Jelly Bean update for unbranded Australian Galaxy S III handsets available now
A tip off from an Ausdroid reader Michael who has advised that the Jelly Bean update has arrived for his unbranded Samsung Galaxy S III which he purchased outright from Dick Smith Electronics. The I9300XXELLA Android 4.1.2 update is...
Huawei GR5 2017 — Australian Review
Huawei and other Chinese manufacturers dominate the low to mid range sector of the smartphone market in Australia and for good reason. They build quality hardware, and manage to do so without hiking the prices. The bulk of consumers...
Vodafone Australia announces purchase of Lebara Mobile – business as usual for now
Vodafone Australia has today announced that they have purchased Lebara Mobile’s Australian mobile business assets.
As part of the deal, Vodafone will take over Lebara’s mobile base and will have the right to use the Lebara brand in Australia. The...
Motorola G7 — Australian Review
Motorola has been something of a quiet achiever in the mobile space over the last three years or so offering some excellent devices, importantly at a really sharp price. Roll on a few years and we’ve got the...
New Onix branded Android and Windows Phone phones going on-sale at Aldi this Saturday
Aldi is back at it again, offering not one, but two new mobile phones for sale as of this Saturday, the 21st of February. The Onix branded phones are fairly mid-range in specs with a fairly compact form-factor to...
Telstra pushing out Jelly Bean to the Samsung Galaxy S III
Looks like Telstra Samsung Galaxy S III owners are being prompted to download the Android 4.1 'Jelly Bean' update on their handsets Over The Air(OTA) right now. Reports are coming in of users being prompted to download and install...
Personal inbox data sold by popular Android iOS Edison Mail app
VICE media has obtained a J.P. Morgan document revealing that some popular apps including Edison Mail scrape users' email inboxes
"and sells products based off that information to clients in the finance, travel, and e-Commerce sectors. The contents of Edison...
Sony Xperia E4g – Review
Sony's Xperia E4 was announce earlier this year, and it showed off a new design which Sony referred to as a 'curved, OmniBalance design'. Basically, more rounded, more curvy. Neat.
The Xperia E4 would come in two variants, one supporting...
Another day, another leak – It’s Samsung Galaxy S20 series for real
We've seen the trend over the last couple of years that manufacturers just leak like a sieve. There's no change in 2020, with the Samsung Galaxy S20 series of phones leaking at a steady rate for several weeks now....
Xiaomi Mi 10 launches online this week, on February 13 – destined for China,...
Xiaomi will be getting the jump on MWC 2020, launching its new phone Thursday this week. Considering that Xiaomi's star is rising in western markets - and is already quite successful in China - this phone will be big...
Reports: Samsung is the latest name to rethink its MWC presence
The threat from the Coronavirus is real, especially for companies and employees in China. Coronavirus has now killed more people than SARS such is its threat. It is a major concern for anyone travelling at the moment and has...
OnePlus 6 — Australian Review
OnePlus built its empire (so to speak) on being the "flagship killer" at half the price. They offered a phone that was pretty good, at a price that was really good, and sold via limited channels in limited markets....
LG V30+ — Australian Review
LG's mobile strategy in 2017 took a mild hit with the underwhelming G6 launch at Mobile World Congress. The focus for LG however seems to have shifted more to their second half of the year launch of the V...
Sony Xperia XZ2 — Australian Review
When it comes to the mobile phone landscape, there’s certain companies that engender a feeling of passion, for me Sony is that brand.
I’ve been an admitted Sony fan for a long time. I love their home entertainment gear -...
Hey Google… Please finish one of your music apps
Like others on the Ausdroid team, and like many of you - our readers - I guess, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that I’m a bit of an Android fan. Nor, really, should it surprise anyone...