Oppo F1 – Review
The age of the Chinese Smartphone OEM dominating the market is right around the corner. I don’t mean Chinese manufacturing like many OEM's already do to one degree or another, no I mean the age of a Chinese OEM...
Asus ZenWatch 2 — Review
Asus has released its second Android Wear watch on the market with the ZenWatch 2, available at retail from $296 for the standard leather band edition or $366 for the stunning metal band.
The company hasn't deviated far from the...
Samsung Gear VR (2015) — Review
Samsung's Gear VR has gone through three iterations before reaching a review bench at Ausdroid. The first iteration -- the original Gear VR -- was kind of limited, and only worked with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. An Innovator...
ZTE Blade D/Chat 4G — Review
It used to be the case that the entry-level smartphone market was flooded with inferior products; devices that would never see a software update, that you couldn’t buy any accessories for, and that were generally just unpleasant to use....
ZTE Blade V6 — Review
ZTE Australia has certainly gone from strength to strength, with the company bringing a suite of prepaid devices for two of the major telcos. ZTE has also broadened their scope to include a few unlocked devices, including the Blade...
Oppo R7s — Review
Oppo are huge in China, but they haven't quite reached the same level of huge elsewhere. At least, they haven't caught up with the likes of Samsung, Motorola, Huawei, or HTC just yet. The name doesn’t really excite too...
Nextbit Robin — Review
Nextbit’s Robin is the beginning of a curious new age for Android devices. The company’s first smartphone is a darling of Kickstarter crowdfunding, quickly blowing through its funding goal late last year, and establishing itself as a hot device...
Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge — Review
There’s little doubt that Samsung has been on to a good thing with its Galaxy range of smartphones. For a number of years now the Galaxy S range has been incredibly popular with consumers and reviewers alike, starting with...
Review – HP Chromebook 11 (2201TU)
From time to time at Ausdroid we get the opportunity to review devices that complement Android or the larger Google ecosystem. Amongst these devices Chromebooks are a hot favourite for many of the Ausdroid writers. At this point I...
Google Chromecast 2 — Review
Google's Chromecast is one of the biggest releases they've had in the past few years, since Google announced the original back in 2014 they've sold over 20 million of them. But the original model had some flaws and alongside...
Sony Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact & Xperia Z5 Premium — Review
Rewind to the end of 2014 and the start of 2015, and Sony's Xperia Z3 found much favour with us at Ausdroid. The standard "full size" unit was a firm favourite with Chris, and the Z3 Compact found itself...
Blackberry Priv — Review
BlackBerry a name that was synonymous with the corporate world with its handheld mobile devices. Over the last couple of years -- thanks in part to Android and iOS along with what many would say were bad management decisions...
Asus Chromebit — Review
Chrome OS has been put onto many form factors since it was first introduced, laptops (Chromebooks), desktops (Chromeboxes and Chromebases) and now they’re invading the new stick computing trend that Intel first introduced, with the Asus Chromebit.
Since Google and...
Chromecast Audio is coming to Australia, and here’s why its cool
Google's Chromecast Audio isn't exactly a new product anymore; it's been on shelves in the US for a few months, following its announcement last September at Google's Nexus event in San Francisco. We were fortunate enough to pick up...
Review — Xiaomi Mi Note Pro
In the Australian market, we can be a little blinded to the larger worldwide Android manufacturer ecosystem, especially when said devices live outside the Googleverse. Case in point, Xiaomi is one of the world's largest manufacturers of Android phones,...