Samsung Galaxy S20 5G (and Galaxy S20+) — Australian COVID-19 Lockdown Review
I'm going to say this at the outset, loud and clear - reviewing a phone during the lockdown following a viral pandemic is an interesting exercise; it's hard to do really exciting photo samples when you can't really leave...
BrailleNote Touch 32 Plus Review — $7495.00 Android tablet that’s worth every cent
Let’s hit the obvious as a starting point, the price is not a typo - this is a $7495.00 Android tablet but it is something pretty special. While it is for a relatively small target audience, what it offers...
Huawei P40 Pro — Our first look at Android life without Google
Depending on who you talk to, the Huawei P40 Pro is either one of the more anticipated phones of the year, has the biggest questions being asked about it or both.
Today we’ll address the elephant in the room and...
Review: realme C3, just how good can a $269 phone be?
Realme are an offshoot of OPPO -- once an OPPO sub-brand -- and their success the world over has shown that their recipe of providing decent specs in a phone with extremely attractive pricing works. Their specs are...
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra: surely that huge camera bump is worth it?
The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra has some amazing camera specs -- so much so that you would expect it to be far and away better than every other smartphone camera out there. After a few weeks with the Galaxy...
Socially Isolated Review: UE Hyperboom Party Speaker
In early March 2020 UE's new huge Hyperboom portable bluetooth party speaker capable of 3x the loudness and more than 6x the bass of UE Megaboom 3 started being sold in Australia.
Unfortunately for UE their timing couldn't have been...
Improve work from home meeting call quality with Plantronics’ Poly Voyager 5200 Bluetooth headset
Hearing "{person name} has joined the conference" has become a familiar sound for everyone in many homes around Australia during the last week as people working from home have switched to using Microsoft Teams, WebEx, Zoom etc for team/customer...
Samsung S20 Ultra: software can make or break a phone
Those of you who have been here for a while will remember my aversion to all things Samsung software. This is back from the Galaxy S6 days though and in the five years since that phone was released...
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra: Battery life and charging solutions
Samsung has a chequered past when it comes to the charging of their devices and we do not need to remind you of them. For this reason they can be excused for being more conservative than anyone else...
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra: that fingerprint sensor
The Samsung Galaxy S10 fingerprint sensor was lambasted for its inaccuracies and inconsistencies. Early reports had the Galaxy S20 Qualcomm-made ultrasonic fingerprint sensors pegged with the same issues.
In our use with not just the Ultra but...
Do you need a smart towel? Probably not, but it’s an interesting idea
One of the interesting gimmicks that showed up in my inbox earlier this year was a Mizu Smart Towel. It promised that it was a bacteria fighting super towel, made with naturally self-cleaning silver fibers that would change colour...
Review: Amazon Echo Show 8, Amazon’s best smart display so far
No matter which flavour of digital assistant you prefer you have to admit that Amazon were not just first to the party but set the bar extremely high with their smart displays. Since then others have come at them...
Edifier TWS NB ear buds review — Great sound, ANC and affordable
"True Wireless" Earbuds are a very mainstream device these days thanks to the trend started by Apple with their Airpods. There are some design decisions and changes that can be made; do you go with the droplet style similar...
Hands-on: Samsung Galaxy S20, the small phone that isn’t small on features
It's not the phone in the series that gets all - if not much - of the attention, but Samsung's entry-level Galaxy S20 phone offers virtually all the features of its larger, more expensive S20+ cousin, in a smaller,...
The Pixel 4 XL review, four months on: has it improved?
The Pixel 4 was received with mixed reception when it launched back in October of last year. I used the Ausdroid review unit for the first month but ran into a few roadblocks with it. Now they have been...