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Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge Review

March 11, 2016 By Ritchie

  I’ve been following Samsung’s progression through being a player in the Android smartphone market to being almost as obsessed over as Apple’s iPhone. While their earlier incarnations were criticised for being too plasticky, and oft-times too heavily laden with bloatware, Samsung have not been afraid to return each year with phones that responded to […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Android, galaxy smartphone, Google, marshmallow, samsung phone, Smartphones, water resistant

How Google Nest Will Change The World

January 14, 2014 By Ritchie

Google Nest

Today’s big news was Google’s purchase of Nest for a massive 3.2 billion dollars. I met with the Nest crew back at the 2012 CES, and back then they had just the one product, a thermostat that enabled you to control and also learnt to efficiently manage your home’s environment. Recently Nest also launched a […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Google, home automation, Nest, Technology

Touchless Google Voice Search on Nexus 5

November 8, 2013 By Ritchie

google voice search

Voice control has been the holy grail of computing for many years, and smartphones are the perfect platform to see if this control system could actually deliver real benefits to users. Google has now released touchless Google Voice Search, and the first model that it appears on is its own Nexus 5. The big question […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Google, google voice, Technology

Samsung Galaxy S3 First Look at a VERY Smart Phone

June 1, 2012 By Ritchie

Samsung Galaxy S3

Bona fide events built around around product launches are few and far between these days, but there was no doubt that the local launch of the Samsung Galaxy S3 in Sydney yesterday was aimed to make as much of an impact as possible, delivering on the promise of a new mobile device that could set […]

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Google Lab Adds Gesture Control in Android Web Browser

February 15, 2012 By Ritchie

Menu options on Android Web Browser

We have been spending a fair bit of time discussing the Android Web Browser experience on the Android 4 tablet platform, courtesy of the Transformer Prime. We even had a chance to check out the Chrome for Android Beta browser. The fundamental issue here is that even though the stock Android web browser and the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Android, Android 4.0, android labs browser, Android Web Browser, app, apps, asus prime, Asus Transformer Prime, chrome, chrome beta, chrome beta for android, chrome browser, chrome for android, Chrome on Android, Flash support, gesture control, Google, Google Chrome, hands-on, Ice Cream Sandwich, ics, PC Hardware, Video, web browser

Chrome for Android Comes Without Flash Support

February 13, 2012 By Ritchie

Chrome for Android Comes Without Flash Support

Whether it’s on a smartphone or a tablet, the quality of the online browsing experience is critical to the success of any mobile device. Chrome for Android aims to become the optimum browser for Android devices. However, as we pointed out in our previous article, Chrome for Android comes without Flash support in its Beta […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Android, Android 4.0, app, apps, asus prime, Asus Transformer Prime, chrome, chrome beta, chrome beta for android, chrome browser, chrome for android, Chrome on Android, Flash support, Google, Google Chrome, hands-on, Ice Cream Sandwich, ics, Software, Tablets, Technology, Video, web browser

Chrome on Android Using the Asus Transformer Prime

February 9, 2012 By Ritchie

Chrome for Android Browsing Spooky Geen Android

Earlier this week Google released the beta version of Chrome on Android, fulfilling a commitment to provide a seamless link between the desktop and mobile browsing experience.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Android, Android 4.0, app, apps, asus prime, Asus Transformer Prime, chrome, chrome beta, chrome beta for android, chrome browser, chrome for android, Chrome on Android, Google, Google Chrome, hands-on, Ice Cream Sandwich, ics, PC Hardware, Software, Tablets, Technology, Video, web browser

Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas – Reflections on CES 2012

January 31, 2012 By Ritchie

LG and Google TV stand at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas CES 2012

The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has come and gone, and left behind a buzz of excitement and expectation for products and platforms that we will begin to see later on this year. A week after returning to Sydney, and with a couple more videos to upload, I thought I’d look back on […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: AMD, CE Show, CES, CES 2011, CES 2012, CES Fair, CES Show, Consumer Electronics Show, Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas, Google, Intel, Microsoft

CES 2012: Intel Smartphone Reference Design Demonstration

January 16, 2012 By Ritchie

At the Intel Keynote at the CES, CEO Paul Otenelli made quite a few major announcements, some of which will start to bear fruit later in the year. Of the big pieces of news to come out of that event was Intel’s foray into the Smartphone category – providing chipsets for manufacturers as an alternative […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Android, gaming, Google, Intel, Intel Reference Device, Mobile Phone, Smartphones, Technology, video playback, web browsing

Ritchie’s Room at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)!

January 6, 2012 By Ritchie

The 2012 CES is only a few days away and we just wanted to shout out to all our readers that we will be updating this site has much as possible with news from the 2012 tech launch event. We expect to see and share with you some great new releases including the latest Ultrabooks, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: AMD, CE Show, CES, CES 2011, CES 2012, CES Fair, CES Show, Consumer Electronics Show, Google, Intel, Microsoft

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