OTA Update now available for Samsung Galaxy S II from Vodafone, improves web browsing
If you purchased your Samsung Galaxy S II from Vodafone, then you've got an update waiting in the cloud to be pulled down to your Dual-Core superphone. You can either update your phone over-the-air (FOTA) or via Kies. To...
Rumour: Optus will stock the Galaxy Tab 10.1 soon, XOOM is on its way...
I've returned from the Rumour Mill with a bag of salt and this news. The first part of the rumour is that Optus will stock the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the near future. Our source said this has been...
HTC EVO 3D overclocked to 1.7GHz, Sensation should also be cooking bacon soon
The above picture gets my geek juices flowing. The developer of the overclocking application SetCPU, Michael Huang, has managed to get the HTC EVO 3D, which is powered by a 1.2GHz Dual-Core Qualcomm MSM8660 CPU, overclocked to a whopping...
Download Google Maps data for use when you don’t have a data connection
Google recently pushed out an updated version of Google Maps and with this update came the ability to download map data within 16km2 (10 miles2) whilst you have a sufficient data connection, so when you go out into the...
HTC ChaCha now available from Crazy John’s in black, $0 on $25 plan
The 'Facebook Phones' have been a long time coming, but one of them is finally here! The HTC ChaCha is readily available from Crazy John's for $0 upfront on their $25 plan which includes $200 of credit and 400MB...
LG Optimus Black will hit Telstra July 12th, $0 on $49 Freedom Plan
The LG Optimus Black may already be available on a handful of Carriers, and I already have one in my hands right now to review, but come July 12th we'll be able to add Telstra to the list of...
Samsung Galaxy S II will launch on Telstra’s network July 26th, $840 outright, ‘NextG...
So it turns out the rumour we'd heard was a little off, maybe due to the delays in Telstra making sure the Galaxy S II was 100% optimised for the NextG Network. All that aside, Telstra have officially announced...
Android 3.1 with TouchWiz finds its way onto the Galaxy Tab 10.1v
A little more Tablet news for you, especially good-ish news for owners of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v. Thanks to the ingenious work of the devs over at XDA Developer Forums, you can now flash Android 3.1 w/ TouchWiz...
Toshiba AT100 (Thrive) 10.1-inch Honeycomb Tablet available in stores for $560+
We haven't said all that much about the Toshiba Thrive lately, or ever, but that has now changed as we've found out the 10.1-inch Honeycomb Tablet is now on sale at JB Hi-Fi and WOW Sight & Sound for...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 coming to Vodafone soon
We received some information a week or so ago pointing to this fact, but we wanted to confirm it a bit more before posting about it. Well today is the day, today I was sent the lovely little pic...
HTC Sensation and EVO 3D have been temp-rooted, S-OFF being worked on
Here's so good news for current and future HTC Sensation and possibly HTC EVO 3D owners, your device(s) have been "temp-rooted". Yes, this is a general viewing site; no, that wasn't innuendo. "temp-root" is just the term for when...
Skype Video Calling now available on multiple Android devices officially, more unofficially
Update: We've tried Skype Video calling on Android handsets between the various Ausdroid offices in Sydney Melbourne and Perth and it works just fine.. though over 3G, there can be a bit of lag but it's quite usable. Let...
Ausdroid Podcast 009 – Q&A, Future of Android Roundtable and Voltron Extravaganza– 29/06/2011
Note: It does seem as though bandwidth was an issue when recording this podcast. During post production, the number of areas of viewed as samples seemed to be perfect, but the start of the audio recorded during the podcast,...
HTC ChaCha and Salsa ‘Facebook phones’ rumba their way onto Vodafone
Facebook addicts will be able to get their fix a whole lot quicker and more easily courtesy of Vodafone and HTC who today announced the Salsa and the ChaCha, available in stores Wednesday 6 July.
The HTC Salsa has...
Ausdroid Podcast 009 — Q&A and Future of Android Special — Live Stream...
Is it that time again? Please tell me it is? Yes it is, everyone celebrate! It's been two weeks since we last invaded your audio privacy and it's about to go down all over again. This week is a...