US electronics giant Motorola today announced that its Xoom tablet will be arriving in Australia through Telstra next month. The Xoom was the first tablet device to feature Google’s new Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system and has generally received favourable reviews. The 10.1-inch tablet features a dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 250 processor with 32GB [...]
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Telstra has become the latest to announce an exclusive handset release aimed for March. The Australian telco giant will be the exclusive retailer of the new HTC HD7, the Microsoft Windows 7-based smartphone. The phone features a 4.3-inch capacitive-touchscreen LCD panel and will capture 720p (1280×720-pixel) video via the on-board camera. It’ll be available for [...]
Android has fast become the flavour for prepaid smartphones but Australian telco giant Telstra has decided to throw fuel onto the fire by launching the first $99 smartphone with the Android operating system. The new Smart-Touch features a 2.8-inch resistive screen with 240×320-pixel resolution, runs Android 2.1 and includes WiFi, a GPS and 3.2-megapixel camera. [...]
There’s little doubt that 2011 will be the year of the Tablet. The way PC and telecommunications vendors are tripping over themselves to launch new product is something I haven’t seen for 15 years and the launch of Windows 95. But with so many options and many consumers only considering these devices for the first [...]
While the DIY community has had Google’s Android 2.2 operating system (codenamed Froyo) running on the HTC Desire smartphone for some weeks, it has finally been released as an official update by its major Australian telco backer. Telstra has released an official Froyo update for its Desire customers as an over-the-air (OTA) update. The 92MB [...]