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Arlo makes some great equipment for home security, it’s high quality, feature-rich and pretty affordable. So when they reached out to us to take a look at the recently released Arlo Essential Indoor Camera, the answer was a...

When Carl Pei left OnePlus, many wondered what he would look to next until he launched "nothing". Now as the launch of their first product nears, Nothing has told us nothing about their Ear 1 earbuds beside the...

For many of us, our connected lives are getting more and more so. We stream media, we have connected devices and often rely on that technology. So the smart screen revolution from a couple of years ago...

It's easy to get caught up in everything being on our phones these days, but the reality is many of us email or message ourselves to get data between PC and phone. It's that exact driver that brought...

At Ausdroid we lobby on behalf of our readers to try and encourage manufacturers to increase the useful lifespan of their digital devices. So it's good to hear that OPPO Australia has increased by 1 year it's recent promise...

If there was ever any doubt that Facebook has a stranglehold on the messaging market, they've hit 5 billion installs on another messaging app. Following -- Facebook-owned -- WhatsApp hitting the marker in January 2020, Messenger has also...

HTC's 2-day Vivecon event is kicking off right now, and the company's come out swinging with two new hardware products. PC VR takes a step forward with Vive Pro 2 offering some major updates over the company's existing Pro VR...

Zega Intelligent Cookware pitches itself to customers as featuring SmartControl technology which takes care of the cooking for you. Featuring a patented, double wall thermal insulated design and SmartControl technology, the cookware heats in minutes and continues to cook safely...

Social media can be a wonderful, entertaining thing, or it can be cesspool of misinformation perpetuated by laziness. Thankfully last year, Twitter started prompting users to read articles before re-tweeting, now Facebook is ready to follow that example. https://twitter.com/fbnewsroom/status/1391816265891778560 The...

Nokia is an old name in phones, having been in the industry since the early 1980s. One of their current offerings is the Nokia 5.4. It comes in two colours - Polar Night (blue) and Dusk (purple). If a phone...

Telstra's 5G home internet was launched late last year to select customers, and this year is set to expand to even more customers, along with doubling the monthly quota from 500 GB to 1 TB. 5G home internet can be...

As a laptop user goes, I'm not exactly all that demanding. Fact is, aside from work, I don't really use a laptop much and my "demands" (such as they are) are pretty basic. I want something that works, that's...

Since the announcement that WhatsApp was changing their privacy policy and sharing more data with Facebook, there's been quite the buzz. This has resulted in a lot of concern about user privacy and a fairly significant exodus of...

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been taking a closer look at the two main contenders in smart home controls: Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. During this time we’ve stopped and reflected on the state of play, had...

As our digital connectivity including the need for instant access to our personal data and storage grows, so has the demand for items like Network Attached Storage (NAS) in our homes. The problem many users face is that...