For those of you out there who are deadset keen on being one of the first to get your hands on an HTC Desire when it lands in Australia, register your interest at Telstra here.
Some of my friends are attending the HTC Desire launch event in Sydney today so it looks like it’s not too far away at all. As mentioned in my previous post, HTC announced that it would hit the ‘land down under’ in Q2, where Q2 is now only days away!
I’m interested to see who will hit our shores first: the Nexus One or HTC Desire. I believe that early-adopter Android fans will flock to whichever hits here first thus securing a formidable foothold for the future.
Life just got a lot easier for Vodafone Australia prepaid users. Mobile prepaid recharge is now possible directly online through PayPal, as long as you have an account with the online payment portal. If you’re only just registering a new PayPal account, you have to verify it first to be able to use it with the Vodafone live! mobile content portal.
The squishy beanbad gadget Chumby is slated to arrive in Australia after quite some time being US-centric. If you remember, Chumby is that soft-bodied widget-driven device with a touch screen panel that could be used to check the weather and listen to Internet radio among many other functions.
Telstra subsidiary Sensis just got hitched with Google. First, Sensis kills off its search engine completely and would, from now on, integrate Google’s search engine for the web site. Thankfully, there will be no layoffs as a result from the integration, but it would slash costs on Sensis’ part.
Optus has had to deal with a lot of beef from customers and the media over alleged outages not only for its 3G network, but also for its phone and internet services. August apparently saw numerous complaints about 3G network interruption in a few of the country’s locations.
