Category: General

  • Google Maps for Mobile updated to 4.0, includes Buzz

    Google Maps for Mobile has been updated to version 4.0. This update includes the newest product from Google, Google Buzz. Buzz  is a social integration and messaging tool that allows you to share updates, photos, videos, and more with regards to your location. If you still need further explanation, here is a video by Google…

  • Unlocked Palm Treo Pro for $161.99

    Would you like to own an unlocked Palm Treo Pro? If so, here is your opportunity! Dell Small Business is selling this device for $179.99 with free shipping. However, if you use the coupon code “CWT98NZP?Z66L8”, it drops down to $161.99. The site I found this deal at says this is the lowest price by…

  • BlackBerry Curve outsells iPhone in 4th Quarter, Droid 3rd

    According to research firm IDC, RIM has sold more BlackBerry Curves than the Apple iPhone 3GS in the 4th Quarter of 2009. Remembering that the Curve is offered on 7 different carriers as opposed to the iPhone’s exclusive deal with AT&T, this is still a momentous occasion as iPhone sales increased by 100%, to 8.7…

  • The PPCGP discusses Windows Mobile 7 and More! Come Join us Thursday!

    Ever wanted to LISTEN to your news, rather read it? The PPCGP, Pocket PC Geeks Podcast, is here! Rather than read the news, why not listen to it? You can tune in THURSDAY NIGHT at our ustream page, or listen sometime tomorrow via our RSS Feed!! We used to meet on Wednesday but it isn’t working out, so…

  • ClamTXT.com

    ClamTXT.com

    Do you love to pester people with text messages without being identified? What if you could carpet bomb somebody to the tune of 600 texts at once and there would be no way to trace it back to you? At clamtxt.com, you can do just that! What is it exactly? I’ll let Clamfather, one of…

  • EXCLUSIVE Breaking News : Windows Phone 7 Details Emerge From The Depths

    With the Mobile World Congress event making its way around the corner, we can all be for certain that it is inevitable for Windows Phone 7 to make its long awaited debut. That being said, there have been rumours floating about on what Windows Phone 7 might actually be? For months, almost a year we…

  • TONIGHT: THE PPCGP @ A NEW DATE AND TIME!

    Ever wanted to LISTEN to your news, rather read it? The PPCGP, Pocket PC Geeks Podcast, is here! And we have a new date and time! Rather than read the news, why not listen to it? You can tune in THURSDAY NIGHT at our ustream page, or listen sometime tomorrow via our RSS Feed!! We used to meet…

  • Symbian Goes Open Source

    In case you didn’t know, Symbian is the primary OS on most Nokia phones (with the exception of the newer Maemo-based ones) and is the most popular OS worldwide, with over 330 million devices sold in 2009 alone. In June 2008, Nokia bought Symbian and created the Symbian Foundation which is comprised of Nokia, LG,…

  • HTC and T-Mobile present: A Year of Rewards

    HTC and T-Mobile are teaming up for their latest campaign to sell you phones, and this one is a dandy folks. Anybody who signs a new 2-year contract with T-Mobile between January 20th and March 23rd of this year and decides on getting either a HTC Touch Pro2, a T-Mobile Dash 3G, or a T-Mobile…

  • Want to buy your own Wireless Company?

    Would you like to own your own wireless network? Do you hate those long term contracts and huge ETF’s? Then I have a deal for you! Leap Wireless, better known under their operating name as Cricket, is looking for potential suitors to either merge with or sell to. Talks with both AT&T and Verizon Wireless…

  • The PPCGP has a new date and time, come join us!

    Ever wanted to LISTEN to your news, rather read it? The PPCGP, Pocket PC Geeks Podcast, is here! Rather than read the news, why not listen to it? You can tune in THURSDAY NIGHT at our ustream page, or listen sometime tomorrow via our RSS Feed!! We used to meet on Wednesday but it isn’t working out, so…

  • Windows Mobile 7 has Gesture Control and runs on ARMv7?

    Here are two possible “facts” that I have found about Windows Mobile 7. I found the first while looking at a slide entitled “Personalizing Mobile Technology To Enhance Learning And Organizational Skills” and it indicates that Windows Mobile 7 will support gesture control via it’s front-facing camera. The presenter of the slide, a Mr. Neil…

  • What’s With The Carrier-less Craze, Google? Motorola?

    With the release of Google’s Android Operating System and wave of new devices that came with us, a new trend seems to be appearing with the fancy new linux smartphones. As we’ve seen with the famed Google Nexus One, and now Motorola with a confirmed, but unknown device, the developers are skipping the carrier and…

  • Firefox Mobile…It’s Alive…

    Wow…I wish I owned a Nokia N900 right now. Mozilla has just roll out the final, official, polished version of its mobile browser for N900’s. Called Firefox Mobile, it currently only runs on Nokia’s Maemo platform. Some of the features (you know this list will just grow…) Awesome Bar – Go to your favorite sites…

  • Microsoft CFO Confirms WM7 For Mobile World Congress

    While everyone at Microsoft seems to be hush-hush about Windows Mobile 7, Peter Clein, CFO of Microsoft, finally gave us some information. In an interview with Fox, he was asked “Are we going to see Windows 7 Mobile come out in 2010? What is your plans for that?” His response was “We are heads down…