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Edit: Sadly it looks like they have either announced the countries incorrectly or have accidentally shown their hand early. They’ve updated the post, removing Canada and Australia and added the following apology : We’re sorry for an earlier post that said we’re launching in more countries on 11/13, but stay …

For those of you who don’t know, the Humble Bundle is an initiative designed to sell and promote independent games. The Humble Bundlers select a number of cool indie games, which are sold DRM-free on their website for a price that you determine yourself. If you want to pay $5, cool! …

I was in Sydney yesterday to take advantage of an invitation from LG Australia. I met with Brad Reed, Senior Marketing Manager – Mobile Communications, Content and Applications and Josh Corin, Local Product Manager – Mobile Communications. We spoke for some time about some upcoming products – the Nexus 4, …

We first saw the HTC One X+ back at the beginning of last month when it was announced globally. At the time we approached HTC about an Australian launch and were advised that “The HTC One X + was announced globally on 3 October 2012. However, HTC cannot comment on …

Google Play is hosting a G+ hangout tonight, 11pm PT (this translates to about 6pm AEST), to have a chat to Rovio and Lucasfilm, moderated Roy Bahat, revealing the latest chapter in the Angry Birds phenomenon, Angry Birds Star Wars, right before it’s available on Google Play.

Australian owners of Samsung’s Galaxy S III have been waiting for the Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” update for their devices for some time. The Galaxy S III 4G recently launched here in Australia running Android 4.1, fueling speculation that the update for the older model device was imminent. Google originally …

If you’re on the lookout for a more in depth gaming experience on your Android device, then you may want to look at Arcane Legends, the latest MMORPG offering from the folks over at Spacetime Studios. It has been released as a beta from Google Play in Australia and Canada. …

With the release of the new Nexus devices Google is certainly opening themselves up to many questions regarding many things such as how exactly they are able to offer their devices so cheap, whether we will see a Motorola Nexus and what exactly the Motorola purchase was about. John Lagerling, …

When we first got word that the LG Optimus G was coming to Australia we were advised that the phone would be delivered to different markets with one of two different camera sensors either 8MP or 13MP depending on the market. We were advised early on that Australia would be …

The Sony Xperia Go is the active, tough and “rugged” member of the Xperia family. It features similar styling and features to Sony’s other Xperia devices, but has the added benefit of being dust- and water-resistant. For people who require such a device, there are limited choices in the market …

Google has released a new commercial over night, rather than showing off a particular function this time they’ve gone for a more whimsical approach to what people use the Nexus 7 for. The commercial shows a group of people setting up an art installation on a rooftop, based on the …

We recently received an email notifying us that Samsung had done something both very unusual and slightly worrying! With the OTA update that Galaxy S III owners received they also received two bonuses of an unwanted nature : Their app drawer was now completely locked to whatever apps were in …

The ink has barely dried on our previous post about the slew of Android 4.2 applications becoming available for Android 4.0 devices, but the next treat is already on the table for Galaxy Nexus users. tommrazek01 from XDA has released the Galaxy Nexus Android 4.2 Transformation Pack, which includes the …

Since Android Police leaked the updated Gmail application a few weeks ago, a number of other applications from Android 4.2 have been leaked online. You can now download the entire system dump from the LG Nexus 4, but it probably won’t do you much good. Some helpful people around the …

The Play Store has built-in security features that scan its over 700,000 applications for malicious code, and Android Police are reporting that Android 4.2 extends this app-scanning feature to all applications, regardless of where you downloaded them. Computerworld spoke with Hiroshi Lockheimer, Android’s VP of Engineering, about Android’s new security features, …