Home 2017
Archives
YouTube Red and Google Play Music to merge
Google has so many products and apps that it is hard to keep track of them all. Many of them overlap with each other creating confusion amongst users. Google Play Music and...
Waze officially arrives on Android Auto in stable form
Waze is a community-based traffic and navigation app that was purchased by Google in June of 2013. It is a mapping and navigation solution that offers not just that but also real time...
ICYMI: You can get 6 months free YouTube Red with the new Google Home...
In case you missed it, Google has decided for the launch of Google Home in Australia to include a 6-month YouTube Red subscription as a bonus for new Google Home owners.
For those of...
Android O Developer Preview arrives almost complete – Full release coming soon
Google has this morning released the final preview of Android O - Developer Preview 4 - advising that the official release of Android O is coming soon!
For developers, Google is calling this essentially Release...
Qualcomm Snapdragon 836 to debut in the Google Pixel 2
Last year we saw the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 be upgraded later in the year to a Snapdragon 821. It then first appeared commercially in the Google Pixel phones. A new rumour has...
Level 6 and above Local Guides can now apply for exclusive access to Beta...
Google's Local Guides program recently updated their Local Guide program adding in more levels, more ways to collect points and a big question about what attaining the new levels would grant you?
According to Android...
Google Street view now lets you float in Outer Space, well inside the ISS
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Street View? Have you ever wanted to go into space? My guess is that a statistically high proportion of people reading this would...
Google’s Motion Stills app now coming to Android
Last year Google released an app for iOS to capture and smooth Apple's 'Live Photos', called Motion Stills. At the time and apparently ever since, many Android fans have been asking when it would...
Google Home and Wi-Fi are going on-sale in Australia from July 20, starting at...
As rumoured, Google's Assistant-powered smart speaker Google Home and mesh wifi system Google Wifi will launch in Australia from July 20th.
Google Home will be retailing for $199 from The Google Store, JB Hi-Fi, Harvey...
Google Maps now showing travel time graph to destinations over the day
Google Maps is one of those products that just seems to continually get new features, and typically it just gets better and better. The latest update to hit the Android app for Google Maps...
Have a Chromecast Ultra? Good News then as Google Play Movies adds HDR playback...
While Google still doesn't sell Ultra High Definition (UHD) content through Google Play Movies here in Australia, when it finally does launch it will be great quality with support for HDR playback on 4K...
Google Home can now play your tunes from Play Music without a subscription
If you've one of the many Aussies who don't enjoy Google's (or any larger multinationals) slow international roll outs, you've probably already got yourself a Google Home or two. For example, most of us...
LG Pay to expand to include all new low-price budget LG devices from next...
LG's mobile payment service, LG Pay, which is currently only available in South Korea on the LG G6, is due to expand next year to be included on all new LG budget priced devices...
Renders of the 2017 Pixel XL may have just leaked out
Rumours of the 2017 Google Pixel devices have been swirling around for a little while now, with punts on everything from the specs, component vendors and this year's manufacturing partners doing the rounds. As...
Allo Desktop client could be just weeks away
Allo is one of Google's more divisive announcements, with some of our team able to see its value, while others write it off as half-baked at best. Both views are probably true, with Allo's...