This year Samsung released their Galaxy Buds alongside the Galaxy S10 but it looks like for their successor they will be released separately as a stand alone product — and the new product will be a big improvement. When we tested the Galaxy Buds at MWC we liked the fit …
Read More »Asus Republic of Gamers launch the ROG Phone II into Australia
Gaming phones have become a thing in the last couple of years, as people begin to use their mobile devices more and more and consoles/PCs less and less. Asus Republic of Gamers (Asus’ gaming arm) were one of the first companies to release a gaming phone which did not make …
Read More »VLC update brings a more polished interface to users
VLC is one of the most popular media players going, it’s highly functional and cross platform so what’s not to like? Very little is the honest answer and with the update rolling out it’s even better. The VLC Developer blog outlines a lot of changes across platforms including Android TV …
Read More »Larry Page and Sergey Brin step aside as CEO and President of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai named CEO of Alphabet and Google
In an altogether unsurprising announcement today Larry Page and Sergey Brin penned a letter in which they have officially stepped aside as the CEO and President of Alphabet. The current CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai was named as their successor making the once head of Chrome OS in charge of …
Read More »Google Photos introduces individual photo sharing and comments
One of the many great features of Google Photos is the ability to create and share albums with family and friends. However if you just wanted to share a single photo you still have to create an album then share that with your intended recipients. Today Google has announced a …
Read More »Echo Studio Australian Review – Finally a Great Sounding Alexa Speaker
The launch of the new Echo Studio speaker by Amazon gives Australians a strong new contender to compare and contrast with other in home mains powered smart speaker options such as Sonos, Google, Bose etc. Until recently Australians who wanted to listen to an Alexa powered speaker that sounded good …
Read More »Google announces the best of list for the Play Store for 2019
If you planned on voting in the Play Store’s best of survey it’s too late because today Google have unveiled the results of the survey announcing the big winners. The results have been broken down into various categories and often give us a way to find some top notch apps. …
Read More »December update for Pixel 3 and 3a devices is causing the Pixel Launcher to crash
Yesterday Google released the latest security update for its Pixel devices and it seems that is has not been without issue. There have been many reports of the update causing the Pixel Launcher to continuously crash when using Android 10’s new gesture navigation. The December update brought the Android 10 …
Read More »Fetch Mighty Should Get Amazon Prime Video by April 2020
Owners of the Fetch Mighty and Fetch Mini have been hearing rumours for a while of some channels being lost from their Fetch subscription soon and some apps added. Sensing this frustration the Fetch social media team just released the following information on their Facebook page: Ten All Access app …
Read More »ALDI has a range of smartphone accessories from Saturday 7th December 2019
ALDI special buys are generally hit and miss but sometimes a bargain is just that, a good bargain. ALDI have dropped their upcoming specials for this Saturday and it seems they have some tech electronic smartphone goodies that may help fill some Christmas wish lists and stockings. The deals include: …
Read More »Monthly security update for December 2019 rolling out now
The final security update of 2019 has started rolling out to Pixel phones today. The update included the usual security patches along with various bug fixes. The phones who have started receiving the update are the original Pixel and Pixel XL, the Pixel 2 and 2 XL, the Pixel 3 …
Read More »Facebook announces data portability tool – move your Facebook photos to Google Photos
Often when we report on Facebook it’s following their latest scandal, so it’s refreshing to be able to talk about something that appears to be 100% positive. Facebook has today announced the release of the first data portability tool that will enable users to transfer/ back up their Facebook photos …
Read More »LIFX is looking to brighten up Cyber Monday
LIFX is looking to brighten up Cyber Monday deals, following their Black Friday deals which are still available. The deals, which are pretty good and vary in savings include: LIFX Cyber Monday bundle at $160 which include 2 mini colour bulbs and 1 Z light strip kit for $160 – …
Read More »Australian Review: Diesel On Axial smartwatch, a brutal design worthy of your money
We have been waiting for a magic bullet to fix all of our Wear OS complaints ever since it was released. Fossil, increasingly associated with the future of the platform it seems, has done an admirable job with their Gen-5 smartwatches — who would have thought that all it required …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 gets an update but not to Android 10
I use my tablet quite a lot, in fact I spend a bit of time on it most days. So I was pretty happy when I saw that there was a software update available for my Tab S4. Sadly it quickly came to light that it wasn’t the hoped update …
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