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The PPCGP for 12/02/09 is OUT!
Ever wanted to listen to the latest, greatest, and all in between of the Windows Mobile, Android, and Iphone Community? Did you hear of the PPCGP? The Pocket PC Geeks Podcast is a weekly show hosted by Laos101, including a well rounded group of guests. Together they have a round table discussion, talking about the…
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FCC Opens Investigation Into Verizon
Apparently customers are not the only ones upset by Verizon’s new early termination fee (ETF) policy because the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has now opened an investigation. Verizon recently doubled the fee for customers with premium devices, from $175 to $350, who would like to get out of their contract with Big Red. Verizon argues…
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Only 5 out of 1.3 Billion Chinese buy iPhone online
According to a report in PC World, only 5 Apple iPhone’s were sold on the official website in China in the first 2 weeks of availability. The store, Taobao.com, the biggest Chinese e-commerce Web site and is similar to eBay in how it handles transactions, has sold just two 8GB iPhones and three 16GB iPhones,…
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Motorola DROID to get OTA Update Soon
Amid all of the hype regarding the Android 2.0.1 SDK today, Verizon sweetened the pot with an announcement that an OTA update for the Motorola DROID will be made available “in the coming weeks.” A few of the announced fixes will be for voice reception and the 5.0 megapixel camera’s notorious inabaility to correctly focus…
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RadioShack To Sell iPhone Nationwide Next Year
If you haven’t been in a RadioShack lately, you may not have noticed that they’ve been trying to ramp up their mobile device department over the past year. They offer a wide variety of phones from different carriers and is hoping to compete with Best Buy and Wal-Mart. Currently, only 10 RadioShack stores sell the…
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The PPCGP Is Live, NOW!
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 NOW at our ustream page, or listen sometime tomorrow! Topics tonight include new phones, talk about Windows Mobile, and hopefully one great kickoff to…
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And the winner is…
The iPhone 3GS, which is apparently the highest rated smartphone according to Consumer Reports. However, the Palm Pre, the Blackberry Storm, and other BlackBerry models bested the iPhone in messaging, and the Pre is a superior multi-tasker. And what phone do you think came in second? It is not an Android phone, but rather a…
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Google Maps for Windows Mobile updated to v3.3
Oh how old Google Maps version 1.0 must feel considering it is up to v3.3 now. The biggest update is synchronization of starred locations with the mobile and desktop versions. Below is the blog post by the Google Mobile team. You may download the .CAB here. As told by the Google Mobile team- Google Maps…
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Two New Opera Beta Downloads Available
Opera today released two new Beta versions of their popular mobile browsing software, Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5. The latest Opera Mobile 10 Beta and Opera Mini 5 Beta offer users some of the more popular desktop features, including Opera Link and the Download Manager, on their mobile phone. Opera Link allows a…
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[OP/ED]- Microsoft to ditch Mobile OS?
An interesting article has been posted by the UK’s newspaper The Guardian hypothesizes that Microsoft could abandon their Mobile OS platform, Windows Mobile, all together and call it quits. They cite that the 3.1 percent drop of their share of the Mobile OS Pie (down from 11 to 7.9%), the increasing support for Android from…
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[Updated] Sprint Revealed GPS Data 8 Million Times To Govt.
UPDATE– Sprint has issued a statement to explain that the high numbers (8 million) represent the number of “pings”, not the amount of users accessed. There can be thousands of pings per a single investigation. In a single investigation, once law enforcement has a court order, it can check someone’s location every 3 minutes for…
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Manila 2.5 has been landscaped
If you have are running a custom ROM that has Sense UI (AKA Touch Flo 3D 2.5) as its main user interface, there is now a cab available that allows you to enjoy the glories of landscape mode. Previously, Sense UI has only offered a Portrait-only point of view as the device that it originally…
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Jawbone Prime Bluetooth Headset Review
Jawbone Prime Bluetooth Headset Review November 30, 2009 by tsowen, PPCGeeks The Jawbone Bluetooth Headset offers noise cancellation and great call quality on both ends of the line Over the weekend I had a chance to review the Jawbone Prime Bluetooth Headset. Aliph’s Jawbones headsets have always been rated among the highest-rated Bluetooth…
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How many calls per Mhz can your carrier do?
Phone calls cost money. As consumers, we have the option to pay as you go, pay for a set amount of minutes per month, or choose an unlimited amount of minutes per month. But the amount of calls that the cell company can process is a static amount and is expensive and costs the same…
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Sprint is not “America’s most dependable 3G network”?
America’s most dependable 3G network. For a while now that has been what Sprint has used to describe their wireless network. However, Verizon Wireless has now called turkey (Ed.- It is Thanksgiving here in the U.S. so this cliche is allowable.) on this claim.
