The Pocket PC Geeks Podcast for 04/29/2010!
The PPCGP, All the Mobile News You’ll Ever Need!
Episode 21,
for 04/29/2010!
Archives for April, 2010
It’s a Bird; It’s a Plane; NO! It’s The Incredible!
That’s Right! Today, Verizon has announced their Nexus One-esque device to the public for purchase: The DROID Incredible, by HTC.
The DROID Incredible is another Android Smartphone to be added to the list of available Verizon devices by HTC. it sports a 3.7 inch WVGA screen, and capacitive touch screen. Unlike its other known counterparts, it does not have a trackball or touchpad. Instead, it sports a new, yet ingenious optical trackball system, that should be an interested try out.
STAY TUNED! Because next week, We will be doing an unboxing video of this glamarous device!
Read on for the Press Release!
Skyfire 2.0 Available For Android
We already knew Skyfire was working on an Android version of their popular Windows Mobile browser, and that it was in Alpha testing. Now, on the same day that the Droid Incredible hits Verizon stores, Skyfire has released a public beta, available in the Market and on the web. The big news is the new SkyBar, which allows for automatic Flash video streaming, where normally there would be broken video links. It also has some social networking integration.
Moto posting Profit in Q1
This morning Motorola (NYSE: MOT) released their first quarter financials. Motorola is a huge player in the commercial sector for two way radios, and other types communication devices. In the early 2000′s they also had great success with mobile phones. Phones like the V-Series and the RAZR, due to lack of innovation Motorola lost profit and market share. With the launch of …
The P in HP may now stand for Palm!!
The boards of directors at HP and Palm have come to an agreement on a buyout of Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) by HP (Nasdaq: HPQ). The negotiated price for the buyout is estimated at a whopping $1.2 billion at $5.70 per share of Palm’s common stock in cash. This comes when HP is looking to enter the smartphone and tablet …
T-Mobile Eliminates Data Overage For Some Users
Recently quite a few carriers have started putting caps on their data usage, most of which are set to 5GB. When you go over this cap, you’re usually charged overage fees, which can add up very quickly, especially for multimedia phones and smartphones. Now, instead of charging overage fees, T-Mobile will be throttling your connection speed once you hit the cap.
Nokia N8 Announced
While we don’t have a big Nokia following here, the specs of this phone might amaze you. Nokia’s new flagship phone, and the first Symbian^3 device has some of the highest specs of any phone on the market today. First of all it has a 3.5″ capacitive touchscreen, which is a bit on the small side compared to most newer Windows Mobile and Android phones. The impressive specs are the 12MP wide-angle camera (with Carl Zeiss optics and a Xenon flash), HDMI outpout, 720P video capture and decoding, and Dolby Digital Plus decoding. It also features 5-band WCDMA 3G support that we have not yet seen on ANY other smartphone to date. This means you can buy it and use it with either AT&T or T-Mobile here in the US and get 3G data speeds. The price is €370 without a contract.
No More Nexus One On Verizon!
If you’ve been waiting for the Google Nexus One to become available on Verizon Wireless, Google just spoiled your plans. If you remember, back when the Nexus One was launched for T-Mobile, they said a Verizon version would be available this Spring. Now Google is telling you to just buy a Droid Incredible by HTC instead. According to them, the Droid Incredible is a “cousin of the Nexus One that is similarly feature-packed”.
Lenovo to take over Palm?
As Palm continues to struggle financially, a buyer has yet to emerge out of the thinning list of buyers, but on Friday, rumors began to circulate that Hong Kong based PC maker Lenovo may be considering making an offer.
The Reuters report on Friday of the potential offer gave Palm’s stock a nice 5% boost (although shares had risen as much as 7% before retreating).
Android Market on track to surpass Apple App Store
Google’s efforts to market the Android OS platform to software developers appears to be working. A strong open source community combined with developer events and free developer phones have lead to droves of applications popping up in the official android marketplace. It’s no wonder Steve Jobs and Apple have recently been in the news seemingly …
04/22/10 The Pocket PC Geeks Podcast!
The PPCGP, All the Mobile News You’ll Ever Need!
Episode 20,
for 04/22/2010!
Review: Trip Advisor mobile
Recently the people at TripAdvisor.com have created a mobile version of there web site. For those of you who don’t know Trip Advisor (TA) is a site that rate hotels, restaurants, bars, resorts and any other place of tourism. They have user generated reviews to give you their personal of the location. Now some of …
How to: Prevent cracks of your windows phone applications
Following is an article authored for PPCGeeks News by our very own member, Ziggy471. He has many years of experience in computer programming and coding, and has written the following to help both aspiring and veteran mobile application developers deal with an issue that may arise. So you have decided to download the Windows Phone …
Google Gives Voice To Google Maps For (Windows) Mobile
In the days before prominent instant messaging, there was this chat technology called IRC. In IRC, it was possible to be given voice by the operators of the channel. How does this relate to anything mobile news related? Google (the operator) has given voice to those who run Google Maps on Windows Mobile in the …
Dell Thunder, Lightning, Flash & Smoke!
Dell hasn’t really been big in the smartphone scene, but that looks like its about to change. The interwebs are all a flutter with leaks of 4 new Dell smartphones, running Windows Phone 7 and Android. The specs on some of these are quite impressive, and the images are even better. Most of them appear to be GSM/HSDPA compatible, so we’re sorry Verizon and Sprint (and other CDMA) users. Looks like At&t and T-Mobile might be getting some devices to compete with the Droid Incredible and Evo. More specs and images after the break.
