A new wrinkle in the latest chapter of the Apple v. Samsung saga has appeared. After the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was initially blocked in Australia pending further litigation, Samsung has announced that a media event coinciding with the launch of the tablet scheduled for August 11th has been postponed. It should be [...]
Here’s a quick round up of what happened in the Android world in case you missed something. You guys have a good day and we shall be back within a couple of hours!  Logitech Revue price drop in effect, get yours for .99 Samsung concedes to Appleí˘Â€Â™s attacks, halts Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales in Australia [...]
Here’s a quick round up of what happened in the Android world in case you missed something. You guys have a good day and we shall be back within a couple of hours!  Logitech Revue price drop in effect, get yours for .99 Samsung concedes to Appleí˘Â€Â™s attacks, halts Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales in Australia [...]
After initially agreeing to halt sales of their Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, Samsung has released a statement saying, in essence, the show will go on. “The Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the Australian Market will be released in the near future,” says the statement, adding that the version of the tablet planned for sale in [...]
Apple has little battles being fought on multiple fronts around the world as it seeks to stop what it feels are copycat products that are looking to take the easy route by copying its products like the iPhone and iPad. One of the fronts that Apple is fighting Samsung on is in Australia. Apple has [...]
The HTC Sensation — one of our favorite Android smartphones of the year so far — is headed to Australia by way of the Telstra network. Same 4.3-inch qHD screen, Android 2.3, Sense 3.0 and that dual-core processor. It also sports the TelstraOne app, which brings news, sports and weather feeds direct to the home screen. Telstra [...]
If anyone happens to remember October of last year, a new streaming video app appeared in the Android Market called Crackle. It was a subscription based service which offered some video for free but the premium videos were to cost you .99/month. It ended up being there for quite some time and then it all [...]
Bad news if you were holding out for an 8-megapixel Galaxy Tab 10.1v in the UK, with Vodafone UK deciding to switch their attentions from the original Samsung slate – announced as an exclusive to the carrier back at its debut in February – to the updated, slimmer version that followed on in March. Vodafone [...]
Dropbox and Sony Ericsson have reached a partnership that will pre-install the cloud service on several upcoming Android devices. Devices labeled as “Dropbox-powered phones” will be sold in Denmark, the UK, Sweden, Australia and Italy. We’re assuming this just means that Dropbox comes pre-installed with the devices and nothing more. And don’t worry, Dropbox will [...]
Got to give it to our friends down in Australia to come up with an unusual fad called Planking. If you don’t know what that is, Planking is the action of lying face down with arms to the sides of the body, in unusual public spaces and photographing it, like on a police car for [...]
LG has put together a pretty awesome lineup of devices called Optimus.  Recently at Mobile World Congress 2011, an LG official confirmed that the LG Optimus 3D (pictured above), Optimus Black, and the Optimus 2X would be arriving in Australia in the second quarter or early third quarter of this year.  All three of these Optimus phones [...]
If you thought you wanted to work for Google and get awesome Christmas bonuses, this might push you over the edge a little.  Google has always been generous to their employees, offering in the past an HTC Hero and a Nexus One. Google plans on giving away the Nexus S to all Google employees, world-wide. They are [...]
Back in October there was a lot talk about the Ideos X5 and X6; everything then was just a rumor. A few days back, Huawei made the official announcement in Australia. Both phones will launch with Android 2.2, nothing mentioned or official on 2.3. Here is a snippet of the press release: “More than half of [...]
In recent weeks, the temperature in the smartphone arena has been on the rise. There has been as much attention on the performance of new devices as on budget friendly deals all over the market. Telstra, an Australian telco company, has been offering the HTC Wildfire as a pre-paid device at $349. If you have [...]
Sony secure soccer sponsorship Soccer players in the UK and Europe can get paid the same astronomical wages that basketball players do in the states. The biggest club competition in the game is the UEFA Champions League which pits the mights of such teams as Manchester United and Real Madrid against each other. Never ones [...]
CNET Australia surveyed 1000 smartphone users to find out what’s changing. Some highlights: People spend more minutes a day surfing the net than they do using the phone to make actual phone calls. Instant Messaging use takes up almost as many minutes as the calls. 75 percent of responders websurf more than 30 minutes a [...]
Never judge a phone by its cover Make it look like an iPhone and people will buy it. Not true, but that seems to be the mantra being chanted mindlessly by manufacturers. Take the Apanda A70 for (pictured below) example. Being produced in Shenzhen by startup Apanda. It has a1GHz Processor, 4.3 inches of screen [...]
Telstra spreading the love Telstra, Australia’s largest mobile services provider are really getting the knack of the Android business. As of August 24 they will start to retail the HTC Wildfire on a pre-pay deal. At A$350 ($317) that’s a good price for a good phone. Radio shows ain’t what they used to be The [...]
4G up 4Grabs The switch to digital television here in the UK is due to leave the 800Mhz radio bandwidth bereft of signal and thus opened up for other use. Obviously the growth of the mobile handset has meant a greater demand for bandwidth and these freed up frequencies are highly sought after. Having gone [...]
Split Personalities Taiwanese electronics corporation Acer plan to announce another dual boot netbook like their Inspire One D250. Like its fore bearer, the Inspire One AOD255 will also dual boot Windows XP but will have Android 2.1 as opposed to 1.6. If you don’t want to travel to Taiwan or wait until next month, the [...]
UK: BBC iPlayer Android App Removed From Shelf. The BBC holds a dear place in the hearts of the British. Colloquially we even refer to her as Auntie. “Making the unmissable, unmissable” is the tag line for her generally wonderful iPlayer service. Apart from being rather poor English, it would also appear that its not [...]
Welcome to Android Headlines’ new world round-up feature, where you can catch all the major Android based news, from right around the globe and on just one page. We know readers of Android Headlines are not just interested in what’s happening on their own doorstep but we also know how busy everyone is. So now [...]
Google fans will be rejoicing as the Nexus One hits Australian Vodafone stores tomorrow. Customers will need to enter a 24-month AU$79 cap (with a total minimum cost of AU$1896) as Vodafone isn’t selling the phone outright. However, customers will also need to be quick. “Stocks are strictly limited and online customer orders will be fulfilled [...]
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