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Australia’s Telstra is reporting that Nokia Lumia 920 is selling like hot cupcakes on a cold winter day. In fact, the demand has been impressive, with the carrier’s rep calling it “beyond amazing.” He/she went on to say that it’s not just Australia where Nokia is selling a ton of Lumia 920’s — globally the…
Telstra wants you to know more about Android and has created an interactive, in-store experience that’s all about the green robot. The interactive store-within-a-store is called Androidland and is located in the Bourke Street Telstra store in Melbourne. Inside Androidland, you can play with wall-sized versions of Google Maps, play games like Angry Birds (which ironically started as an iOS game), and learn about other features of Android. Incredibly, the…
We’ve already told you Nokia has started shipping the N9, its first commercially available MeeGo device. We also said that Australians will be among the first one to get the new phone and voila… one of the operators in country has started taking orders for the all-touchscreen device. Telstra was the first company to jump…
When you think about where the world’s advanced wireless networks are, countries that come to mind are Japan, South Korea, and Sweden, but have you ever considered Australia? Telstra, the largest operator in a nation that’s ridiculously competitive, was the first in the world to launch a 42 Mbps HSPA+ network and have said that…
We’ve already told you Telstra is interested to bring Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets (i.e. Motorola Xoom) to Australia. Well, that information is now confirmed with the release date set at some point in May. Unfortunately, we don’t know the price, but we do hope to see Telstra subsidizing the device to customers willing to commit…
We’ve seen glimpses of the upcoming touchscreen BlackBerry Bold here in North America, but RIM’s a global company, it looks like they’re getting ready to launch it worldwide. A batch of hands-on pictures of the Bold Touch 9900 (code-named Dakota) have surfaced in Latin America, where it was compared to the Bold 9700 and Torch.…
Telstra announced that it will bring the Sony Ericsson Xperia neo to Australia. Pricing and availability information are unknown at the moment, and we’ll have to wait for a “date closer to launch” to find that out. In the meantime, it’s good to know Telstra wants to keep up with the times and have a…
Femtocells are awesome … on paper. You get this little box, connect it to your wired broadband connection, and now you’ve got a little base station in your home giving you a strong signal where you might not have otherwise had any. Telstra Chief Technology Officer Hugh Bradlow on the other hand says: “Femtocells —…
Australia’s Telstra unveiled plans to upgrade its Next G network with 4G LTE technology later in the year. The company will focus on central business districts of all Australian capital cities and selected regional centres, and use its existing 1800MHz spectrum to bring 4G to areas where traffic demand is most concentrated. At the same…
File this under “rumors,” but it seems Telstra is looking to bring the Motorola Atrix to Australia. We don’t have anything official at this point, only the operator’s blog was let’s say too curious about Moto’s dual-core powered Android smartphone, featuring few pictures of the device. Furthermore, an article about CES 2011 said that Telstra’s…