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What can you do if you have an itch for a big-screen smartphone but can't get value from a plan that offers a $0 upfront handset or afford hundreds of dollars for an unlocked phone? If that describes your situation, Kogan is coming to the rescue with the $149 Kogan Agora Smartphone.

Huawei has expanded the range of sub-$200 smartphones available to Australian consumers with the arrival of the Ascend G300 and Y100 - but there is a catch.

Motorola has just this morning launched version 2.0 of its original 'XOOM' tablet in Australia, but given the fact that Asus has already launched its quad-core, ICS 4.0-equipped Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, is the competition zooming past a Motorola that needs much more mobility?

Huawei claims it's new Android 4.0-powered smartphone - the Ascend P1 S - is the world's slimmest.

The Android market is tipped to fragment as demand surges for low cost smartphones that will not have the grunt to run the latest version of the Android OS, 4.0, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich.

Although Samsung's flagship Galaxy Nexus smartphone with Google's Android 4.0 OS will be available through telcos on cheaper contract plans, Kogan's the first to announce an unlocked price and data of availability for Australians, beating telcos to the new-phone-release punch.

Google has announced the next version of Android, 4.0 and as the version numbers get bigger, so do the names. This one goes by the moniker "Ice Cream Sandwich". Unlike its namesake, it promises to be "refined".