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Retailer Round-up: In-store Weekly Specials
Well the silly season is officially over, and retailers are now gearing themselves back up once again for the back to school (and work) specials, so here is whats on offer this week from...
CES 2014 — Huawei announce the Ascend Mate 2 4G
The Huawei Ascend Mate was a pretty massive phone that was announced a full year ago at CES 2013, but only introduced to Australia in June and now Huawei has announced the successor the...
Retailer Round-Up: In-store Weekly Specials
With only 13 days left till the jolly big fat man in the red suit makes his way around to all the good boys and girls, retailers are ramping up their last minute gift...
Ausdroid Podcast 96 – The 1.1 percenters
Welcome to the 96th episode of the Ausdroid podcast!
This week Jason and Dan were joined by Reckoner's Peter Wells to discuss the week's Android news.
Topics:
Nexus 5 and Android's looming Camera API changes
Android by the...
Huawei threatens to exit the US market amid spying accusations
Huawei, the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world - passing Ericsson in 2012 - has threatened to pull out of the US market amid what they say are unsubstantiated claims of spying for...
Huawei Ascend Y210 hits Optus Pre-Paid at $79
It seems Australian carriers are gearing up for the Christmas period with various offerings. The latest comes from Optus, offering the Huawei Ascend Y210 Android powered smartphone for $79 on pre-paid.
As you might expect,...
Huawei Ascend P6 to get KitKat in January in China
Huawei has announced on their EmotionUI web page that the Chinese domestic version of the Ascend P6 will be updated from Android 4.2 Jellybean straight to Android 4.4 KitKat in January. At this stage...
Huawei offering insights into the future of the ‘Connected Home’ through demonstrations at Bondi...
Huawei is running an interesting demonstration these school holidays centres around the concept of the 'Connected Home'. Huawei have set up their experience stand at the Westfield shopping centre in Bondi Junction in Sydney...
Coles selling the Samsung Galaxy Y & Huawei Ascend Y201
In the latest Coles catalogue starting this Wednesday 11 September for one week, Coles is offering the Samsung Galaxy Y for $59 plus 750 FlyBuys points and the Huawei Ascend Y201 for $39 plus...
Ausdroid Podcast 82 – August 13, 2013
Welcome to the 82nd episode of the Ausdroid podcast!
This week Jason was joined by Phil and Dan.
We spent a little while going over the unfolding ispONE situation which looks like it could affect many...
Huawei Ascend P6 — Review
The Huawei Ascend P6 looks the goods, but Ausdroid takes a look to see whether it delivers.
When Huawei announced the Ascend P6 back in June, it didn't exactly jump off the page at us....
Report: More $200 smartphone will be sold in 2018 than was in 2012
A report compiled by ABI research, as part of a report into the Mobile Handset Go-to-market Strategies and the Next Generation Mobile Devices forecasts that low cost smartphone shipments to grow from 238 million...
Huawei calls out ABC over missing iview app for Android
As Android users we all celebrated the recent movements from the ABC in introducing video streaming into their ABC app for Android, and then a further update which saw them announce an Android App...
Small Android tablets gain whilst Apple’s buzz fades
Whilst Apple may have captured the early buzz with the tablet market when they introduced the original iPad, it seems their share of the tablet market has begun to fade according to research released...
Dick Smith Selling the Huawei Ascend G526 4G ready phone on the Vodafone Network
Its seems the 4G competition is heating up with the networks for pre-paid devices, especially since Vodafone only turned on their 4G network earlier this month.
In their latest catalogue, it appears that Dick Smith...