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LG has today unveiled local availability of their LG G7 ThinQ in Australia. They’ve opted for direct retail sale at $1099 via JB HIFI and MobileCiti, the same price point as Huawei’s P20 Pro. Key Features At the event LG marketing executives made it clear that across their broad range of …

In Woolworths catalogue starting tomorrow, Wednesday 6th June 2018, if you’re purchasing from a selected range of Vodafone branded pre-paid phones, SIM Starter kit or recharge, you’ll find a nice little bonus with a $20 Netflix Gift Card included on a selected range. The deal, which runs for the next …

Well its that time of the year when the major retailers begin their half yearly sales and it seems Harvey Norman have dropped the price of the newly released Nokia 1, which retails norman for $149 to $99 – thats $50 off. The Nokia 1 is one of the latest …

Overnight Asus held their annual press conference at Computex and unveiled its first Gaming Smartphone: The ROG Phone. Touting the catch line “Dare to be different” the announcement came among a number of others aimed at the bleeding edge of the gaming market. The design has been thought through with …

If you were a bit excited by the leaked Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL screen protectors earlier this week, then this might have you a little more excited. I know it does here. A Twitter user with the handle @PhoneDesigner has created some 3D mockups using the leaked screen protector …

HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, has continued to rapidly renew its portfolio of Nokia branded Android smartphones, announcing the latest range of budget smartphones overnight at an event in Russia, launching the Nokia 5.1, Nokia 3.1 and Nokia 2.1. The latest devices have been designed to satisfy essential …

Google’s next Pixel launch event has got to be at least four months away, but it’s worth noting that it was about this time last year that credible rumours about the Pixel 2 started to appear. With that in mind, it’s not terribly surprising that we’re seeing leaks starting now …

According to the latest ABS Internet Activity Survey, Australians are only using 2.2GB of mobile data per month on average. Before you start crying “fake news”, Boost Mobile co-founder Peter Adderton told us that his company’s subscribers are only using 4GB per month on average, and that’s an audience that …

You might not have even known this, but Huawei offered a service in some markets to unlock the bootloaders of their mobile devices, though it seems it was never really available to Australians. However, Huawei has decided to shutter the service, citing a desire to provide a better quality of …

2018 has become the year of the notch, just as last year was the year of the shrinking bezels. Surely the next innovation due to arrive in the smartphone world is a full display phone with no notch, and Vivo seem to think so, aiming to be first to market …

Announced after the hubbub of Mobile World Congress earlier this year, LG’s G7 ThinQ is now confirmed as launching in Australia on June 7, with an asking price of $1,099. LG has confirmed in a press release this afternoon that its 2018 flagship smartphone will go on sale at JB …

Telstra has had another outage, the third time this month alone, this time knocking out parts of its 3G and 4G network, with customers taking to social media to find out what is going on. At the time of writing, Telstra claims their network is recovering after faulty hardware was …

When Nokia announced the X6 the other day, fans the world around bemoaned the expectation that it would remain a Chinese exclusive phone. Now, that seems set to change, according to a tweet from HMD Global’s Chief Product Officer. After learning of the high traffic from users liking the looks …