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Category: Lifestyle

Telstra Mobile Phone circa 1981. Image courtesy Tesltra Australia.

Australia rings in 30th anniversary of first mobile phone call

Gary Stark August 9, 2011August 11, 2011

30 years ago, the first phone call was made on Australia’s public mobile network. This call was made on a car phone system weighing 14 kilograms with a 45cm handset and costing nearly $5000 (or $17,000 in today’s terms).

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Huawei IDEOS X1

Huawei IDEOS X1 Review

Gary Stark August 8, 2011August 11, 2011

The Huawei IDEOS X1 is a small and inexpensive mobile phone running version 2.2 of Google’s Android operating system. As such, it’s a quite well featured phone, providing its owners with all of the functionality one expects from an Android …

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TomTom GO LIVE 820

TomTom Go Live 820 Review

Gary Stark August 8, 2011August 28, 2011

TomTom have just released their latest line of stand alone GPS systems into the Australian market, and they have kindly provided a new Go Live 820 for us to review. This quite compact unit features a 4.3 inch screen, a …

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Matt Taylor, Australian Blues Music Festival, Feb 2009. Copyright (c) 2009, Gary Stark

A New Way To Experience Live Concerts And Events

Press August 8, 2011August 11, 2011

Never miss out on tickets again! No Bad Seats offers world first – a front row seat to live concerts and events from across the globe, via pay-per-view web streaming. Sydney, August 8, 2011 No Bad Seats (www.nobadseats.com) is the …

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