News (21)

  • Tasty Cupcake update for Optus

    Optus plans to deliver the Cupcake update for Android to customers owning an HTC Dream over the air, after a period of internal testing.

  • Motorola Droid to run Android 2.0?

    The Android news keeps getting better and better. The latest rumour from the US is that the soon to be released Motorola Droid will run Android OS version 2.0.

  • Vodafone, 3 to offer different HTC Magics

    The HTC Magic will launch with both Vodafone and 3 Mobile, though close inspection reveals the handsets available will differ slightly between the carriers.

  • Vodafone Magic pricing cheaper than 3

    Vodafone has announced pricing for the soon-to-be-released HTC Magic, and its price is significantly cheaper than competitor 3 Mobile.

  • Google announces Chrome OS

    Google this afternoon announced the creation of the Google Chrome Operating System project, with the goal to build a Linux-based OS available for purchase on netbooks in the second half of 2010.

More News >

Blogs (3)

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    Tell them they're Dreaming

    The amount of attention the HTC Dream gets when I flash it around in New Zealand is quite remarkable; and the HTC Magic on Vodafone seems set to get even more.

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Jailbreaking: A geek's Everest

    If I choose to upgrade the engine of my car, Holden will not recall it at some point in the future to restore its default configuration. Yet to most users, this behaviour is perfectly acceptable for devices.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra's iPhone-free parallel universe

    Given that the new iPhone 3G S is rated at up to 7.2Mbps, you'd think Telstra would be all over it as a potential show pony for Next G's purported high-speed performance. Yet the opposite seems to be true.

Features and Case Studies (3)

  • The Android update: Video

    Google's Android operating platform is gaining momentum, with manufacturers HTC, Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson all soon to release Android-powered mobiles into the market.

  • Security showdown: iPhone vs Google Android

    Google's recent announcement of Android has sparked a debate over whether the mobile Linux platform will prove more secure than Apple's proprietary iPhone.

  • iPhone 3.0: This had better be good

    When Apple whips the covers off the latest iPhone software we want to be blown away, because when it comes to a major software update copy-and-paste just doesn't cut it.

Videos (3)

  • Play now

    Megaphone: Android update

    Google's Android operating platform for mobiles is gaining momentum. We take a look at the phones that run it now, and the future phones that will.

  • Play now

    Another operating system setback at Microsoft

    The timing couldn't have been worse. What with Android phones now hitting the market and updates to Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry, Microsoft is telling partners to expect delays receiving Mobile Windows 7. On the CNET News Daily Debrief, Charles Cooper speaks with Ina Fried, who broke the news of the delay.

  • Play now

    Motorola debuts Motoblur and Cliq

    At the Mobilize conference held in San Francisco, Motorola unveiled Motoblur, a new user interface based around social networking. The Android OS-based skin will feature live widgets for integrating sites like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, as well as aggregating contact details and displaying recent status updates during calls.

Reviews (7)

  • HTC Hero

    With excellent web browsing, email and access to apps, the HTC Hero is one of the few mobiles to truly challenge the iPhone this year.

  • HTC Magic

    Parts of the phone are as the name suggests, magic, but the absence of outstanding multimedia jeopardises the success of this latest Android.

  • Nokia E72

    Business users looking for a competent, no-nonsense smartphone will like the E72 for its breadth of features and stylish design.

  • Nokia N97

    The N97 features class-leading specs matched with outstanding design and build, but it loses marks for the Symbian platform that desperately needs an overhaul to stay competitive.

  • HTC Touch Diamond2

    If you're prepared to manage the memory and train yourself to use the keyboard, then there are few WiMo phones sexier than the Diamond2.

More Reviews >

Create an e-mail alert for "android"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
android


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 2 3 mobile
  2. Popularity: 1 adobe
  3. Popularity: 8 apple
  4. Popularity: 2 applications
  5. Popularity: 1 blackberry
  6. Popularity: 2 browser
  7. Popularity: 1 business
  8. Popularity: 1 ces2009
  9. Popularity: 2 chrome
  10. Popularity: 1 cs4
  11. Popularity: 2 cupcake
  12. Popularity: 2 developer
  13. Popularity: 3 dream
  14. Popularity: 1 dreamweaver
  15. Popularity: 1 enterprise
  16. Popularity: 2 facebook
  17. Popularity: 1 firefox
  18. Popularity: 1 gates
  19. Popularity: 11 google
  20. Popularity: 2 hero
  21. Popularity: 9 htc
  22. Popularity: 1 internet explorer
  23. Popularity: 9 iphone
  24. Popularity: 1 javafx
  25. Popularity: 5 magic
  26. Popularity: 3 microsoft
  27. Popularity: 8 mobile
  28. Popularity: 12 mobile phone
  29. Popularity: 1 mozilla
  30. Popularity: 2 nokia
  31. Popularity: 1 o2
  32. Popularity: 1 office
  33. Popularity: 3 operating system
  34. Popularity: 4 optus
  35. Popularity: 2 os
  36. Popularity: 4 phone
  37. Popularity: 1 photoshop
  38. Popularity: 3 sdk
  39. Popularity: 2 security
  40. Popularity: 5 smartphone
  41. Popularity: 1 social networking
  42. Popularity: 4 software
  43. Popularity: 2 telstra
  44. Popularity: 3 touchscreen
  45. Popularity: 1 uk
  46. Popularity: 5 vodafone
  47. Popularity: 1 webos
  48. Popularity: 2 windows
  49. Popularity: 2 windows mobile
  50. Popularity: 1 year in review

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Phil Dobbie Conroy explains his magic filter
    In today's Twisted Wire, we put the screws on Communications Minister Stephen Conroy about his controversial internet filter policy.
  • Array Copenhagen lessons on green IT
    After the global financial crisis placed green IT on the back-burner, is it about to become sexy again due to the likes of New Zealand's new emissions trading scheme?
  • Array Welcome to National Censorship Day
    Conroy's blind adherence to his net filtering plan will abandon net neutrality ideals and push ISPs down a slippery slope of unprecedented responsibility for a callously politicised Australian internet.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured