Phone maker of the moment HTC today unleashed its latest Android smartphone onto the Australian market. The new Aria is a slightly more compact version of the HTC Legend with similar 3.2-inch 320×480-pixel resolution LCD panel and the same 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor. The only disappoint aspect of the Aria is that it comes with [...]
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Telco giant Optus, along with its technology partner, Nokia Siemens Networks, today announced it had successfully demoed new LTE (long-term evolution) on the 2100MHz spectrum. The two companies using just 10MHz of bandwidth in the spectrum were able to achieve up to 50Mbps downloads and 20Mbps uploads using pre-release USB LTE dongles. The tests were [...]
Australian telco Optus has announced today that it will launch Motorola’s new Milestone smartphone into the market on July 7. The company is claiming the new Motorola phone is one of the thinnest QWERTY sliders on the market at 13.7mm. The Milestone features a 3.7-inch widescreen LCD panel with 854×480-pixel resolution, powered by a 600MHz [...]
July 1 will not only herald in a new financial year but also begin a new battle in the smartphone war between telco rivals Telstra and Optus. Both telcos will bring out their latest weapons, which both have claimed on an exclusive basis for the month of July. Telstra will be launching the new LG [...]
July 1 looks like being a big day for the Australian smartphone market with telco heavyweights Telstra and Optus ready to do battle with dueling smartphones. While Telstra announced a couple of days ago its plans to launch the LG Optimus on July 1, Optus has today made its intentions clear and will launch the [...]