Phil Tann 8 July 2018 News and Editorial, Smart Home and Wearables
Fancy a hot price on some Google gear? JB Hi-Fi have you covered with some great prices on Google’s connected home gear. The Home Mini, a perfect way to get into the connected world without breaking the bank is down to $49, from $79 RRP. The regular Google Home will …
Read More » Daniel Tyson 22 November 2017 Smart Accessories
It looks like the spectre of Amazon launching this week has at least one retailer starting their ‘Black Friday’ specials early, with Harvey Norman offering great deals on Google Home, Home Mini and Chromecast until the 28th of November. There are deals on Google Home itself, which has been reduced …
Read More » Alex Dennis 13 July 2017 Apps, Games & Google Services, News and Editorial
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 resolution movies in Google Play Movies now available. Since launching the Chromecast Ultra, UHD content hasn’t …
Read More » Alex Dennis 22 June 2017 Smart Accessories, Smart Home and Wearables
JB Hi-Fi has taken $10 off the price of the Chromecast Ultra with 4K playback, dropping the price from $99 to just $89. The Chromecast Ultra was one of the most hotly announced streaming devices when it was announced late last year, with most of the Ausdroid team snapping one …
Read More » Phil Tann 5 May 2017 News and Editorial
Aldi have a specail running on the 13th of May for a 58″ 4K Ultra High Definition LED LCD TV including a bonus Google Chromecast Ultra for only $799. It’s a pretty decent spec TV with 4K resolution, low power use (given the size of the screen) HDMI input, USB …
Read More » Chris Rowland 24 November 2016 Around the Home, Smart Accessories
After a number of leaks confirming the Chromecast Ultra was on its way to Australia, and confirmed pricing from Officeworks and JB HiFi, we can now (finally) confirm ourselves that the Chromecast Ultra is indeed now on sale in Australia, for just $99. By the time you read this, you should …
Read More » Chris Rowland 22 November 2016 Around the Home
With growing evidence that Google will launch the Chromecast Ultra in Australia sometime in the next week or two, we’re seeing an update today to Google’s Cast API which enables the key feature of the Chromecast Ultra: 4K casting. There’s another cool feature too, which means — put simply — …
Read More » Chris Rowland 21 November 2016 Around the Home
According to our sources within JB HiFi, the Chromecast Ultra from Google is also coming to the big yellow store. This confirmation comes after the Chromecast Ultra was spotted in Officeworks’ internal systems last week, and tells us that an Australian release can’t be far away. Noted in JB’s internal …
Read More » Alex Dennis 18 November 2016 News and Editorial, Smart Accessories
It would seem that you will be able to get a Chromecast Ultra 4K streaming device for Christmas, with named sources advising us here at Ausdroid that Officeworks stores are beginning to get stock but no ETA was given for when you will be actually able to get one in …
Read More » Alex Dennis 5 October 2016 Around the Home, Assistant and Artificial Intelligence, Mobiles, News and Editorial, Smart Accessories
So its certainly has been a busy time overnight for the team here at Ausdroid with everything that Google has announced overnight at its #MadeByGoogle event. There certainly has been a lot announced, so we thought we should create a small list of what was exactly announced so you’re right …
Read More » Scott Plowman 5 October 2016 Smart Accessories
It was not a very well-kept secret that Google would announce a new version of the Chromecast at todays MadebyGoogle event in San Francisco. A week ago we posted some renders and pricing of a Chromecast that was supposed to support 4K TV. As expected Google announced the Chromecast Ultra …
Read More » Daniel Tyson 27 September 2016 Around the Home
Google’s October 4th event (October 5th here in Australia) is shaping up to be quite a big deal. Not only phones are expected, but an entire suite of products as well, including a new 4K compatible Chromecast Ultra. This morning Evan Blass has come through yet again with renders of …
Read More » Duncan Jaffrey 25 September 2016 News and Editorial, Smart Accessories
The Chromecast has been one of Google’s runaway success stories. With millions of the little dongles sold, and untold hours of music and video streamed to the devices, it’s safe to proclaim the Chromecast a complete success. Today there are rumours circulating that Google is either considering abandoning the Chrome …
Read More » Duncan Jaffrey 24 September 2016 News and Editorial, Smart Accessories
With Google’s massive hardware event just 11 days away, and counting, the hardware rumours are just going to increase. Today’s is a good one. Whilst there has been all manner of hardware leaked for release at the event it’s nice to hear fresh rumours about those devices to increase our …
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