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 …
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Australian Open 2012 Android App now available
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 …
Read More »HTCdev ‘Unlock Bootloader’ tool now unlocks Desire HD, additional Desire and Wildfire models
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 …
Read More »Sony unveil the Xperia S, minus the ‘Ericsson’ — 720p Reality Display, 1.5GHz Dual-Core CPU, 12MP Camera
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 …
Read More »Huawei announce the Ascend P1 S, the world’s slimmest smartphone at 6.68mm — coming to Australia in April
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 …
Read More »Acer tease Iconia Tab A700 at CES 2012 — 1.3GHz Quad-Core, 1080p Display, Android 4.0 (video)
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 …
Read More »Motorola Mobility tease wireless charging, will be announced at CES 2012
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 …
Read More »What are you hoping to see at CES 2012?
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 …
Read More »Sony Ericsson MT27i ‘Pepper’ prototype gets snapped in the wild
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 …
Read More »Corning Gorilla Glass 2 will be thinner, stronger according to their CES 2012 booth
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 …
Read More »Snowball fun added to android.com
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 …
Read More »HTC Salsa, ChaCha, Desire HD, Sensation from Vodafone all get updated
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 …
Read More »Android 2.3.5 update for HTC Incredible S from Optus rolling out now
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 …
Read More »Nozomi and LT28at could be the phones that make Sony (Ericsson) relevant at the high-end again
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 …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy Nexus with 32GB of Internal Storage to go on sale at the start of Feb, says UK retailer
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 …
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