The hugely anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus — the first Android phone to officially run the awesome new Ice Cream Sandwich build — officially makes its appearance in Australia this week. Of the three local carriers, who has the best deal if you want to buy on a contract? Planhacker runs through the numbers for Optus, Telstra and Vodafone.
So far we’ve looked at the basics of Smart TVs and examined what you can expect from each of the major vendor’s App stores. But which models should you be getting excited by? Let’s take a look at the top of the range from each Smart TV vendor.
There have been a bunch of delays, but Telstra will finally start selling the Samsung Galaxy S II — one of the more anticipated releases in this year’s crop of Android phones — from July 26.
Fancy a sweet new dual-core Samsung Galaxy S II? Gizmodo has an awesome competition giving away three of these super Android devices — you just have to prove how badly you need one. Get in quick before the competition closes on Sunday! [Gizmodo]
Having previously promised a mid-April release, Vodafone has now slightly delayed the Australian release of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v. Pre-orders will be accepted from April 20, and the tablet will ship from May 1 and hit stores on May 4.
We looked at the key features in Honeycomb earlier in the year, but we’re now getting much closer to the actual release of devices offering the optimised-for-tablet version of Android. I’ve been testing out the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v ahead of its official release, and it has some pretty nifty features for productivity-minded travellers.
We thought $599 was a more reasonable price for the Galaxy Tab Android tablet than its original $999 cost, but this is even better: Telstra has the device as an outright buy for $408.
We already knew that the Honeycomb-running 10.1 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet was a Vodafone exclusive. Now we have a firmer Australian release timeframe (mid-April) and one potential bit of good news for users who don’t want to be locked to a Vodafone contract: the device will be available outright for $729.
You might well ask: why does Vodafone keep scoring the good Android deals? No price details yet, but Samsung just announced at its Aussie WMC press launch that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be Vodafone-only at launch in early Q2, as part of a global deal. The same doesn’t apply to the Galaxy S2, fortunately.
Pretty much everyone agreed that $999 was way too much for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, so this is worth noting: Unique Mobiles is selling the Android-based Tab unlocked for $599. That’s more like it, though I’ll hazard a guess stock will move pretty quickly at that price. If anyone has bought from Unique before, tell us how well that went in the comments. [Unique Mobiles via OzBargain]
