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Samsung looks to be moving forward with the release of the anticipated Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia. It was picked up by a Phandroid.com tipster in a yet to be released Myer catalogue that the flagship Tablet will be making its way on to store shelves by September 1st, which …

It wasn’t that long ago that we reported on CyanogenMod devs being sent a few of Samsung‘s golden children, in the form of Galaxy S IIs, the goal was to develop for this amazing handset. It seems to have paid off: Steve Kondik, the main man behind CyanogenMod, has just …

Update: The form is now working 🙂 If you’ve read Buzz’ latest post, you’ll know that he’s taking a bit of a break from Ausdroid to focus on his studies, and we wish him the best of luck. However, this leaves the rest of the team with an issue – we …

The last time I reviewed an LG device, it really didn’t blow me away, in fact I couldn’t wait to get back to my everyday device. The LG Optimus 3D is a little bit of a different story. It was a breath of fresh air, still the same air mind …

All too often we see companies releasing dedicated iPhone apps and neglecting their android customers. Today Bankwest released an android app to allow their customers using android phones to access their accounts on the go, locate the nearest ATM and a use savings calculator. Bankwest join NAB, Commbank, St George, …

Ever since March 11th when I first started working on Ausdroid and March 20th when the first post went up, I’ve spent a lot of time writing, reading, organising, talking and procrastinating, lots of procrastinating. So after having had discussion with the rest of the team (Chris, Lucas & Matt) …

If you’re the owner of the Motorola manufactured Milestone 2 and you purchased it from Vodafone, you’ll be pleased to know there’s a software update waiting for you. You can update by using either Blur Over The Air — which is just FOTA — or you can hook your Milestone …

It seems every man and his dog is making a basic Android tablet these days, Acer being no exception to this rule. A couple of months ago they launched the Acer Iconia Tab A500 here in Australia which — like every other Android tablet — has 10-inch, dual-core Tegra 2 …

Whether you like them or not, Motorola Mobility — the mobile division of Motorola — will soon be completely owned by Google after agreeing to a sale price of 12.5 billion USD. That’s a premium of 63% over the normal share price, meaning that each share was sold for $40 …

Welcome to the Ausdroid Podcast Episode 12, recorded on Wednesday 10th August. Buzz, Lucas, Irwin and Matt are back for a quick round up of the weeks news. Apple v Samsung make the headlines again, as well as Samsung brushing the 10.1v aside and we all give you an app …

The Dell Streak may have been the first 5-inch phone-tablet-type-of-thing to launch here in Australia on Optus, but now its time has come and gone with Dell announcing today in the US of A that it will no longer be produced and sold to the masses. The removal of the …

Ladies and Gentlemen, it appears that Android Police and RootzWiki have snared themselves leaked screenshots of Android’s upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich release, which is to be version 4.0. If you want to see two more pics hit up both of those links above. There’s really not much to say about …

If there’s anything that needs to be improved in mobile devices, it’s the audio quality from their loudspeakers and via any headphones that come in the box. HTC is hoping to put an end to crappy audio quality by announcing today that they’re teaming up with Beats™ to bring better …

Yes that’s right, we are back and ready to rock again. It’s only going to be a short episode tonight, mainly to get us back on track after the long break. We will run for about an hour tonight and hit the best of the weeks topic, if not all …

It appears that HTC’s new developer site, HTCdev, is already providing us with some cool info. Under the Tablet Pen API examples are two screenshots from a Honeycomb device that has a hint of Sense UI mixed in for good measure — as you can see above and after the …