For those familiar with the health-focused french tech company Withings you’d know that they were acquired by Nokia in June of 2016 — that’s Nokia Nokia, not HMD Global — who then turned around earlier this year and sold the business back to one of it’s co-founders Éric Carreel. Today …

Google’s two Pixel product announcements have occurred a few weeks after Apple’s September iPhone event, and this is – perhaps – no coincidence; not only does it give Google an idea of what it’s up against before releasing, but we’ve found something else. One interesting relationship in Australia has between …

At IFA this year we traversed the halls in search of Wear OS news and devices. Many people, myself included, have been critical of Google’s stewardship of the platform with a slow development cycle, the painfully slowness of hardware rollouts eg NFC payments, digital crown adoption and 3 button control …

What’s a tech show without a Google-style scavenger hunt? Google may not always have the largest presence at tradeshows from the perspective of a physical booth, but that said, the Android Things team are here this year. Google is well known for their scavenger hunts, be that pins or badges, …

With the slow and painful death of the 3.5mm headphone port seeming more and more inevitable, those of us who like to get audio out of our overpriced slabs of glass have turned to Bluetooth audio solutions. Personally, I have fallen in love with fully wireless earbuds, and if you …

  Losing things is an age-old problem, finding them again is an even bigger one. Of course in this modern age we have tech for every problem and keeping track of your stuff is no exception and the tracker market segment is growing. At IFA this week Huawei made it …

This week at IFA Alcatel announced an intriguing entrant into the Australia tablet landscape, the Alcatel 3T 8, powered by Android Oreo Go Edition (seriously Google fix this nomenclature). The sub-$130 AUD 8-inch Android tablet will be released in Australia later this year and I think it may have legs. …

At the IFA press conference in Berlin, Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu announced their first smart speaker: the Huawei AI Cube with in-built Amazon Alexa and a bundled 4G modem. The AI Cube is different from any other smart speaker we’re aware of by including a full 4G …

As part of the Huawei IFA Keynote in Berlin Huawei took the wraps off two new colours and a pair of genuine leather finishes for the P20 Pro. While the specs of the devices remain the same, Huawei is extending the consumer options of the range. Unfortunately, at this stage …

  We’re live at IFA where Huawei has just announced the brand new top of the line mobile processor — the Kirin 980 System on a Chip (SoC). Huawei is the first to market with an ARM processor fabricated utilising a 7nm lithography process. What does this mean? More power …

With BlackBerry sliding back into the Android market in a big way at MWC 2017, the team at TCL Communication have continued their careful, respectful and deliberate stewardship of the BlackBerry brand with the launch of the Key 2 earlier this year. Today at IFA Berlin, TCL unveiled the Key …

The Android tablet space has begun to look a little stale, but there may be a renewed interest in affordable but performant Android tablets with Android Go making the jump from phones to tablets. Alcatel seems to agree with that with the announcement of their first Android Oreo (Go edition) …

IFA at its core sees itself as the major annual “show” for all things consumer electronics, there’s everything here from dishwashers, to stick vacuum cleaners, to smartphones and IoT gadgets – IFA is even beginning to expand into the connected car. As a trade show, IFA has many faces, there’s …

Like many of Google’s products Google Calander has completely changed how we use calendars, however like most technology products there’s more lurking just below the surface that you have to know how to access. You may have noticed that by default your Australian Google account will have a “Holidays in …