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Steve Ballmer MWC Speech to be Broadcast Live via Internet
The man in charge of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, will be holding a live (as opposed to a dead?) press conference at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain. In his speech, it is certain he will speak on Windows Mobile 7 and My Phone 2.0. If you would like to watch it as it happens,…
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HTC and T-Mobile present: A Year of Rewards
HTC and T-Mobile are teaming up for their latest campaign to sell you phones, and this one is a dandy folks. Anybody who signs a new 2-year contract with T-Mobile between January 20th and March 23rd of this year and decides on getting either a HTC Touch Pro2, a T-Mobile Dash 3G, or a T-Mobile…
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Windows Mobile 7 has Gesture Control and runs on ARMv7?
Here are two possible “facts” that I have found about Windows Mobile 7. I found the first while looking at a slide entitled “Personalizing Mobile Technology To Enhance Learning And Organizational Skills” and it indicates that Windows Mobile 7 will support gesture control via it’s front-facing camera. The presenter of the slide, a Mr. Neil…
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Dual Boot Android & Windows Mobile
Have you tried one of the ports of Android on your Windows Mobile device? Do you hate having to boot into Windows just to launch Android? Developers at XDA have announced a dual boot launcher that is available now for QVGA (Vogue), VGA (Diamond, Touch Pro), and WVGA (Blackstone, Topaz, Xperia, etc). You must have…
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Google Voice in your Mobile Browser
Definition of workaround– A workaround is a bypass of a recognized problem in a system. A workaround is typically a temporary fix that implies that a genuine solution to the problem is needed. Frequently workarounds are as creative as true solutions, involving outside the box thinking in their creation. Google has definitely engaged in a…
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OpnMarket – Freeware Marketplace for Windows Mobile
Freewarepocketpc.net has launched a freeware marketplace for Windows Mobile, called OpnMarket. We haven’t tried this out yet, but it seems promising for freeware apps. Just as with other app catalogs, it will all depend on how many people actually use it. Features * – Showcase brings you the latest and most popular free apps *…
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Windows Live for Windows Mobile updated
Windows Live for Windows® phone has been updated to version 10.7.0061.0500.2000 from the previous version of 10.7.0060.2300.3000. Not a major update by any means, but an update it is. I can spot no changes, visually or otherwise, but if you do, please share in the comments below! You can go here to download via your…
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LG States Windows Mobile 7 Will Ship In 2010
LG just announced, at their CES event, that they will be shipping new Windows Mobile 6.5 AND Windows Mobile 7 devices this year. Source: MobileTechWorld
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Sprint To Debut WiMAX Phone Jan. 6th?
Eric Zeman from Information Week has put together some interesting leads which makes him believe LG will be debuting a Windows Mobile device to run on Sprint and Clearwire’s 4G WiMAX network. Sprint has scheduled a press conference on January 6th, the day before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). LG and Microsoft play a large…
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[PPCG REVIEW]- SlyDial
Have you ever been in a situation where you need to leave a voicemail message for somebody and you just do not want to deal with that person? If you have, then I recommend using SlyDial, a multi-platform application/service that allows you to connect straight to a person’s voicemail. There are two ways you can…
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HTC’s 2010 Roadmap
If you remember, last year PPCGeeks was lucky enough to be the first site to get HTC’s 2009 leaked roadmap and pictures of the devices. Unfortunately we weren’t quite as lucky this year as it was leaked to XDA-Developers first. We’re still here to bring you the goodies though. There’s not a whole lot of…
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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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iPhone Accounts for 55% of US Mobile Web Traffic
AdMob, recently acquired by Google, has released its latest report breaking down the US Mobile Web Traffic by OS. The winner, the iPhone, which accounts for 55% (including both the iPhone and iPod Touch). HTC is up, mainly because of its Android devices. RIM/Blackberry is also up, but very little. Nokia and Palm took the…
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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.…
