News and Editorial

As a company, OnePlus have brand recognition amongst phone fans that’s hard to emulate from some of even the biggest brands in the market. Their devices are coveted, even if they’re not easily accessible here in Australia. It’s the...

After writing about Optus' new Home Broadband plans last night, I have kept my word and been into Optus today (Hi, Optus Hornsby staff!) and signed up for a new Optus Home Broadband 500GB plan. After an initial bit...

Last year OPPO demonstrated how far they have come taking out the Canstar Blue award for “Most Satisfied Customers – Smartphones”. This year, building upon that success they have won it again with near top marks in all...

The first punched-hole display smartphones have been announced and it looks to be the trend for 2019 with Samsung looking to continue to notch solution into their Galaxy S10 series of phones. We have seen rumours and CAD leaks demonstrating...

It's been some time since the Android Mini Christmas ornaments were on-sale through Dead Zebra, but they're returning this year with sales set to start at 3am AEST tomorrow morning (13th December). The Android Mini Christmas ornaments have so...

With the latest Transformers movie, Bumblebee arriving in cinemas this week, the obvious toy merchandise has arrived in-store. The neatest one to catch our eye is the 'Transformers: Bumblebee -- Bee Vision Bumblebee AR Experience'. The kit appears to...

It's been a long time coming, but it's finally happening. HMD Global has announced the availability of the Nokia 8 Android Pie beta. Announced by head of product for HMD Global, Juho Sarvikas, on Twitter. The delayed update to...

Instagram has announced a new feature for users, allowing short voice messages to be sent to your contacts in Direct Messages. The update was announced by Instagram on their social media channels, including competing platform Twitter: https://twitter.com/instagram/status/1072206200077398016 The voice message feature lets...

Partnering with a high-end sports car company seems to be the new thing for manufacturers, Huawei have partnered with Porsche for some time, while OPPO went with Lamborghini for their Find X launch, now OnePlus has chosen luxury sports...

Some of you following my personal saga will remember I'm in a NBN black hole; a brand-new apartment building, built by a developer that forgot to register the development with NBNCo. This means there'll be no NBN here for...

After a major update which rolled out earlier this year, Google Fit is getting new features to help you get through the notoriously unhealthy Christmas season. The update consists of two major features, faster access to your fitness data through...

Only two months after disclosing a potential data leak which forced them to announce the impending closure of their social network, Google has announced a second potential data leak which has forced their hand into bringing the closure date...

Earlier today we reported on Samsung officially announcing their first Infinity-O display phone- the A8s. Just hours before in Hong Kong Huawei's sub-company Honor unofficially announcing a phone with a similar display, making it the "world's first in-screen...

There are a vast number of messaging apps available to the user but our favourite here at Ausdroid is Telegram. Today the folks have updated Telegram to v5.0 bringing a heap of new changes to the platform. The new...

We have seen quite a few leaks of Samsung's notch solutions in previous weeks and the first phone said to be sporting them was the Galaxy A8. Overnight in China Samsung introduced the world to the Galaxy A8s...