In this audio episode, Chris takes you through the more popular news items of the week in a fifteen minute podcast special. News items discussed this episode include:

HTC U11’s arrival on Australian shores

Google Photos auto archiving feature to keep your photo albums clean

Opal’s new travel app features for Sydney commuters

Andy Rubin’s new Essential phone with neat clip-on features

Scott revisits the LG G6 review, giving it a better (but not great) wrap

Please let us know what you think of this short form podcast format, as we’ve done a few of these now and we might do some more going forward as well!

Phil discusses the events of Day 2 at Computex Taipei

Phil is in Taiwan for Computex 2017, and he wraps up the first day in this special edition of the Ausdroid Podcast.

Scott and Dan discuss the latest from Google I/O, live from California

The second official day of Mobile World Congress saw Chris hunting zombies in VR over a 5G network, while Duncan and Jason attended the launch of a modern Android One handset from Turkey's General Mobile.

One of the things we undertook to do as part of our Mobile World Congress coverage this year was a nightly podcast going over the things we’ve seen during our daily travels, and we’re now at the end of Saturday 25 February (Barcelona time) which means you’re waking up on Sunday morning back home. To …

The smart home has been often promised and typically half delivered, few products exist that deliver you “the package”, and to be honest that’s still the case today. However, with the right combination of pieces, you can get close, and with just a few more integrations I think the IOT/ home automation is close to …

ZTE have been crowdsourcing the specs for their an Android powered smartphone over at their Project CSX community group. It seems the group is finally happy with their device and ZTE following suit and taking it to the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter, and they will ship the device anywhere in the world! In order to …

There is a new update to Android 7.1 coming to some Pixel users that is awakening a couple of dormant features. The Pixels new ‘moves’ are double tap to check phone (wake) and lift phone to check. We’ve known that double tap to wake was buried within the heart of the Pixel just waiting to …

At the end of each year here at Ausdroid we do a few posts with our favourite products in each categories for the year. Today the question was posed : What was the best tablet in 2016? Guess what the answer was: Correct. Nothing. My answer was: “was there even a half decent tablet released …