Its very much official now, the AU$15 billion merger of Vodafone Hutchinson Australia (VHA) and TPG will now go ahead thanks to the ACCC ruling out appealing the high court’s decision to allow the merger to go ahead. It’s certainly has been a long time coming…

A Google Assistant Action for a sexy SUV you say? What can it do? Before you get too excited this Action doesn’t actually control the Seltos, it’s more a Q&A, or even an interactive advert you could argue. To play with Kia’s Seltos Action all you need do…

Oppo’s on a quest to uncover the ultimate flagship, and they’re pretty sure they’ve found it in their own portfolio. The Find X2 Pro (the standard version of the phone is skipping Australia) will be arriving on our shores soon, and there’s much to recommend…

OPPO decided against announcing the expected OPPO Watch on stage at the global launch streamed live from Barcelona last night. Instead, in an interesting decision, along with a press release sent out they launched it on stage at the Chinese event. We had…

Motorola is on a winner with their near stock Moto G line of devices, and today they have taken the wraps of their latest variant, the Moto G8. The Moto G8 sits in the middle of the pack when compared to other G8 devices such as the Moto G8 Plus, G8 Power…

What is Mobile First indexing? Simply put it determines a site’s search rank score based on it’s mobile web performance. A sites mobile performance is not always the same as it’s traditional or desktop performance, and in today’s guidance web masters are…

Just two weeks ago, I attended a media dinner with Huawei in the company of many others of Sydney’s respected technology journalists. Smiles left and right, pleasant company and a nice dinner, even some time for a play with the newly announced Huawei Mate…

The Google Messages platform is continuing to evolve, we’ve seen the addition of RCS with Telstra and soon we may see reactions added too. The team at 9to5Google has discovered through an APK teardown some code strings that suggest the changes are close to…

Following on from the earlier Pixel 4a render leak that we saw, we may now be getting some leaked hands on images including a few feature an updated ‘carpet bag’ looking fabric case. While these images look very close to what we are expecting, we’d recommend…

Samsung’s latest Galaxy S series is with us, and in its twelfth generation, the Galaxy S20 range offers something for everyone. From the diminutive Galaxy S20 to the giant Galaxy S20 Ultra, there’s a handset for every size, want and feature set, and here’s…

With only a couple of months until the original expected launch date for the 2020 Google Pixel 4a, we’re starting to see an increase in the leaks for the device. Yesterday we got a look at the new fabric case (we’re not a fan) and a few screenshots, today…

These days flagships, whether they are the ultra premium or just the premium version cost you a pretty penny and no one wants to have an accidental breakage of something so expensive. There are a myriad of options out there for you to protect your Galaxy…

When the Google Pixel 4 was first released, there was quite the stir caused by what seems a puzzling choice by Google to not require users eyes to be open. While this in itself isn’t necessarily a problem, it does pose some potential personal data security…

It’s not the phone in the series that gets all – if not much – of the attention, but Samsung’s entry-level Galaxy S20 phone offers virtually all the features of its larger, more expensive S20+ cousin, in a smaller, more pocket-able format with 95% feature…

ALDI Special Buys are always somewhat interesting, and can also be a bit of hit or miss too but every now again, they do offer some interesting products for us that could tempt us to part ways with our hard earned bucks. The special buys for this Saturday…

Like so many in the tech world, we love some good renders at Ausdroid. Thanks to Onleaks we’ve had an early look at the Motorola Edge+ which – on paper – has great potential to be special. We don’t yet know the full specs of the device, as there’s not been…

Holy smoke Ausdroid readers, Google Assistant can now tell you if it’s smoky in your place! The latest new smart device to gain integration with Google Assistant’s Smart Home Devices are Smoke Detectors. With the new device traits, OEMS can now program native…

One significant threat to using a password manager like LastPass is that if that account falls into the wrong hands you lose everything, which means attacks on those services are even more of a threat to users. Unfortunately, the weakest link in security…