Now playing: Watch this: BlackBerry Diaries: day four 0:50 It’s day four of the BlackBerry Diaries and I find myself in a position that’s perfect for a user and dreadful for a tech writer: everything is working just fine. In an ideal world, I’d have encountered some unexpected issues that I’d have to find my …

There was no surprise around the news that Game of Thrones had, once again, broken torrent records with the premiere episode of season four. (Screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET Australia) What was surprising was that, according to Torrentfeak, Australia accounted for a full 11.6 per cent of torrent traffic, making us the number one GoT downloaders in the world, up from …

If there’s been one consistent complaint about Samsung’s Galaxy range in Australia, it’s revolved around the persistent application dock. Locked-down dock. (Credit: Claire Reilly/CNET Australia) We’re talking, of course, about that strip of five icons that stay at the bottom of the screen as you scroll through your various homescreens. It houses, in order, the Phone, Contacts, Messages and Internet …

Now playing: Watch this: BlackBerry Diaries: day three 1:44 The most recent BBOS update promised the ability to install Android app APKs directly on to your BlackBerry, without having to use a side-loading program. And it certainly delivered. You may not get the full functionality of Google Play, but provided you can find APK files you can (usually) get an …

LG first showed off its third generation of L Series phones at Mobile World Congress back In February. (Credit: LG) The company has now announced that two of the L Series III — the L40 and the L70 — will come to Australia, with the L70 launching in May and the L40 following in June. No pricing details are available, …

It may be true that 4K panels are now here, but the greatest complaint about the new resolution standard has been the lack of content. (Credit: Netflix) In the US, Sony was selling proprietary 4K material but, other than some YouTube clips, that was the only consumer 4K content and it only worked with Sony TVs. It wasn’t available in …

Well congratulations to Game of Thrones season four premiere, for breaking the torrenting record previous set by the season three finale — which in turn broke the record set by the season three premiere. (Screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET Australia) According to TorrentFreak’s now-regular data analysis around Game of Thrones, there were over one million downloads in half a day and …

Now playing: Watch this: BlackBerry Diaries: day two 1:13 Well, let it never be said that BlackBerry is without a vocal and dedicated user base. After the day one Diary, I was rather inundated with suggestions in the comments, via email and on social media. The main suggestion being, of course, “learn how to load Android apps”. So that’s what …

Now playing: Watch this: BlackBerry Diaries: day one 1:36 I’d expected setting up the BlackBerry Q10 to be a fairly long and involved process. I was half right. It was long, but only because of the time I needed to download the major OS updates that had occurred since the Q10 phone hit the market. But it certainly wasn’t that …

Telstra has confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy S5 has, indeed, been given Blue Tick accreditation. (Credit: Telstra) Samsung had previously told CNET Australia that it was anticipating getting the Blue Tick by launch date. The Telstra accreditation is given for “superior coverage performance” and signifies a phone that has better than average reception of Telstra’s network in regional and rural …