In case you didn’t know, Gesture Navigation is coming to Android 10 in a big way. Love it or hate it, Gestures are here to stay and they’ll be the default going forward. One thing that has come out in recent weeks is that – at least in the recent …

With the impending launch of the Nest Hub Max looming on the horizon it seems Google is preparing the Google App on your phone to play nicely with the new device. With the launch of the Nest Hub Max, Smart Displays will pick up a new feature, Face Match, allowing …

Google Maps is one of Google’s ‘flagship’ services that has transcended into something more than the sum of its parts. The latest update to the service sees the introduction of multi-mode transport. The traditional Google Maps journey involves selecting your destination, selecting your transport mode (walking, driving, public transport etc) …

Since the announcement that Disney+ was heading to Australia and New Zealand on the 12h of November many of us at Ausdroid have been searching for details about the service. With big new titles such as the Mandaoloran already in post-production and series’ such as the new Obi-Wan Kenobi recently …

I have to admit I have become that guy who speaks to the Assistant constantly — turn on the lights, open the garage door, send a message to Chris, what time is it is Prague — you get the point. One annoying issue with this on mobile is that the …

In technology, all good things must come to an end, and in the consumer technology space, the time between releasing a product and it being cut off from future software updates can be all too short. Some devices last less than a year before being left abandoned on the digital …

The Smart Home or the Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming increasingly popular and amongst the range of devices that are rising in popularity is security cameras. Just like most modernisations of old technologies, the ‘Smart’ variant of the old security camera brings with it some great improvements. We’ve been …

With Fathers Day just around the corner, there’s always a few good deals to be found and as we posted last week there is a sale on over at Lenovo that’s pretty good if you’ve been thinking of getting a Lenovo Smart Display. We loved the Lenovo Smart Display when …

The voice assistant speaker market has seen significant expansion in recent years growing from nothing to voice assistants being in all the things. Since the category emerged, we’ve seen the arrival of smart speakers, smart displays, smart TVs, smart headphones and now smart clocks. We first heard about the first …

Huawei has begun a bit of a tradition over the past few years unveiling their top of the line SoC at IFA Berlin each September, and it looks like this year will be no different. We had already seen some hints at the new SoC and now a teaser video …

If you consider yourself an audiophile, but will still lower yourself to listen to streaming music then you may well be wanting a premium smart speaker with witch to stream your tunes. Bose seems to think there’s a market for such a device and has released their first battery powered …

When Google announced their first Assistant-powered Smart Clock in association with Lenovo there was one feature that was definitely missing, photo album support. Today Google has corrected that oversight officially announcing that an update is coming to the device. Over the next week Lenovo Smart Clock owners will get the …

Android Q has been officially named, and as we predicted the next version of Android is Android 10. That’s right Google’s Tasty Treat tradition is no more: today marks the end of an era, and deep down we’re ok with that. So why did Google drop their cavity-causing confection naming …

Alongside Google’s announcement that they were dropping the tasty treats naming in favour of simple and predictable version numbers, Google has also unveiled a branding update for Android going forward. Firstly, don’t worry the Android logo isn’t going anywhere, nor are they changing Android’s name. So what are they doing? …

With Google deciding to move their smart home products under the Nest brand going forward we’ve been expecting a re-brand of the old product lines going forward, it seems Google’s plan may just be to replace them with an updated version. According to ‘sources’ it seems that the Nest team …