For those not familiar with all of LG’s offerings, they actually make a lot more products than just phones and TVs. LG is a major domestic appliance maker as well and with their ThinQ line, they have been slowly bringing ‘smarts’ to their appliance line. LG has announced today that …
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Tour de Cure and Sony Foundation have today announced the largest Virtual Reality (VR) cancer research grant in Australia to three local research teams, with the aim of the research to help better understanding of rare and youth cancers, but also to hopefully ultimately find a cure also. The three …
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The state of WearOS is very much up in the air, we’ve quite openly stated that it’s hard to recommend WearOS and that something special needs to happen and in a big way to really integrate it to the Android ecosystem in the same way that the Apple watch works …
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Unpacked finally arrived and aside the much vaunted Galaxy S10 line Samsung have introduced three new wearables, all of them expected thanks to so many rumours and leaks. The three new wearables are the Galaxy Watch Active, the Galaxy Fit and the Galaxy Buds. Samsung’s new wearables are all about …
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With Samsung’s Galaxy event to kick off early tomorrow morning out time, there have been plenty of rumours and leaks about the upcoming high-end smartphones from the company. We have one more bit of tidbit news (and it really is minimal) to share thanks to our friend Evan Blass. Evan’s …
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Telstra has announced and launched its third generation streaming device, the Telstra TV, along with localised voice control along with no more lock-in Home Broadband plans for Telstra customers. The third generation of Telstra TV is sleeker, smaller, and includes a new and improved wireless remote control with voice search, …
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With Samsung’s Unpacked around the corner, you might mistake Ausdroid for Samdroid or Aussung, with the volume of Samsung news that just keeps appearing every day. Fortunately, it’s almost over, and we’ve got some high-res renders of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Watch Active and Samsung Galaxy Buds for your delectation. …
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With multiple wearable and phone leaks leading up to Samsung’s Unpacked event next week, we thought we were done. However, today’s leak comes from Samsung itself. Thanks to an update to the Samsung Galaxy Wearable app yesterday we’ve got our first official glimpse and confirmation of what’s in the 2019 line …
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Several months ago George Yianni (Founder and Head of Technology at Philips Hue) promised at the IFA 2018 electronics industry conference “no more power cuts waking you up at night” due to all your Hue lights turning on at max brightness when power was restored. Hue promised that all their …
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Late last year Samsung and RACV announced that Smasung SmartThings would be available to those living in the world’s most liveable city (2011-2017, 2nd 2018), Melbourne. Today they have announced, after experiencing strong demand and positive feedback from the Melbourne launch, the availability of SmartThings to the rest of the …
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Everyone loves a bargain, and today we’ve got four NBN providers offering incentives to sign up to their broadband offerings. Not all NBN plans are created equal – just because four providers will sell you NBN 100 plans doesn’t mean they’ll all offer the same speed, and it doesn’t mean …
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Just over a week ago Google Support revealed a new feature for Google Assistant on Google Home devices and Smart Displays and it was tested out right here at Ausdroid. Today Google have officially announced interpreter mode via their blog. To get your Google Assistant on one of these devices …
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This morning D-Link ANZ has announced the local launch of the Omna Wire-Free Indoor Surveillance Kit. Rivaling some established players in the wireless home surveillance segment, D-Link’s Omna offers greater battery life, options to record locally or to the cloud, and a free 12-month subscription to the cloud recording service …
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In the digital age, storage has become something of vital importance. However, it can’t just be any storage, it needs to be fast, reliable, redundant and always accessible storage. Cloud storage can be great, it’s often free (in limited quantities), it’s convenient, it’s accessible anywhere and it’s normally easy to …
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Google and its WearOS platform is in a bit of limbo at the moment. The much vaunted saviour of WearOS, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100, is having a very slow roll out and by all reports it is far from the saviour that WearOS requires. In the meantime smartwatch …
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