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Did you miss us? We sure missed you, that’s right folks we are back for another year and do we have a big one to start the year. The whole crew is here (except for Irwin who is globe trotting) so we are going to get down and dirty. We …

Ahh Summer, so much sport on and one of the first major sporting events in the calendar year is the Australian Open. The event which began in 1905, is one of the 4 Tennis Grand Slams on the Pro Tennis Tour and is the only one to be held in …

HTC has added the Desire HD — along with new models of the Desire and Wildfire — to its list of devices able to have their bootloaders unlocked using HTC’s offical HTCdev ‘Unlock Bootloader’ tool. If you’re unsure of what the bootloader is, you can safely ignore this article. If …

Sony has unveiled a new member of its Xperia lineup, the Sony Xperia S — that’s right, no more ‘Ericsson’ to be seen. The Xperia S is the Nozomi which we’ve seen leaked around the internet the past and the specs are exactly what we were expecting. 4.3-inch 1280×720 342ppi …

Huawei have announced two new Android smartphones over at CES and unlike most of the announcements taking place there, these devices, the Huawei Ascend P1 and Ascend P1 S, are actually coming to Australia. The release date given to us by Huawei Australia is April 2012 with no partners announced …

Acer quickly showed off a tablet whilst giving a presentation pre-CES 2012 and The Verge later got their hands on it to find out it’s the Acer Iconia Tab A700. The Iconia Tab A700 is pushing the boundaries for tablet specs with a 1.3GHz Quad-Core Tegra 3 CPU, 1920×1080 FHD …

Motorola Mobility have released a teaser video declaring they will be showing off wireless charging at CES 2012. The video — viewable below — is all CGI which shows a generic Motorola wall-socket USB charger crying, as it’s obviously not going to be used any more. Conductive charging isn’t anything …

All the action starts at CES 2012 over in Las Vegas, Nevada from tomorrow (officially starts on the 10th) and although a majority of the technology stays States-side, we’d love to hear from you guy what you’d like to see come out of CES — whether it be Android related …

Xperia Blog have received exclusive photos of the previously never-seen-before Sony Ericsson MT27i codenamed ‘Pepper’. The device is a prototype — as shown by ‘prototype’ etched into the back of it — and could be one of the last devices to launch under the Sony Ericsson moniker along with the …

The Verge have got their hands on photos of Corning’s CES 2012 booth and its showing all the signs of the new Gorilla Glass 2 that’s going to be announced in the next few days. Going by the tagline on the booth which reads “The damage resistance you demand, at …

Something fun to amuse you this weekend, the Android Twitter account tweeted ‘Notice a little something different on http://android.com today?’ So I headed over to take a look, seems they`ve created a game, click on the little Android icon in the lower left and you can then engage a snowman …

It seems that HTC are pushing out updates to most, if not all, of their devices in Australia at the moment — it started with the HTC Incredible S on Optus and now Vodafone have notified us that 4 HTC devices on their network have updates ready and waiting to …

Optus and HTC are today rolling out the Android 2.3.5 update for the HTC Incredible S which bumps Sense UI up to version 3.0 with a few new UI tweaks and performance increases to boot. As always we recommend charging your device up to full (or close to) and downloading …

Sony Ericsson somewhat fumbled their way through 2011 releasing only single-core devices and pushing their exclusivity of the Xperia Play to no end. There was really nothing wrong with any of the 2011 devices — I fell in love with the Arc and Arc S — but they did leave …

If you haven’t yet bought a Samsung Galaxy Nexus because you weren’t satisfied with the limited 16GB of Internal Storage, you won’t have to wait much longer. UK online retailer, Handtec, have posted on their blog announcing a 32GB version of the Galaxy Nexus will go on sale from February …