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I Want To Live In Sydney’s Train Tunnels

Sydney is a pretty great place to be, but I now officially want to try living underground for a few months. Here’s why.


Telstra Plans To Stop Its 3G Ski Signal From Perishing

We want 3G everywhere, it seems. Telstra’s announced upgrade plans for its mobile communications tower in NSW ski town Perisher. The aim is to provide better service and lessen the possibility of employees being impaled by shards of falling ice.


Someone Made An Entire Movie About How Awful 3G Data Is

What began as a shamelessly transparent ploy by the LTE-peddling thugs of the mobile crime wars has evolved into a tale of star-crossed lovers set for the modern stage. Presenting 3G: The Killer Connection, a tale about what can happen when your choice of data carrier turns out to be wrong. Dead wrong.


An International, Flat-Rate, Pay-As-You-Go 3G Data SIM? Yes, Please

If you’re an avid traveller, you might want to think about picking up a soon-to-go-on-sale Doodad pay-as-you-go SIM card: it offers flat-rate 3G data around the world and will work in any unlocked GSM device. Australia is included as one of the launch countries too.


Nexus 7 With 3G Finally Available In Australia

The Nexus 7 is an amazing tablet, but imagine if it had 3G HSPA+? Imagine no longer, gadget fans: it’s finally on the Google Play Australia store!



Gizmodo Tours Telstra’s Top-Secret Test Labs

It’s Friday morning, and already the heat is on. I finish off my third bottle of water and look back at my phone for the building I’m meant to be visiting. My cab driver and I have already circled this block for 10 minutes searching for it. It’s a building with no name, no number, and no desire to ever be found by anyone.


Optus Broke Your 3G Internet This Morning

Wondering why you couldn’t browse the internet on Optus 3G this morning? Don’t worry, it wasn’t just you.


LG Nexus 4 Australian Review: If Only Android Was Always This Good

The Nexus 4 is the unassuming fourth album in the Google-certified smartphone master collection that is the Nexus program. It’s part of a larger ecosystem this time around, alongside the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets. Google is looking for a hat-trick after success with the Nexus 7. Is this another Google slam dunk?


Nexus 4 Australian Hands-On: Don’t Judge This Book By Its Sparkly Cover

The Nexus program, though it sounds like a Stargate: SG-1 reference, remains to be the shining beacon of everything Android. It’s a bright light in a fragmented jungle, and it has given us some stunningly good hardware over the years. From the Nexus One by HTC, right through to the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung, it has been a pretty good run so far. So what should we make of the slightly samey-looking Nexus 4 from LG? More than you’d think, actually.


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