Google looking to bring Always-On Ambient Display to Pixel phones
When Google brought Ambient Display to Nexus devices everyone loved it. Google were not the first to use an Ambient Display-type feature but that hasn't stopped them developing their implementation such that it improved enough to make the cut...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 Wi-Fi receving KitKat
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 owners rejoice, your KitKat update is on its way. According to a tip from reader, SN Harden the update hit his Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 this weekend past, updating his Jelly Bean build to KitKat...
Sony Ericsson outlines how they prepare an Ice Cream Sandwich
In a perfect world we would all recieve an OTA upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich within a few hours of the announcement, but in reality we wait months for manufacturers to announce which phones will be upgraded and then...
Android 11 Beta now available for the OPPO Find X2 Pro
OPPO have been criticised (by us as well) for their slow (if they actually ever arrive) updates to their phones over the years but they have been slowly turning that around and at least providing updates, eventually. Now...
Optus are also about to start network testing Samsung Galaxy S II Ice Cream...
Optus have just confirmed with us via email that they are about to start network testing the Android 4.0.3 update for the Samsung Galaxy S IIl. This means that all the major carriers are about to be in the...
More than 1 million Google accounts breached by new Android malware ‘Gooligan’
In a rather alarming statistic, Check Point Research has revealed that Android malware by the name of Gooligan has gotten around and breached upwards of a million Google accounts, and this figure is reportedly increasing by more than 13,000 accounts per...
What’s in the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge update to Android 5.1.1?
It hasn't yet arrived in Australia -- thought it may not be far off -- but the Android 5.1.1 update for Samsung's Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge has landed in the US, and it appears to be pretty decent.
Of...
More Glass updates bring much requested features
With each update, Google are making Glass a more and more attractive prospect to average (ie. non-developer) users. The next updates that are coming out are offering some of the most requested features to the wearable technology. The first...
Samsung announces Bixby Voice is now available on the Galaxy S8/S8+ in the US
Almost a full three months after the initial launch, Samsung has today announced that after a beta trial, the Bixby Voice component of their virtual assistant is now available for everyone in the US for people using the Galaxy...
Give your LG G4 a second life
At MWC 2017 LG announced their new flagship, the G6 but for some the expense of buying the latest and greatest is beyond their means. For others they may have purchased the G4 less than 12 months ago...
Android 4.1 Jellybean announced at Google IO Keynote
Vic Gundotra introduced the Key note and then handed over to Dave Burke to show off Project Butter. Basically a better experience in touch response. Android 4.1 is optimized for low touch latency, Jellybean adds triple buffering in the...
OTA update available to HTC phones to patch security issue
As you may recall from the post we put up last month, an issue was discovered on some HTC phones that could possibly allow some apps access to log files collected by HTC. HTC advised that they were working...
CyanogenMod 10.1 Release Candidate now available
CyanogenMod - possibly the most popular third party ROM for Android - has made a release candidate of their newest offering available.
CyanogenMod 10.1 is based on Android Jelly Bean 4.2 and is currently said to support just over 40...
OnePlus announce that OxygenOS is ready to go
After announcing a brief delay to their homegrown Lollipop based OS for the OnePlus One late last month, OnePlus has today announced that the OxygenOS ROM is now ready to launch.
The update is ready for downloading from the OnePlus...
Huawei Ascend P6 to get KitKat in January in China
Huawei has announced on their EmotionUI web page that the Chinese domestic version of the Ascend P6 will be updated from Android 4.2 Jellybean straight to Android 4.4 KitKat in January. At this stage we don't know if there...