Phil Tann — HTC just doesn’t seem to be able to catch a break right now, they’ve suffered one of their worst financial quarters to date and a steady stream of top executives have left the company recently, now Nokia have filed a patent infringement claim with the International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking to ban imports of the...

Phil Tann — The rumour of a ‘Google Edition’ HTC One has been doing the rounds since the announcement of the Google Edition Samsung Galaxy S4 at this Google IO, the existence of which was debunked immediately by HTC. In the last couple of days however, the rumours have been gaining momentum and there’s certainly been more and...

Phil Tann — Without doubt one of the biggest success stories for Android in the tablet arena over the past 2 years has been the Nexus 7. With sales approaching 4.6 Million units shipped worldwide, since its release in June last year, the tablet has gained mainstream success where other manufacturers have seemingly failed. Leading into Google I/O...

Phil Tann — HTC have put together a video history of their involvement in the smartphone industry, from their beginnings as an OEM manufacturer for companies such as O2 and Compaq building devices such as the Ipaq through to the introduction of their own branded devices. The video shows they have been at the forefront of new technologies...

Phil Tann — There’s only a very limited number of users who have seen and touched, even fewer who are lucky enough to own Google Glass right now. For those prepared to throw caution to the wind and void their warranty, the Google Developers site now includes a page exclusively for Google Glass which includes links to the...

Daniel Tyson — Looks like the new Gmail Android app got an outing at one of the IO developer sessions. At a session called ‘Structure in Android App Design’ Jens Nagel showed the slide above which shows the use of the navigation drawer as opposed to the action bar currently used in the Android Gmail app. The new...

Daniel Tyson — A month after Optus rolled out their Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy S2, Telstra are beginning their rollout. The Jelly Bean update which was approved for deployment by Telstra on the 17th of May is now rolling out, with users reporting the update arriving as an Over The Air(OTA) update. The new firmware...

Daniel Tyson — The next iteration of Android has pretty much been confirmed by a sighting of a Nexus 4 running Android 4.3 (JWR45B) by XDA user Chaleen at Thailand Mobile expo 2013. The familiar Android Jelly Bean Easter Egg screen ‘confirms’ that Android 4.3 will indeed be an iteration of Jelly Bean rather than a full blown...

Adam Ricket — When talking accounting software in Australia and New Zealand, one of the most recognisable names is Quickbooks or Quicken. The company behind this software, Reckon has been developing their accounting software products for the last 25 years. Reckon is currently rolling out their new modular accounting software package called Reckon One through a travelling trade...

Darren Kemp — With a pretty dismal year to date financially, things may be looking up for HTC according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. An unnamed HTC executive has advised them that sales figures for its flagship device the HTC One are ‘Around five million’ since it went on-sale around the world last month. The...

Darren Kemp — Yesterday we told you about the update to Chrome for Android (the stable build) and how this brought full screen browsing to phones. Well, with the stable build of chrome being promoted to version 27, it comes as no surprise that the beta version has now been updated to version 28. The biggest changes in...

James Finnigan — Yep, that’s the official party line. Apparently, some Asian variants of HTC’s flagship device — the HTC One — do have SD card slots, and when questioned about this, HTC’s Senior Global Online Communications Manager Jeff Gordon told Techradar that Chinese radio bands are smaller, which meant that they had additional space inside to fit...

James Finnigan — ClockworkMod is a staple in the Android world. If you’ve ever rooted your device, chances are you’ve come across it at some point, and almost every Android device imaginable supports it. And now, so does Glass. Google Glass was unlocked a while ago, and developers have been doing cool stuff with it ever since, but...