You've seen the contract prices and you might be tempted to sign up and avoid paying big upfront for Samsung's excellent, expensive and explosion-proof Galaxy Note 8 -- but while signing up for a plan may mean more money in your pocket in the short term, you could end up paying much more over the life of the phone. Here's how much you can save by buying a Note 8 outright and choosing the right prepaid plan.

If you ever binned tens of hours in the turn-based Scorched Earth MMO clone that is Gunbound, you might like to know that the game has made a return - on mobiles, of course.

The OnePlus employees seemed a little annoyed when I asked how they felt about people comparing its new device to an iPhone. Sure, both phones feature dual camera designs. Yes, the OnePlus 5 has curves that look a lot like an Apple product. Ugh, fine, it's a really good phone, too. What's the big deal?

Having guided you through the not-all-that-straightforward process of switching from Android to iOS, we're back to tell you how to go in the opposite direction. (Make your mind up will you?) Going from Apple-powered devices to Google's platform is either ridiculously easy or rather taxing, depending on your current setup.

There was a time when we thought of prepaid plans as the domain of children and drug dealers, but thanks to a bevy of tiny telcos offering great prepaid rates, the market for these no commitment SIMs is heating up. Here are our picks for prepaid plans with the longest expiry, 10GB of data and under $30 per month.

Try as the universe might, Futurama's a property that seemingly can't be killed -- or at least stay dead for very long.

Having already built their own DSLAMs and taken on the NBN by wiring up offices and buildings directly with fibre, TPG this morning announced they were taking on a new front: the mobile network.

Following their outage across Sunday night and Monday, Vodafone is giving all of its customers 2GB of free data in their upcoming billing cycles.

If you're looking to upgrade your phone, and Apple's announcement of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus this week caught your mind, then you might like to know how much it'll cost.

For all of nine months, I absolutely loved the hell out of my LG G4. But as the months have gone on -- months, not years -- it's started to lag. Games like Pokemon GO have come out and absolutely bogged the living bejesus out of it. Apps like Facebook Live have torn it to shreds. And I'm pretty damn good at tossing my phone across a room.

So I'm in need of an upgrade. Question is -- how much should I spend, and do I go Android or iPhone?

Not content with being one of the company's senior engine programmers, id software's Axel Gneiting has decided to spend some of his spare time giving the original Quake a bit of love. And naturally, one thing led to another.

Spam, viruses, and phishing scams are a real threat to mobile device security. They steal your bandwidth, time, and in some cases, your data and identity. Luckily, readers of Kotaku Australia can purchase protection from these dangers with a 2-year subscription to ESET Mobile Security for Android, only $14 AUD , a savings of 66% off RRP.

I've been playing one of the latest Samsung phones for the last fortnight, precisely for one reason: the Gear VR headset that came with it. Mobile VR is supposedly going to be the actual catalyst for VR to take off in this country, if you listen to analysts. And that makes some sense: it doesn't cost hundreds, or thousands, of dollars.

But the Gear VR isn't a perfect piece of tech, and over the past two weeks I've tried, and failed, to conquer a certain milestone.

Maybe this is why we don't want to allow our photographers to snap politicians in the upper house when they're not standing or speaking.

While it's fun to look at how far things have come on consoles and home PCs, the reality is the most rapid growth in computing power is happening on mobiles. That was made evidently clear at the World Mobile Congress, with Samsung showing off a feature in their latest Galaxy S7 that would fit right at home with any PC.