z
We’re just under a week away from the Xperia Z’s official Australian launch on February 20. Many of the Ausdroid staff are excited to see what Sony's cooked up for us, keen to...
Android 4.2.2 factory images released for Nexus 4,7,10 and Galaxy Nexus
The biggest news in the past couple of days has been the release of Android 4.2.2, which brings Quick Settings toggles, app download countdown timers, some new sounds and a number of bug fixes....
Ausdroid Podcast 056 – Nexus 4, HTC and the Ausdroid Foundation – 5/2/2013
Last week was a comparatively quiet week for Australian Android news. We discussed Buzz's HTC Butterfly review and some app news, though the Nexus 4's re-emergence on the Google Play Store caused a bit...
Game Review: Ball Of Woe
New Sydney-based developer Doppler Interactive recently released their first Android game Ball of Woe to the Google Play store. The game is the brainchild of Joshua - the developer, and Jessica - the graphic...