You can now buy software and accessories for your PPC devices right here at PPCGeeks (powered by MobiHand)! We will offer special promotion codes, which will be posted on the News page, and occasionally in our forums for members-only.

Our first coupon code is to celebrate our grand opening! Use code PPCGeeksOpen at checkout and get 20% off of ALL software purchases through October 9th!

Visit store.ppcgeeks.com to see all the great deals! (or use the Store tab in the upper-right)

Also, a new feature that MobiHand offers is “Deal Of The Day“. There will be a selected software title available every 24 hours at 50% off! You must select your device while in the store to see the deal. You can only use one discount per purchase (so you can’t get the 50% off plus the 20% grand opening coupon).

The store accounts are NOT linked to your forum accounts, so you must create a new account in the store.

After months of waiting, Google now supports email synchronization via its push service, Google Sync.

Google Sync Push Mail is here!

Using Windows Mobile’s Microsoft Exchange service, your favorite windows mobile device can now synchronize its content with Google Contacts, Calender, and even Mail now via Push Mail!

For some time now, Google has been offering its Synchronization service (in the form of a Exchange Server in Windows Mobile’s Case) to mobile users for some time in the common Google BETA phase. Over time, these features have accumulated to include Calendar appointments synchronization, Contacts Synchronization, and email all through Gmail. One can now go completely cloud with these new opportunities and options!

As said above, this service takes the form of your exchange service. This means (If you already have) push email setup, you cannot set this up! This also requires activesync software.

Note: In order to sync, you must have Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and Google Mail all setup under your account name. If you do not want to use any of the above services mentioned, or do not have them set up, do not try to sync them or you will get an error!

go here to get started

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Updated September 18:

Microsoft has offered some clarification on this issue:

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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 or has unforeseen effects, Marketplace has the capability to remotely uninstall these applications. While we hope to avoid this scenario, we will make refunds available in such cases.

As part of their upcoming launch of Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft will be including a kill switch. However, unlike Apple, who has a similar tool for their App Store, Microsoft is removing the application from the phone if the application becomes unapproved in the Market.

In the past, any application downloaded to a Windows Mobile phone would continue to be there, regardless of the application. It was possible for the creator to kill the application if they so chose, but it was common knowledge that the user who downloaded that application still had the rights to use it.

While any user or developer who goes through Marketplace will agree to such a feature when they accept the EULA, this will create some serious questions when a paid-for app is wiped clean. Will a user who paid for an app receive a refund if their application is wiped clean? Will the developer or Microsoft be responsible for the refund?

Source: Geekzone.co.nz via msmobiles.com

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 that going forward, our roadmap will include only Palm WebOS-based devices.”

Does this mean the end of the Treo line? Not necessarily, Rubinstein prefaced the above comment by emphasizing how well the WebOS can fit for business. This may mean we’ll soon see a Treo sporting WebOS!

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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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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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 which makes it compatible to U.S. networks.

The Android SDK is now available for donwload.  The 1.6 SDK requires a new version of Android Development Tools.

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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, and share media in a beautiful, fast, easy-to-use application.

For the full press release and more information, please visit here

UPDATE: A member of the site and a worker for Kinoma dropped us an update in the comments. The big announcement will be postponed until later this month.

Hello,

Sorry to disappoint, but we’re going to be doing the launch a bit later this month.

It turns out everybody and their mother (not to mention the behemoth that is The Beatles) thought it would be fun to launch products on 9/9/09, and we want to make sure it gets the attention it deserves.

Thanks!

– Charles

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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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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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