Android OS and Updates

Telstra today announced on their community forum something that many HTC One XL owners have been painfully waiting for. The Jelly Bean update was approved earlier today (Monday 24th December). Deployment is also scheduled to begin today at 4PM,...

If you own Samsung's first ever smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, you may have found an update being pushed out that moved the Gear smartwatch from Android to Samsung's own Tizen OS. Tizen OS is, of course, the operating system...

The update to Android 4.4 for the Motorola Razr M and Razr HD has been a long awaited by Australian owners, ever since Motorola announced the KitKat update for US models last November. But the wait is apparently almost...

Motorola have always been one of the faster companies to provide version updates for their Android handsets and they are set to continue this in the future. Today they have announced that they will be rolling out Android 9.0...

If the news the other day that OTA updates for the seemingly long neglected Nexus 9 weren't far away got you excited, your excitement will be muted this morning, with the OTA update arriving but not with Android 5.1....

At the developer keynote in San Francisco last week, Samsung unveiled the latest iteration of their User Interface (UI), announcing Samsung One UI. The new UI is heading to the Galaxy S9/S9+ and Note 9 as part of the...

Remember OBD2AA? The app that did what Google could not -- allowed Android Auto users the ability to view OBD2 data. The innovative developer who created OBD2AA is at it again, doing something that Google have not done --...

The beautiful thing about Android and other open source is that there's a great deal of transparency in the delivery, even if the central party (Google in this case) aren't necessarily being hugely proactive on the information feed. Until the...

Australian Nexus 6P owners on the Telstra network will be pleased to know that the issues with 4G switching are close to being at an end, with reports starting to filter in that the long-awaited Over-The-Air (OTA) update to...

Project Ara, the lego-like snap together modular phone project which moved over to Google under the Advanced Technology and Projects Group as part of the sale of Motorola to Lenovo, is picking up steam with Google announcing a developer...

Lollipop is so close you can almost taste the sugary goodness, with that the last of the major Google apps are getting their Material design makeover. This morning the Calendar app is also getting a material design makeover and...

Razer has this morning announced several new additions to its gaming hardware lineup, both mobile and home-based solutions. The hardware covers everything from audio to laptops and streaming needs; each has improved on previous generations and lifted the bar...

Last week we posted a discussion about issues paying for eBay purchases using PayPal on mobile ever since I turned on 2FA. Following that, PayPal almost immediately reached out to us to say that what I, and some others...

Just as they did at last year's Google IO, Google has today announced the release of a developer preview of the next version of Android during the keynote of the 2015 conference. The Android version M developer preview was...

One of our great writers, Matty Booth, is currently at the HTC Velocity 4G launch event in Sydney checking out the device before it goes on sale tomorrow to consumers. When Telstra were asked about Ice Cream Sandwich for...