Late last month, the major US carriers agreed to rollout RCS .. sort of. The Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative was a custom iteration of the RCS protocol, rather than a standards-based approach, and it would have required a carrier app to make it work. In a rare show of strength against …

It seems the internet loves it some device rumours, and Galaxy S leaks and rumours certainly hit near the top of that list, and thanks to @evleaks we’ve gotten our first set of leaks for next years Galaxy S11 range. Now, there’s nothing too controversial here, a sensor we’ve already …

Google’s annual Google Play Users’ Choice Awards has officially opened for voting and if you’re a Google Play user you can head on over to the voting page and vote for your favourite App, Game, Movie and Book. From there you’ll find the curated list of nominees 10 in each …

Google has continued its program for device integration into Google Assistant with two new devices types making their way into the list of supported devices types, dehumidifiers and humidifiers. Personally, I’d like to put both in the same room and let them battle it out. With these devices being added …

Be together not the same. Remember that Google? Because we sure do, in fact it was the embodiment of that sentiment that arguably made Android the dominant mobile operating system on planet Earth. That philosophy of openness, inclusiveness and most of all user choice and customisation, that’s what made/ makes …

By the looks of a new leak from Evan Blass, Moto is getting set to release the next device in its G8 line up of devices, the Moto G8. Now, if you’re confused and are saying but the G8 has already been released, you’re thinking of the Moto G8 Plus …

With mobile devices becoming increasingly more dominant and more of the daily online interactions taking place on portable devices, it’s no wonder that they are becoming a larger and larger vector for attack by bad actors. Potentially Harmful Applications (PHAs) are one such vector for attack. On Android, we have …

Google’s been slowly but surely adding more and more device types to its list of supported Actions for Google Assistant, and today they’ve opened the flood gates, well the plumbing type anyway. The latest devices types are Baths and Faucets (or you might just call them taps). Both device types …

A few weeks back we discussed the issue with requiring a mobile number to sign up for online services. This topic seems to have struck a chord with many of you, so we thought we’d look at what it would take to just give in and get an inexpensive mobile …

At the Microsoft Ignite developer conference this week Microsoft unveiled its new integrated app for Phones: Microsoft Office for Android and iOS. What’s in it? Office, and all of it – including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, OneNote and basically anything else Office has to offer. So what you say, I …

It seems yesterday’s leak of the Fossil’s Collider Hybrid Smartwatch was just a few hours early with the official listings going live on Fossils international sites, including Australia’s, late last night. The Collider will come in 3 colour and material variants including Smoke Stainless Steel, Black Silicon and Dark Brown …

What’s better than four camera lens on a phone? Five of course — especially if one of those is a 108MP sensor, yes thats not a typo, 108 mega-pixels. That’s what Xioami’s latest Android phone is touting, and from a photography perspective we like where they’re headed. We’re long term …

Back in September this year we got an early look at a leaked hybrid smartwatch from Fossil apparently based on their DIANA platform. At the time the rumours were that the new device would be built on top of Wear OS and include Google services such as Google Pay — …

Google has been conducting a limited rollout of Google Play Points in Japan and then Korea. Today the company has announced that it will be expanding, predictably, to the USA. To earn Google Play Points users need to do is spend real-world money in the Google Play Store on apps, …

With the November security updates rolling out today, it seems as if the original Google Pixel and Pixel XL have finally reached their end of life, at least as far as Google updates are concerned. The original Pixels were launched in October 2016 (and it feels like only a week …