NewPipe, a YouTube Downloading App
A criticism of the YouTube app on Android has long been the inability to watch videos offline, or to download videos. Some of us do not want to have to use precious mobile data each and every time...
Google’s new Android ad uses a grand piano to show how boring life could...
If you're a twitter user, you'll have noticed that Google's @android account went a little 'C' crazy in the last couple of hours, but it's all in aid of promoting their latest commercial for Android. The ad shows a...
ZTE adds 2 new mobile devices to its website – the Blade D and...
ZTE have added to new mobile devices to their line of available handsets in Australia, with the Blade D and the Chat 4G both headed to Optus and Coles Pre-Paid Mobile respectively.
Both the Blade D and Chat 4G actually...
Huawei’s CEO drops hints on Weibo (and Huawei on Twitter) ahead of MWC 2016
Huawei have already had a big showing this year, with a raft of announcements coming out of CES 2016 in January. With this in mind, we didn't expect an awful lot from Huawei at MWC 2016, but given that...
LG to unveil two further phones at MWC 2016, from the ‘X Series’
LG has today announced that it will unveil not one, but at least three phones at its press conference in Barcelona next week, with the announcement of the new X Series. Two new phones from this X Series include...
Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge renders show phones in Gold, Black and Silver...
At just over a week out, Mobile World Congress is fast approaching and that means we'll soon be getting the official unveiling of Samsung's latest high-end phone series the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. Evan Blass is, as...
Telegram update brings a host of enhancements
Telegram made something of a splash when it landed in the third party messaging space with its fast interface, cross platform options and their integration options via either web hooks or API. The user base for third party...
Qualcomm announces three new SoC’s and a super fast LTE Modem
This week Qualcomm unveiled a new generation of low and mid-range System on Chips in their Snapdragon range as well as a new super-fast gigabit LTE modem.
The Snapdragon 435 and 625 are their new Octa-Core SoC's while the...
Android Wear 6.0 update rolling out to Moto 360 Gen 1; Huawei Watch update...
Google recently announced the broader update to Android 6.0 would begin rolling out to Android Wear devices, activating the speaker for compatible hardware, bringing more gesture support, improved messaging support and Marshmallow features such as Doze. The update has...
Telstra’s free data Sunday – What you need to know
On Tuesday, Telstra suffered a highly publicised and (thanks to the wonder of social media) criticised outage. The outage was confirmed as nationwide and effecting both voice calls and data availability.
As a result of the outage, and as an...
My Maps gets a Material Design update and becomes much better
My Maps is pretty cool, allowing users to label and make notes on top of Google Maps. As you can see above, we've been using this to create a custom map for our trip to Mobile World Congress next...
Google Clock app gets an update to allow you to resize its widgets properly
Look, if you thought this morning's update about Google's Text to Speech service was mundane, you might find this equally dull. Google's Clock app is surprisingly popular, and probably one of the most popular Android widgets as well, allowing...
Google announce their plans for Picasa
Before there was Google Photos, there was Picasa and if you don't know what it is or have never used it, now would not be the time give it a go. Google has announced that as of May 1st...
Google’s Text to Speech service version 3.8 adds male and female voices to each...
Google's Text to Speech service isn't something that makes news headlines much; it's just kind of there as part of Android and it works. However, today, an exception is made -- Google's Text to Speech has received an update...
HTC watch could launch in April; One M10 coming in May
HTC's usual phone launch at Mobile World Congress doesn't appear to be happening, but according to Evan Blass, the man behind the @evleaks twitter account we 'll see the phone in May.
According to Evan, the HTC One M10...