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Verizon Wireless Stores Open Early For DROID
Verizon Wireless just announced that many of its retail stores will be opening early on Friday, November 6th to give people the earliest opportunity to purchase the DROID, the world’s first Android 2.0 smartphone. Some stores will open at 7am and others will open at 8am, so check with your local store for their special…
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Sprint’s Samsung Moment Now Available
Sprint’s next Android phone, the Samsung Moment is now available to purchase. Like the Verizon Droid, its a touchscreen slider with a 3.2MP camera, but it boasts an AMOLED display and an 800MHz processor. It also has the standard WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, EV-DO rev. A, visual voicemail, 3.5mm jack, microSD card and a TouchWiz UI.…
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Sprint Launches 4G In Multiple Cities
Today Sprint announced the launch of 4G WiMAX in multiple cities, including: Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary, N.C., and Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, N.C. “Sprint 4G will launch later this month in the Texas cities of Austin and San Antonio.” “In 2010, Sprint expects to launch service in multiple…
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Windows 7 and Intel P55 chipset= No iPhone Sync
Are you running Windows 7 on an Intel P55 chipset? Are you also an iPhone user? Are you having a problem with syncing with iTunes? If so, you are not alone. A thread from Apple’s Discussion Board has highlighted a problem where iTunes 9 for Windows will recognize the users iPhone, but when a sync…
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[Breaking News] CDMA Touch Pro2 Unlocked!
PPCGeeks is happy to report that the CDMA Touch Pro2 has been unlocked and is now ready to accept custom ROM’s! The unlocker, posted here, can be downloaded for use on all CDMA Touch Pro2 devices. As a warning, any user who unlocks and flashes custom ROM’s could void their warranty. Also, flashing any ROM…
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The “Droids” are coming. All of them!
For the past few weeks, all I have been hearing about is DROID! Droid does everything you want; Droid is everywhere you need it to be (like Times Square), and it’s “App-Mashing and Multitasking”. Seems like another awesome phone, right? And that’s where we are wrong.
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PPCG Review: Samsung SBH-600 Bluetooth Stereo Headset
I had the change to review the Samsung SBH 600 Bluetooth Stereo Headset. When first opening the box, I must admit that they looked very comfortable. It was very well-cushioned in a soft leather. The ear pieces were very soft as well as the band. The buttons have a nice chrome finish to them, making…
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[Exclusive] Sprint to give customers Free Call Forwarding on Nov. 8th
Here is an excellent piece of information that was sent to the PPCG News Room today. According to an informed source, Sprint will be unleashing conditional (no answer/busy signal) free call forwarding to any phone number, including Google Voice. This means that any incoming call to your Sprint number that encounters a busy signal or…
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Droid Does Arrive Very Soon
It looks like Verizon’s Droid will be streeting on November 6, 2009. People have been receiving emails like the one below, Only a few more days until you can get the phone that’s location-aware. Voice-recognizing. App-mashing and multitasking. It can connect you to anyone or anything at break-neck speed. It’s more than a phone. It’s…
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DROID Does Times Square
The guys over at BGR have a source that states Verizon Wireless has plans to take over Time Square’s two largest digital billboards, the NASDAQ and Reuters signs. Verizon is planning on a “first-of-its-kind” interactive experience that will let people control the signs using only voice commands. The image above is a “sneak-peak”. Source: BGR
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Another Daylight Savings Time Update Needed? Even For WM6.5?!?
We’ve all known about the Windows Mobile DST update that’s been around since WM5, but apparently its still required, even for WM6.5 devices. It was updated August 2009 and is a cumulative rollup that includes all the changes released in earlier updates. “Your phone stores the predefined DST dates in a table in its memory.…
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Universal microUSB Mobile Phone Charger Standard Approved
Really? It took this long? The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has just approved the microUSB connector as the standard for GSM mobile phones. Before now, there were no obvious rules or guidelines in place, this allowed each phone manufacturer to select their method of connectivity (and frustrated consumers)! Now before you get your hopes up…
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PPCG Review: BookSync
I had the opportunity to take this little app for a test drive. For only $0.99, how could you go wrong right? Well, unfortunately this app needs some work. The functionality worked great. It automatically matched up my contacts with my Facebook contacts (by matching names), and I had the opportunity to sync birthdays and…
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HTC Dragon coming to Verizon
Verizon may be offering the 1GHz Snapdragon-based Android handset called the HTC Dragon in Q4 (yeah, that would make one heck of a Christmas present)! The CDMA version was recently spotted and may be branded at the Passion when it reaches Verizon’s stable. Read more at Endgadget Thanks to our PPCGeek member dmauin717 for this…
