All Google Play developers can now reply to user reviews
Back in June 2012, Google gave 'top developers' the ability to respond directly to user reviews through the Play Store, which is great for communication between customers and developers. Then in January this year, Google started giving more developers...
Google Play Services teardown reveals app data syncing
In another of their famous apk teardowns, Android Police have discovered what is probably the best thing to come to Android since Mathias Duarte -- app data syncing. There are some other interesting reveals too, but for me this...
Confirmed: Sony Xperia ZR announced
Sony have today confirmed the rumour we reported at the end of April, the Xperia ZR is on it's way. The specs that were leaked a few weeks back were pretty much on the money -- a standout...
Cyanogenmod Nightly builds just around the corner for the HTC One
If you're an HTC One user and a fan of the popular third party ROM Cyanogenmod, it's time to party! Nightly builds are now available for the brand new HTC One. Nightly builds means that the team...
White Nexus 4 Poses for Photos Again
Back in November last year we reported on an interesting offer from Carphone Warehouse which involved a white LG Nexus 4. This unfortunately failed to materialise and was largely forgotten about until January when someone snapped a photo of...
Parrot AR.Drone Academy – now boarding on Android
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Parrot, makers of the AR.Drone quadrotor UAV, advised us today through their Australian PR agency that they've released an updated version of their Android control app AR.FreeFlight to the Google Play store. Alongside the already-existing remote control functionality for...
Nova Launcher updated to version 2.1: New menus and more options
A favourite launcher replacement amongst Ausdroid's writers is TeslaCoil Software's Nova Launcher, and it's easy to see why. Released shortly after Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, Nova Launcher feels like a stock AOSP-based launcher, but it has enough extra...
How to fix lag problems on the Samsung Galaxy S 4
Samsung's latest beast, the Galaxy S 4, with its 1.9GHZ quad-core Snapdragon 600 should be the fastest device you've ever used. But sadly, for a lot of people, this simply isn't the case. Whether the issue is one of...
Samsung Galaxy S 4 mini emerges, poses for photos
Though Samsung hasn't really said too much about a possible Galaxy S 4 mini, the leaked details, user agent profiles showing up in log files, and even some thoughts from the Wall Street Journal tend to suggest that such...
Live long and Prosper, Star Trek Movies on special in the Play Store
While I personally have no need to purchase these via Google Play as I'm geeky enough to own them as a box set, those of you who are yet to make the purchase of any or all of the...
Google Sound Search – Now live in Australia
Google's own answer to SoundHound and Shazam, as well as the many other song identifying apps available on the Play store, has finally come to Australia. Sound Search in both Google Now and Widget form is now functioning...
Leaked images show Hangouts will be the official name
Google's new unified messaging service, "officially" has a name. Techradar have posted some leaked images that show the app is now (only days from Google I/O) using the name "Hangouts".
While there's little surprise left in the...
Play Games leaks from Google HQ ahead of IO 2013
We speculated a short while ago about the impending introduction of some sort of gaming addition to Google's array of services for Android. Frankly, it's perhaps a little past due -- while we can of course enjoy games from...
Samsung shows off SideSync
Samsung has recently released a new app called SideSync that allows you to use your Galaxy mobile device and your Samsung PC together, and now Samsung have released a video showing off some of the features.
SideSync will allow you...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom might have been confirmed by the Bluetooth SIG
Samsung are rumoured to be releasing a few new devices under the 'S4' moniker, and one of those is the Galaxy S4 Zoom. The device is rumoured to have a 16MP camera with a 10x optical zoom in a...