The smartphone‘s ever growing ubiquity has led to the rise of public kiosks for recharging smartphones. These have been appearing in airports, malls and food courts, and come in both free and paid-for variants. The question is, are they safe to use? After all, putting a strange jack in your…
Following the introduction of Vodafone and Optus’ 20GB post-paid smartphone plans, Telstra is offering a new “Premium Mobile” option with a monthly data allowance of 25GB. As with Vodafone’s and Optus’ new supersized plans, Telstra’s offering is made up of a base quota, and a sign-up bonus. The plan’s base…
Vodafone over the weekend introduced a new offer allowing customers on month-to-month SIM only plans buy a smartphone outright and pay it off over the course of as many as three years. Customers purchasing a smartphone outright through Vodafone will have the option to pay for it in monthly instalments…
…features a button for performing in game actions. Pokémon Go will be available for free on iOS and Android in 2016, and will be supported with in-app purchases. While smartphone apps are a radical new direction for Nintendo, Pokémon Go won’t be the first time the long running series appears…
…single user Office 365 Personal subscription is priced at either AUD$89 per year or AUD$9 per month. This includes three licenses: one for a PC or Mac, one for a tablet, and one for a smartphone. An Office 365 Home subscription retails for either AUD$119 per year, or AUD$12 per…
iOS 9 – the latest version of Apple’s smartphone operating system – will be released as a free upgrade for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users on September 16. First announced at WWDC, iOS 9 is an update focused on usability and performance, rather than features. iOS 9’s flagship feature…
…date brings up a snapshot of a user’s calendar. The iPhone 6s Plus and iPhone 6s Plus are built from the same custom aluminium alloy used for the Apple Watch Sport, and are covered in a brand new Ion-X glass that Apple calls the “world’s strongest smartphone glass”. In addition…
…said Cook. “The television experience has been standing still while innovation in the mobile space has been racing ahead.” The new Apple TV is powered by a fork of iOS called tvOS. While the new operating system shares many of its visual elements (and development tools) with Apple’s smartphone platform,…
Optus has added a post-paid phone plan with a monthly data allowance of 20GB to its repertoire, following a similar announcement from Vodafone on Monday morning. Optus’ new AUD$135 per month plan boasts 16GB of data, unlimited talk, unlimited text, and 500 international minutes. Customers who sign up before January…
OPPO’s R7 Plus phablet will go on sale locally from September 14 at a retail price for AUD$599. The mid-range smartphone boasts a 6-inch Full HD display, an eight-core Snapdragon 615 processor, a rear-facing fingerprint reader, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of expandable storage. Front and rear cameras and set…
Vodafone is trying to sate the needs of data-hungry Australians with a new smartphone plan offering a monthly data allowance of up to 20GB. The telco’s newly announced AUD$130 per month Red plan offers customers a base data allowance of 15GB per month on top of Vodafone’s standard “infinite” talk…
Connected toy manufactured Sphero has teamed up with Disney to make a smartphone controlled version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ BB-8 droid. While Sphero BB-8’s body is essentially a reskinned Sphero, the head is an all new part connected with magnets. This means it will stay upright while staying…