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Review of the Motorola MOTOROKR T505 Bluetooth In-Car Speakerphone w/ Digital FM Transmitter
Motorola MotoRokr T505 Review October 9, 2009 by tsowen, PPCGeeks Motorola’s T505 is easy to use while your eyes are on the road. All too often we have all witnessed that driver who has been talking on their cell phone and driving at the same time. It is something that has become a habit especially…
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[Breaking News] WM 7 RTM and Office Mobile 7
Is Windows Mobile 7 right around the corner? It would seem so after Stephen Chapman, owner of Microsoft Kitchen, came across some documents that indicate an updated RTM of April 2010. If this is true, the general population will most likely have to wait until September-October of 2010 to have WM 7 on their phones.…
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Customer Service Showdown: Who Wins?
The good people at Laptop Magazine recently undertook the daunting task of testing and rating the customer service of the Big Four carriers in the United States. So they set out on a trip across New York City, the phone lines, and the interwebs in an effort to gauge the parts of the carriers’ customer…
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MS Market Place Cracked Already
And then there was Marketplace……… XDA member Chainfire has already figured out how to take the chains off of the MS Market Place. According to Chainfire “It took me less than five minutes to circumvent this “protection”, and get the ability to save the CABs the MarketPlace app downloads to a different folder. As the…
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Android, not iPhone, is Bigger Symbian Challenger
In the on-going battle for global dominance in the cell phone world, it seems that Google’s Android will be emerging as a big challenger over the next few years. Currently running on less than 2% of all smartphones, Gartner Inc. predicts it will surge to 14% of the global smartphone market by 2012 — ahead…
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Official Update to Windows Mobile 6.5
For some time now we have all known about WM 6.5 and the burning question in the back of everyones mind is what devices will be updated. Here’s the official U.S. list, per Microsoft: HTC Dash 3G. HTC Ozone. HTC Snap. HTC Touch Pro 2. Samsung Jack. Samsung Mirage. Samsung Omnia Pro. Pharos Traveler 137.…
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New MobiHand AppStore from PPCGeeks
PPCGeeks is proud to announce the new MobiHand AppStore! You can now browse, buy, and download apps right from your phone! Some of the benefits include: Deal-of-the-Day: Exclusive offer of a new top-selling app every day for 50% off Specials: Loads of discounted apps and bundles can be found daily Nearly 5,000 Apps which can…
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Visit the PPCGeeks Store!
You can now buy software and accessories for your PPC devices right here at PPCGeeks (powered by MobiHand)! We will offer special promotion codes, which will be posted on the News page, and occasionally in our forums for members-only. Our first coupon code is to celebrate our grand opening! Use code PPCGeeksOpen at checkout and…
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Google’s Google Sync NOW supports push email!
After months of waiting, Google now supports email synchronization via its push service, Google Sync. Using Windows Mobile’s Microsoft Exchange service, your favorite windows mobile device can now synchronize its content with Google Contacts, Calender, and even Mail now via Push Mail! For some time now, Google has been offering its Synchronization service (in the form…
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[UPDATED] Microsoft’s Marketplace for Mobile Has Remote Death Switch For Apps
Updated September 18: Microsoft has offered some clarification on this issue: Quote: In the vast majority of instances where an application is removed from Windows Marketplace for Mobile, users of this application will continue to be able to use these applications on their phones. In the rare event an application from Marketplace exhibits harmful behavior…
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Palm to Abandon Windows Mobile….Will Stick With WebOS
Palm’s Jon Rubinstein just made it official during their financial results conference call: Palm is only going to develop WebOS devices from now on. So long Windows Mobile Devices: “Due to importance of WebOS to our overall strategy, we’ve made the decision to dedicate all future development resources to the evolution of WebOS. Which means…
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Waze begins Alpha Testing
Waze the social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road annouced it would be are releasing alpha version of their program for Windows Mobile and Symbian phones. So if you want to participate in this alpha test go here and submit your info.
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HTC Leo: Capacitive & Multi-touch Abilities
Looks like HTC’s Leo will be the first Windows Mobile smartphone to feature a capacitive touchscreen and multi-touch capabilities (see video below) ala our friends at Apple and their iPhone.
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Google Releases Android 1.6 (Mmmm…Donut)
The Goods The good people at Google have just released Android 1.6 (a.k.a. Donut). Donut appears to be fully compatible with Cupcake (Android 1.5). Android 1.6 provides greater support for screen densities and resolutions. In fact Android 1.6 now also supports QVGA and WVGA. It also now includes support for CDMA in the telephony stack…
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UPDATED: Kinoma planning something big.. And that is Symbian OS Release!
UPDATE II: The big news that Kinoma was planning on sharing is that their Kinoma Play has been released on the Symbian OS. Today Kinoma announced that its flagship product, Kinoma Play, is now available for Nokia S60, the world’s dominant smartphone platform. Nokia S60 users can now enjoy the best way to find, play,…
