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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,…
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PPCGeeks Unlocks Palm’s Treo Pro!!
PPCGeeks members cfay and cmonex have been locked in the PPCGeek basement for the past couple of weeks working on something wonderful. Well today they emerged from their self-imposed “prison” and what do you know…they’ve unlocked Palm’s Treo Pro!
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[Breaking] AT&T enabling MMS for iPhone 2 weeks early
From sea to shining sea, users across the U.S. are chiming in that MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) works for them. It looks like AT&T is slowly but surely enabling MMS for the iPhone.
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Qilin on Dopod
Your crack PPCGeeks News Staff has recently uncovered the following information regarding a new device named Qilin. This will be released in China on Dopod only. Check out the details below:
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Breaking News – Unlimited Calls
A ‘Geeker has given BigDiesel07 confirmation that Sprint is launching a new service tomorrow. This service, avaiable for anybody who has the Unlimited Data Plan, will get unlimited calls to ANY mobile number, not just Sprint phone numbers. It is called ‘Any Mobile, Any Time’. It will only be available on the new everything data…
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The $100 Dollar Offer.
Just hours after posting a great offer on their website, Sprint has pulled it. The offer? Switch to Sprint and receive $100 of service free – If you buy the Palm Pre. Why? James Fisher, a Sprint spokesman, said in a statement: “After further internal review today, the offer of a port-in service credit of…
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The New Toshiba TG01
As most of know, Windows Mobile has been reborn in 6.5 as Windows Phone. Today, Toshiba went a little further by announcing the new TG01 Windows Phone, a spin off of the TG01. The Difference? It comes with Windows Phone 6.5.
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The Chinless Hero
Update 9/3/09 6:00pm CST: Sprint chinless Hero Video Here Update 9/3/09 10:00am CST: Sprint has published a Press Release Here Update 9/3/09 8:30am CST: Sprint has officially announced the Hero will be released on October 11th for $179 with a $100 mail-in rebate and a two-year Simply Everything plan (sorry SERO users). Source: CNET We…
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HTC Touch2 Full Touch Experience and First with Windows Mobile 6.5
HTC announced today the release of the HTC Touch 2 available in the US on October 8. The is new device is compact and will be one of the first devices on the market with Windows Mobile 6.5. Users will be able to utilize all the new services available with Microsoft’s newest mobile operating system…
