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MS offering free WP7 phones, dev tools, training to WebOS devs!
Looks like MS is serious about getting developers on the Windows Phone 7! Brandon Watson, Senior Director of Windows Phone 7 development at Microsoft, put out the following tweet which really goes a long way to reach out to WebOS developers: What does this mean for Windows Phone 7? In less than one year…
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HP TouchPad has been discontinued, Now being clearanced away at 99$!
UPDATE: HP decided to sweeten the deal by giving out 6 free apps! (each valued from 0.99$ – 14.99$) You have till the end of the month to claim them. They also promise 6 more apps free in September! Mor Info on free apps here: http://blog.palm.com/palm/2011/08/6-pack.html Yup you heard that correctly everyone, HP has decided to can…
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Who is Suing whom? (with graphic chart!)
Thomson Reuters has a very interesting and confusing graphic chart on who is suing whom in the mobile world. It seems like every week we get a new lawsuit over some insane patent that may be years, or even decades old! A lot of mobile users are getting tired of the lawsuits…
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iPhone 5 rumor roundup! Release in October!?
BGR is reporting that one of their “high-level AT&T sources” has it that AT&T VP has confirmed an early October release of the heavily rumored and long awaited iPhone 5. He apparently also told a group of managers “Expect things to get really, really busy in the next 35-50 days, so prepare your teams…
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Samsung takes supporting developers to the next level! Adds Cyanogen to their payroll…
The big news just keeps on coming, first Google buys Motorola and now Samsung has officially hired the creator of CyangenMod to their ranks. It was not too long ago Samsung pronounced their support for developers by giving away free Samsung Galaxy S2 phones to CyanogenMod developers to help support further Android development on Samsung…
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Motogoogle???
According to this article found at Computerworld, it looks like Motorola has been purchased by Google!! What will this mean for Windows Phone 7? Nothing good, that is for sure!! Not only does it add a powerful developing market to Android but it isn’t likely we will see any Windows devices coming from Motorola either.
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I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream…..Sandwiches?
With iPhone 5 on the horizon, Google needs to do something to catch/keep our interest in Android and in the highly competitive marker of smartphones aside from new devices the best way to shake things up is a new OS!!! Google is trying just this with Ice Cream Sandwich!
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HTC Aquires Dashwire!!!
HTC has made great strides to allow easier backup and syncing with our devices to a cloud network. The acquisition of Dashwire is a very interesting and possibly blockbuster idea for HTC!!
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Verizon Fall Roadmap….sneak peak anyone?
How about an early Christmas present? We have a sneak peak of the fall lineup from Verizon, and it looks sweet!!! A couple surprises, some next gen and even a couple new players in the deck for us to pick from!
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Google Maps….now with London Transit Maps
I am not sure how many members we have from London here, but Google is looking out for you (and hopefully a sign of things to come). The new version of Google Maps has been released and it has the London Underground and transit maps included in it!!
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Wholesale 4g – From Sprint?!
Another industry first comes out of Overland park Kansas; where Sprint has announced that it will offer wholesale 4G sales. What does this mean exactly? Well it just means that it will allow other ISP or cable companies to use their system to offer 4G services. they will be providing the HTC Detail 3G/4G handset…
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Clearwire Adding 120Mbps “LTE-Advanced” to it’s Holdings
Well what a shocker we have here today! We all knew that Clearwire has been struggling to keep WiMax working properly; and we also knew that they were testing LTE technology at one point in Arizona. But what we did not expect to see was this! Clearwire says that this fall they are going to…
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HTC Offical Bootloader Unlock Process
So we were all excited about HTC allowing users to have unlocked bootloaders on their Android devices…Well with that comes a little pain – well to me a lot of pain. HTC released on their Facebook page the official process of unlocking your bootloader. Now it may come to a surprise that…
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[From The Forums] Backup your Android device to a cloud Network (root needed)
![[From The Forums] Backup your Android device to a cloud Network (root needed)](https://www.ppcgeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FromTheForums.jpg)
Kaos has recently posted about the new cool ability of Titanium backup to save backup files to a cloud server such as Dropbox. Read here: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/android-apps-games/145969-drop-box-titanium-backup-titanium-media-server-love.html
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Google Mail upgrade…..the good and the bad!
Google has been updating a lot of their applications lately, but the one that jumped out at me first was Gmail!! If you use Gmail and have an Android phone take a look at what I found over at PhoneScoop:
