Apps, Games & Google Services

In late June we picked up from the Sony Ericsson Australia website that SE would be bringing their new incarnations of the old X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro — the Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro — to Australia sometime soon. We’ve yet to hear any carriers put their …

Earlier this month Matt put up an article detailing how you could download the newly renovated and soon-to-be-pushed-to-devices Android Market. That Android Market is now slowly rolling out to devices running Android 2.2 and above. The version being rolled out by Google is a version number above the one leaked …

Google has just pushed a new version of Gmail to the Android Market that brings with it a few cool additions to make using Gmail on your Android device more efficient. Google’s official ‘What’s new?’ list provides all the updates to version 2.3.5: Save bandwidth and battery by only syncing …

Google has been constantly working away at the Android Market web store to ensure that there’s enough functionality for both users and developers. Their latest addition to the web store is the 30 day install graph, which gives you a rough idea of how many times the particular application was …

It’s times like these that I wish I owned a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play — maybe I should have purchased myself one during our Wednesday Deal. Sony Ericsson and EA Mobile have teamed up, once again, to launch the extremely well-known title Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (that’s not it in …

With well over 100,000 downloads — anywhere up to 500,000 according to the Android Market — Fruit Ninja is certainly a well-loved game on Android. It has an average star rating of 4.5 out of 5 and would usually set you back $1.19 before you could begin slicing fruit like …

Update: The Android app is to control your content, not to stream from, our apologises. Sonos have just announced their new all-in-one Hi-Fi Sonos Player, the PLAY:3. The PLAY:3 can play any music you throw at it, conveniently conntrolled from your Android device as well. The unit itself has 3 …

Google recently pushed out an updated version of Google Maps and with this update came the ability to download map data within 16km2 (10 miles2) whilst you have a sufficient data connection, so when you go out into the close-range wilderness you can access Google Maps without the need for …

Plenty of people have asked us how to root the Samsung Galaxy S II, so we figured it was about time we shared a little walkthrough with you. We’ve made it as easy as can be, so you can follow along and you too can root your own Galaxy S …

Update: We’ve tried Skype Video calling on Android handsets between the various Ausdroid offices in Sydney Melbourne and Perth and it works just fine.. though over 3G, there can be a bit of lag but it’s quite usable. Let us know how you’ve found it. Finally, an update to Skype …

Google has been slowly chipping away at the Android Market Web Store to try to make it a little better each day. Their latest addition to the store is a more detailed view of User Review statistics, that let you see just how many 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1-star …

Today Facebook launched their new version of Facebook for Android. The new version (v1.6) which we talked about a couple of weeks ago brings access to pages, improvements to the news feed and, finally, the ability to upload videos directly via the app. All of these are welcome additions to …

The big difference between the Apple App Store and the Android Market is the amount of openness each company gives to developers in regards to what content can be within the application being submitted to the Market/Store. Apple won’t allow anything close to risqué; they’ve been known to delete any …

When we saw this request on Twitter from Andrew Singh, we thought “what a brilliant idea!” You should do an article on the best way to backup your phone as its beneficial to new users who have come from other platforms! We agreed, so here’s just such an article. The …

Ausdroid’s Aussie App Review has been on hiatus for a little while, but now we have a Samsung Galaxy S 2 in the Ausdroid head office, it’s time to get back into them when we have time. The first app we decided to have a look at was JAGEN, a …