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Ausdroid Podcast 153 – LIVE tonight at 9pm AEDT
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P1GOFLdWNAI
It's time to catch up on the Android news of the week, from Australia and around the world with episode 153 of the Ausdroid...
ZTE Australia launch the Blade Plus V complete with fingerprint sensor for $399
ZTE Australia has today launched a new phone in their Blade series, with the Blade Plus V now available from JB HiFi stores and...
Facebook is adding TOR support to its Android app
Facebook originally created a Tor onion address at https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ in 2014 to allow users to more securely access the social media network from TOR...
Facebook Messenger is adopting some Material Design UI elements
Facebook's Messenger app is a great free, secure, cross platform option to get hold of pretty much any of your friends at any time....
Go behind the scenes of mapping service Waze with Nat & Lo
Nat & Lo are back for a new year, this time going behind the scenes with mapping app Waze. Waze became a part of...
New app: Train Social wants to help you become friends with fellow commuters
Ever wanted to get in touch with, become friends with or share with fellow commuters while travelling around the system? Well now theres an...
Google+ for Android appears to be letting some users open links in Chrome Custom...
After announcing Chrome Custom Tabs at Google I/O last year, Google began implementing the feature in Chrome Beta in August. The feature has begun...
Aldi will start selling a fitness tracker this Saturday for $69.99
Discount supermarket chain Aldi will begin selling a sports activity tracker this weekend for the low-low price of just $69.99.
The Crane Sports branded activity...
Samsung has apparently fixed the ‘Pen-Gate’ issue on the Note 5
Samsung's launch of the extremely nice Galaxy Note 5 was marred slightly by the uproar caused when it was found the phones stylus could...
Huawei is planning on at least four versions of the P9 this year
Huawei had a pretty great year last year, off the back of strong sales and interest in a number of handsets from the Mate...
Google also lets you install apps directly from the YouTube app
For those not up to date, it came to light yesterday that Google is playing with a new feature which is allowing some people...
[Update: Game Deal added] Google’s App Deal of the week has been updated, Game...
Google's featured app and game deal of the week is a mostly regular weekly deal, but this morning it seems that Google only updated...
Panasonic announce a new Android based Smart Camera
Panasonic has announced the successor to their Lumix CM1 Android smartphone/ camera combo, the Lumix CM10. Right off the bat Panasonic have made one...
There’s a new Humble Mobile Bundle up from Bandai Namco – all the Pacman...
After announcing they were stopping regular Mobile Bundles in favour of one-off special bundles, the Humble Bundle team has remained true to their word...
Pocket Casts update adds improved voice control, Marshmallow Backup & Permissions and new filters
Pocket Casts is a favourite app of the Ausdroid team for a variety of reasons but in short - it's pretty awesome, has cool...