Vodafone offer new value packed 5G home broadband solutions
Vodafone is one of the mobile carriers that offer a 5G alternative to fixed-line broadband. Now, that's great of course, but with such a wide range of offerings what represents good value?
Vodafone is trying to redefine that value with...
Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton says don’t buy 5G, but it has its place
The mobile carrier space is hyper-competitive, with the big three always looking for an edge over the competition. But what about the MNVO space where it's just as competitive, but without a lot of the overheads. Often you can...
Qualcomm is launching new Snapdragon 7 and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset processor for...
Qualcomm, the brand behind the infamous Snapdragon processors in many mobile devices, has launched 2 new Snapdragon 7 and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 mobile processors for premium and high-tiers mobile devices.
The company’s newest flagship platform, Snapdragon 8+, has been...
YouTube Music streaming and app tile now available for Wear OS devices
Google has announced that its YouTube Music streaming service is now available for Wear OS users who can download the new app tiles and stream over more than 80 million songs and thousands of playlists right from their wrist...
Google has added an app launcher to the original Nest Hub with the latest...
An incidental swipe on my first-generation Nest Hub revealed the app launcher has arrived. Exactly when the update occurred isn't clear, but the fact that this is a feature previously available on the Nest Hub Max suggests it is...
Boost Mobile continues huge growth and has high targets for the future
Boost Mobile is one of the biggest MNVOs in Australia and continues to grow, in fact, has doubled its market over four years. In real world figures, that's over 700,000 Aussies -- myself included -- on the network, 7%...
vivo launching two new high speed smartphones with the vivo Y55 5G and the...
vivo, a sub-brand of BBK electronics and OPPO, has today announced that it will be launching two new high speed smartphones into the Australian marketplace and are aimed at the budget conscious consumer who wants high end features without...
Google Assistant and Fitbit will be better together
Ever since Google purchased Fitbit, we've known the integration of the Fitbit platform was coming. As spotted by 9to5Google, it appears that the time -- unsurprising with the soon to arrive Pixel Watch in the works -- is very...
Ookla Speedtest now gives more real world latency figures
Speed tests are great, but they typically present a perfect world scenario. Your network is clear and you're checking what the peak speeds and the lowest latency possible are. But what about when someone is updating games on PC...
D-Link G415 AX1500 4G Smart Router delivers mobile broadband as core home networking
While the NBN is officially "finished" a lot of Aussies still can't get a good connection. So poor, in fact, are the connections that a mobile connection provides a better solution to accessing the world wide web.
In recognition of...
Google has made the I/O 2022 Keynote accessible with audio transcription
Our world is very visual, we've got the beauty of nature to admire, people and we sell with pictures. But what if you can't see?
Google has been working very hard for the last couple of years on making the...
Google Messages may soon suggest actions for individual messages
We're seeing a continued effort from Google to make Google Messages work. RCS is a significant step forward not just in functionality, but also in security from SMS. More recently we've seen iMessage reactions now working correctly, end-to-end encryption...
Telstra opening 5G services to MNVOs very soon
Starting this July, Telstra has confirmed that its 5G network will be available to virtual operators and their customers. This increased network access most impressively includes the mmWave where we've seen the greatest potential speeds so far.
The problem, however,...
Google is relaunching Google Wallet alongside Google Pay, worldwide
First, there was Google Wallet, then there was Android Pay, then there was Google Pay, and now there is Google Wallet? At first glance, this could look like Google's merry-go-round of product naming, but we think it actually makes...
Google announce Immersive view for Google Maps
Google Maps has long been one of Google's most popular and useful services, with a steady pace of development and new features rolling out. Today at Google IO 2022 Google unveiled 'Immersive view'.
By combining billions of images from Street...