Telstra has just announced today’s early release of the HTC Desire. Those of you who expressed interest in the Desire should have got an email this morning. Only the Bourke St (Melbourne), George St (Sydney) and Hay St (Perth) [T]life stores are currently stocking the phone, with stores across the country receiving stock by the [...]
Someone with clout at Optus has obviously had a moment of clarity regarding the idiocy of the carrier’s decision to block paid Android applications from appearing in the Android Market. We’re happy to report that those of you unfortunate enough to be rocking a nice Android device on Optus’ horrible network can, as of about [...]
A spy shot of some Optus documentation has appeared on the web, detailing the available monthly plans and accompanying handset repayments for the iPhone 3G S – and the fact that Optus will be bringing visual voicemail to their network at no cost to the user.
Vodafone Australia has announced its pricing for the HTC Magic – and it’s more or less exactly the same as the iPhone 3G. That is, free on a two-year contract at $69 per month, which will get you $400 worth of calls and text and 1GB of data.
The CSIRO plans to use Australia’s soon-to-be-defunct analog television broadcasting infrastructure to deliver wireless broadband to anywhere that can currently receive an analog television signal. The technology, dubbed Broadband to the Bush, uses orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), a modulation scheme used by 802.11a/g/n (among many other wired and wireless technologies) and multiple input multiple [...]
Vodafone Australia is offering a subsidized Dell Inspiron Mini 9 with a built-in 3G modem and 5GB of monthly data for $59.95/month, provided you’re willing to sign a two-year contract. Of the $59.95, you’re paying $39.95/month for the 5GB data plan and $20/month for the Mini 9 – which doesn’t seem too bad considering the [...]
Internode has released two applications for the iPhone and iPod touch – NodeInfo allows ADSL customers to view usage, configuration info, network status, news and contact information, while NodeWiFi allows you to quickly locate and connect to Internode’s Wi-Fi hotspots.
