Aviate, the intelligent homescreen – our first impressions
Most custom launchers are variations on a theme – static rows of icons with the occasional widget thrown in depending on your taste. Aviate takes a different approach, offering dynamic content that changes depending on your location, the time...
Pat Cash Tennis Academy
Champion tennis player Pat Cash has released a coaching app titled Pat Cash Tennis Academy. The app features beginners to advanced tips, drills, biomechanics, groundstrokes, serve and smash plus more. It also has an overview of his career from...
Nuance updates Swype with Bilingual support and dictation
It seems the keyboard wars are upon us, Google updated their keyboard when Android 4.2 was released with Gesture Typing which was a clear shot across the bow of well known keyboard replacement Swype, since then even Swiftkey has...
Galaxy Note 3 Experience app lets you try out a Note 3 for free
Are you in the market for a new phone but not sure where to go? Are you considering a Galaxy Note 3, but not really sold on its features?
Samsung wants to help ease that decision, and has released...
Google Hangouts 2.0.122 now available in Google Play and rolling out to everyone
The updated Google Hangouts App, which was announced last week just prior to the release of the Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 at their 'Morning With Google' Google+ event has just arrived in Google Play and is rolling...
Swiftkey advises Emoji Support is coming
If the announcement of system wide Emoji support in Android 4.4 was a defining feature of the update for you, you're still out in the cold when using keyboards such as Swiftkey. We asked Swiftkey about Emoji support in...
Google Play Services update disabling Android Device Manger on some devices
The latest update to Google Play Services, the App that Google is using to update older devices with new APIs and services, is having a few teething issues it seems. Android Police have discovered that the latest update -...
Swiftykey adds ‘Layouts for Living’ to their keyboard, combining tablet and phone into one...
One of the most popular keyboard replacement apps on Google Play - Swiftkey - has overnight launched their new Layouts For Living to their keyboard.
The new Layouts for Living, will allow Swiftkey first and foremost to do away with...
Google Helpouts video chat app now live on Android or Chrome
It certainly has been a long time coming, but Google's Helpouts app has gone live for Android devices and as an extension within the Chrome web browser.
Google originally announced the Helpouts services quietly back on 20 August stating that...
Shipping delays hitting Australian Nexus 5 orders from Google Play
The Nexus 5 has had a relatively pain free launch when it comes to ordering, shipping,back end transactions and seemingly supply chain. The Google Play store did finally report the Nexus 5 as out of stock on Sunday, however...
Google launches Android 4.4 Quick Start Guide in Google Play Books – but you...
Anyone who has made the decision to not purchase a Nexus 5, but is still holding one of the devices in line to receive the latest Android update, is keen to learn all there is to know about Android...
Watching the Melbourne Cup in Australia with Android.
It's the race that stops the nation, it's an Australian tradition that's reached the point where most everyone in Australia is glued to a TV for around 3-4 minutes at 3PM on the first Tuesday in November, but what...
Tap & Pay in Android 4.4 – Will you be able to use it...
The introduction of Tap & Pay in Android 4.4 has sparked the hopes of many Android users in Australia of an phone based NFC payment system such as that used in the US since the launch of Google Wallet...
All Nexus 5 models in stock, but be prepared for delays
Are you getting upset and teary eyed that people have the new Nexus 5 in their hands and you don't? Were you particularly distraught to read that stock was exhausted?
Well, it's time to dry those eyes, because Ausdroid reader...
Nexus 5 completely out of stock on Australian Google Play Store
If you've been hemming and hawwing about whether to purchase the Nexus 5 through Google Play or not, then the decision just got a whole lot harder with the Google Play store now listing all storage options and colours...