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We’re in the age of the superphone now, and that means super pricing. While we’ve seen phones move from around $1000 into the mid-$1000’s and above in the last couple of years, it still makes us wince. Today it’s Samsung’s turn to hit us right in the credit card, with …

Motorola’s new One Vision phone is now available in Australia, launching exclusively with JB Hi-fi at a very wallet-friendly price of $499. For your hard-earned, you’ll get a Samsung Exynos 9609 processor with 4GB RAM, 128GB storage and support for up to 512GB expansion via MicroSD. It’s all powered by …

One of the most useful features in Google’s AdSense platform – besides allowing publishers like Ausdroid to earn an income – are the mobile apps that allow you to keep an eye on how your revenue is performing. In great news today, Google has (for some inexplicable reason) decided to …

One of the great thing about major online retailers having a sale (*ahem* Amazon Prime Day and the eBay sales) is that there are a few bricks and mortar retailers who’ll price match. There’s also some who don’t want to beat competitors prices, but just match them, and so they …

The team at Twitter has rolled out a refreshed and updated website that should be faster, easier to navigate and more personalised for end users. The updated look should make it easier to access favourite features, with more options to make your Twitter.com your own. Woah, what’s this? A shiny …

Many lovers of PC games and Android TV having been wanting to stream their local PC games to their big screens, and for NVIDIA shield users with GTX or RTX graphics cards or Steam Link users that’s been possible for a while. Now Radeon gamers can join the first-party streaming …

In years gone past Qualcomm have introduced slightly upgraded processors in the second half of the year — usually when there is something worthwhile upgrading on them. These processors fit well with the phones releasing in the later half of the year who want that edge over those from earlier …

A new Android TV device has appeared in the US overnight. Air TV Mini promises to occupy a HDMI input on your TV but no bench space, with a small dongle device that’ll hang out the back, and has some interesting ideas about live TV. Your USD$80 gets you a …

The Huawei watch is on. Good news for Huawei is that’s not going to be a death watch. After President Trump signalled a change in policy recently, we have all been waiting for when the change would actually happen — it seems that could come within the next two weeks. …

With less than a month until Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 is revealed to the world, you’d imagine – quite rightly – that Samsung has already begun production in earnest. However, a new report has indicated that a trade dispute between Japan and South Korea has disrupted production, which could cause …

For the next month, customers buying a Huawei P30 or Huawei P30 Pro through Telstra or Vodafone can get a free Huawei Watch GT as well, valued at $399. Huawei’s P30 series has been remarkably successful for the Chinese manufacturer, with more than 100 million units shipped worldwide. Larking Huang, …

It’s 2019, and by now, everyone’s at least aware of the concept of protecting their digital identity online. Websites get hacked, passwords and logins get stolen, and before you know it, all manner of damage can be done. While you can’t necessarily control what websites do with your data, you …

It might be a big sales day for that other online retailer, but eBay wants to keep your attention and is offering some great deals for Plus members. The headline deal is Apple AirPods for $99 – a $150 saving off the retail price. We might not much care for …

With talk of Huawei’s developer conference this past week, the obvious attention has been to what Huawei’s own smartphone operating system might look like. With sessions already marked out to discuss Hongmeng OS, speculation is running away. However, despite the Chinese tech giant registering the name Hongmeng trademarks worldwide, there’s …