White Nexus 4 and Android 4.3 coming 10 June?
Prior to Google I/O there were rumours of a White Whale.. no.. a white Nexus 4. In fact, we've been covering these "White Nexus 4" rumours for months, going back as far as November last year.
It seems that this...
The Optus Network: Today, Tomorrow and Beyond
Early this morning, Jason Murray and I attended an Optus network briefing in Sydney, presented by Guenther Ottendorfer, Optus' Managing Director of Networks and Andrew Smith, Vice President of Mobile Radio Engineering. The focus of Optus' briefing was to...
Google Hangouts arrives for tablets
When Google Hangouts launched last week amid the Google I/O fanfare, one thing that was notably missing was support for tablets. We all know that Android tablets do take a bit of a flogging, but the reality is there's...
Samsung – Galaxy S4 on track to sell 10 Million units by next week
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is shaping up to be the best selling Galaxy device to date, with Samsung Electronics co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun advising that the Korean manufacturer is confident that they will pass the 10 million unit sales mark...
HTC will double production capacity for the HTC One in May to meet demand
It's been a rough ride for HTC the past few months, with slipping profits and issues securing components for their latest flagship device, but it appears that things are looking up for the Taiwanese based company; according to Jack...
Instant Upload renamed to Auto Backup
After taking a few videos of my kids tonight I went into the gallery app and was greeted with a new folder called 'Auto Backup'. This folder appears to have replaced the 'Instant Upload' folder, and given the photo...
Hangouts for tablets in the works, SMS might be too
At Google I/O this year, Google unsurprisingly launched its unified messaging services Hangouts. Users of the new service have quickly discovered two shortfalls - one, Hangouts doesn't work on tablets just yet. The second, however, was that contrary to...
Samsung Galaxy S 4 — Review
The Galaxy S III was super popular, but can Samsung repeat last year's success against renewed competition?
The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is set to be the hottest smartphone of 2013, and considering the success of its predecessor, will likely...
Samsung ‘looking’ to free up space on Galaxy S 4
One of the many quirks about Samsung's Galaxy S 4 is that it only has just over 7GB of its 16GB internal memory free, straight out of the box. Samsung's official party line was that so much space was...
Google releases Field Trip application to 80 more countries including Australia
Released in September last year as a US only release, the Field Trip app from Niantic Labs - the team behind Ingress - is a location based app which provides notifcations when you are near certain points of interest...
Google Play Games, now syncing your progress across devices
Cross device sync of game progress, leaderboards and achievements is long overdue on a platform as powerful as Android and now it's here. The Google Play Games platform was announced very early this morning Australian time during the...
Google announces – Google Play Education
At the keynote for Google IO this morning a new initiative announced was Google Play Education. The new initiative seems to be aimed at introducing Google products and services to educational institutions. Google has already integrated into educational institutions...
HTC: No ‘Nexus Edition’ of the HTC One will launch
Earlier this morning, Google's Hugo Barra announced a variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4 running stock Android and covered by the Nexus experience. It's a pretty big deal, and it's even more awesome to see Samsung doing it with...
Android 4.3 confirmed by Developer website
While the next version of Android wasn't announced at the Keynote for Google IO 2013, it appears that the next version of Android has been confirmed on Google's developer website. The screenshot taken by TheVerge :
Shows that along with...
Google Hangouts released, comes as a surprise to no one
Amongst the other things being announced overnight at Google I/O was something we'd certainly anticipated and lusted for, the much-rumoured update to Google's messaging platforms that would unite them all under one brand -- Hangouts.
This morning, Hangouts is live...