Posted: February 9th, 2010 at 10:58 am EST by BigDiesel07
According to research firm IDC, RIM has sold more BlackBerry Curves than the Apple iPhone 3GS in the 4th Quarter of 2009. Remembering that the Curve is offered on 7 different carriers as opposed to the iPhone’s exclusive deal with AT&T, this is still a momentous occasion as iPhone sales increased by 100%, to 8.7 million units sold. If Apple were to sell the iPhone on multiple carriers, these ranking would be different. The Motorola Droid, a Verizon Wireless exclusive, came in third place with the Apple iPhone 3G and Blackberry Pearl rounding out the top 5.
After the jump is the full list of Top 10. There was no device ranked in the top 10 for Windows Mobile, although Palm’s webOS came in 8th with the Palm Pre.
Source- FierceWirless
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Posted: February 8th, 2010 at 10:26 pm EST by Laos101
Ever wanted to LISTEN to your news, rather read it? The PPCGP, Pocket PC Geeks Podcast, is here!
Rather than read the news, why not listen to it? You can tune in THURSDAY NIGHT at our ustream page, or listen sometime tomorrow via our RSS Feed!!
We used to meet on Wednesday but it isn’t working out, so the show will now host at 10:00 PM EST on Thursday. A little later to accommodate our Midwestern and Pacific guests. If you can keep your eyes open you Need to show up! The PPCGP is an experience that any mobile user should see!
Some of our topics for Thursday
Windows Mobile 7, don’t say it’s so!
ClamTXT, is it fair?
Motorola Milestone, how’s it sound Canada?
WinMo clings 18%, but the loss since September is equal to RIM?! Palm takes a bigger blow, perhaps there’s a bigger picture?
WMC not far away, what are the major carriers planinng?WM7? HSDPA? 4G?
It looks like Iphone is clinging to AT&T! Was there an under the table deal?
The Nook is in the wild!!
Don’t miss this AMAZING episode THURSDAY NIGHT, at 10:00 PM EST! (9PM CST, 7PM PST), via Ustream . This is not one to miss!
Be sure to also catch us on twitter! See our Forum Post for more information!
Posted: February 6th, 2010 at 9:35 pm EST by BigDiesel07
Do you love to pester people with text messages without being identified? What if you could carpet bomb somebody to the tune of 600 texts at once and there would be no way to trace it back to you? At clamtxt.com, you can do just that!
What is it exactly? I’ll let Clamfather, one of the founding clamsman, tell you.
ClamTXT is a web application that will send text messages in batch to a phone number that you choose. How many text messages sent depends on your membership status. There is also a possible custom message, reserved for registered and donating users. When you submit a number, and our bot rolls around to your entry, a message will be sent based on your registration status. Anonymous and registered users will have a link back to the site in the text message. All submissions will have a random character string on it, to avoid filtering of duplicate messages.
Does that sound enticing enough? If so, make the jump to read more!
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Posted: February 6th, 2010 at 2:31 am EST by MightyMike
With the Mobile World Congress event making its way around the corner, we can all be for certain that it is inevitable for Windows Phone 7 to make its long awaited debut. That being said, there have been rumours floating about on what Windows Phone 7 might actually be? For months, almost a year we have seen images being leaked all over the interwebs and although we can all admit we were quite excited, the chances of it looking so or even being real for that matter were highly unlikely. Wait no more! PPCGeeks has some truly amazing information on what the Windows Phone 7 platform will deliver to our beloved handheld devices. All information detailed within may not be entirely official, although it is definitely the closest information we have heard on actually being real. Without wasting anymore time, lets jump into the nitty gritty.
-At the Mobile World Congress event on February 15th, 2010, Windows Phone 7 will be unveilved, although at this time plans are only to unveil the user interface of the new platform . Specific indepth functionality of the device will most likely not be shown.
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Posted: February 5th, 2010 at 1:47 pm EST by mindfrost82
Back in January, we reported on a rumor that At&t was getting the Milestone (GSM version of the Droid). It appears this version of the Milestone is headed for Telus. While Telus hasn’t officially announced a release date for the Milestone, Best Buy Canada has put up a Pre-Order page that gives us a February 18th date. At&t users could be happy to hear this as well, since Telus supports the At&t 3G bands of 850/1900MHz. Of course you’ll have to pay full price for it and unlock it, but given how popular the Droid has been on Verizon, it may be worth it if you want to experience full 3G with Android on At&t and don’t want to wait for the Motorola Backflip or one of the 5 Android devices At&t promised is coming in the first half of 2010..
Source: Engadget (Thanks forum user Deimoss for the tip)
Posted: February 4th, 2010 at 6:57 pm EST by Laos101
Ever wanted to LISTEN to your news, rather read it? The PPCGP, Pocket PC Geeks Podcast, is here! And we have a new date and time!
Rather than read the news, why not listen to it? You can tune in THURSDAY NIGHT at our ustream page, or listen sometime tomorrow via our RSS Feed!!
We used to meet on Wednesday but it isn’t working out, so the show will now host at 10:00 PM EST on Thursday. A little later to accommodate our Midwestern and Pacific guests. If you can keep your eyes open you Need to show up! The PPCGP is an experience that any mobile user should see!
Some of our topics for Thursday
A DETAILED look at all of the Touch Pro2 ROMS, we’ll put them to the test!
Windows Mobile 7 Phone rumors spill in!
Is HTC Lying to us?
Is Zune prepping for a Zune Phone?
Welcome to Walmart, interested in our special on the Nexus?
Microsoft goes toe to toe with its Marketplace Devs
Is Microsoft moving Windows Mobile to a new Zone?
Iphone about to be a free bird?!
Palm revives within Verizon!
Don’t miss this AMAZING episode THURSDAY NIGHT, at 10:00 PM EST! (9PM CST, 7PM PST), via Ustream . This is not one to miss!
Be sure to also catch us on twitter! See our Forum Post for more information!
Posted: February 4th, 2010 at 8:56 am EST by mindfrost82
In case you didn’t know, Symbian is the primary OS on most Nokia phones (with the exception of the newer Maemo-based ones) and is the most popular OS worldwide, with over 330 million devices sold in 2009 alone. In June 2008, Nokia bought Symbian and created the Symbian Foundation which is comprised of Nokia, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, AT&T, and Texas Instruments. Nokia has been the primary developer of Symbian, but they plan to reduce their part to less than 50% by the second half of 2011.
By making the OS open source, they’re hoping it can compete further with the iPhone and Android, which is also open source. The source code should be available later today on the Symbian Foundation’s website. They hope this move will also help increase the production of 3rd party apps and improve security of the OS.
Source: GSMArena
Posted: February 3rd, 2010 at 10:00 pm EST by BigDiesel07
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 Shadow is eligible for up to $500 in rewards. But instead of the usual “blah-de-bleh”, these rewards are worthwhile (for some at least).
As seen below, one reward is awarded each month. It begins in April of this year and continues on until March 2011. Some of the rewards include-
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- June (2010): 40% discount on phone accessories at HTC.com (up to $32 discount)—US customers only. Puerto Rico customers eligible to receive a $25 flight discount on any airline.
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Does this entice you enough to switch to T-Mobile? Or are you waiting for the HTC HD2 to come out before making the move? Either way, this is a creative way to get new customers.
If you are interested, go here for more details!
Full list of rewards after the jump!
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Posted: February 3rd, 2010 at 10:02 am EST by mindfrost82
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Motorola just announced another Android device coming to the market, the Motorola Devour. Its coming to Verizon Wireless “soon”. Rumor also has it as having WiFi, a 3MP camera and a 320×480 screen.
“To get the most from Motorola DEVOUR, customers will need to subscribe to a Nationwide Talk or Nationwide Talk & Text plan and a Data Package for smartphones. Nationwide Talk plans begin at $39.99 monthly access, and Nationwide Talk & Text plans begin at $59.99 monthly access. A Data Package for smartphones is $29.99 for unlimited monthly access.”
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Features:
- Touch-sensitive navigation pad
- 3.1” capacitive touch screen
- Pre-loaded applications such as Gmail, Google Talk™, YouTube™, Google Search™ and Google Maps™ with Google Maps Navigation.
- Android Market™ gives users access to more than 20,000 applications.
- Happenings Widget – MOTOBLUR automatically pushes status updates, wall posts and photo updates from popular social networking sites to the Happenings Widget on the home screen. Customers can flick through the latest updates and fire back responses using the slide-out full QWERTY keyboard.
- Universal Inbox – MOTOBLUR gathers texts, social network messages and e-mails into one home screen widget for quick response.
- Back-Up and Security – Contacts, log-in information, home screen customizations, e-mail and social network messages are backed up automatically on the secure MOTOBLUR portal. The portal also allows customers to use the phone’s fully integrated aGPS to help locate the phone if misplaced. Remote wipe easily clears information from a lost device.
- 8 GB microSD™ card pre-installed
- Bluetooth® profiles supported: A2DP, HID, HSP, HFP, AVRCP and GAP
Source: Motorola Media Center
Posted: February 2nd, 2010 at 10:48 pm EST by mindfrost82
The early adopters of the Nexus One will be getting an over-the-air update this week that will enable some nice features and include some bug fixes.
Some of the updates and new features include:
Google Goggles: this mobile application will now be available directly on your device by launching it from your All Apps menu. Just use your Nexus One camera to start searching the web.
Google Maps: the Maps application with be updated to a new version, Google Maps 3.4, which will include:
- Starred items synchronized with maps.google.com – access your favorite places from your phone or computer
- Search suggestions from your personal maps.google.com history – makes it easy to search for places you’ve searched for before
- Night mode in Google Maps Navigation – automatically changes your screen at night for easier viewing and driving
Pinch-to-zoom functionality: devices will now include a new pinch-to-zoom mechanism in the phone’s Browser, Gallery and Maps applications
3G connectivity: we will provide a general fix to help improve 3G connectivity on some Nexus One phone
The 3G connectivity fix should help those that have had a difficult time connecting to T-Mobile’s 3G network, even when they’ve had another phone connected sitting right next to it. The other important update is the muti-touch, “pinch-to-zoom”. In the beginning, there was debate if multi-touch was a hardware limitation or if it was a software restriction. This answers that question.
Manual update instructions after the break (thanks NIKKG).
Source: BGR
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