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Hello Users!
Last week we asked you to show your support for Didiom Pro and our review of it by commenting on us what you thought of it in order to get a chance to win some FREE didiom keys!
BELOW, We’ve posted the winners, whom we will soon be emailing their keys, congratulations guys!
Many HTC Incredible users aren’t happy with their battery life while using the OEM battery provided by HTC. After seeing many complaints, users are saying the battery is not so incredible. This has lead me to find a solution to these complaints. I, PPCGeeks Owner, Wideawake have personally taken time to compare the OEM battery and a Seidio battery provided by our Mobihand Store on PPCGeeks.com. Read on for the details of the tests I ran with each battery.
Time for another high-end Android phone to join the market, this time its by Samsung and reportedly coming to At&t. Back in January, we reported on the Samsung Galaxy, with recent reports showing the Galaxy S is coming to T-Mobile this year. Now there’s another Samsung device, which is very similar to the Galaxy S, dubbed the i897. Read more…
While most of us are looking ahead to Android Froyo, the Evo 4G, and Windows Phone 7, LG has announced it latest Windows Mobile 6.5.3 phone, the Fathom. While there’s been custom ROMs running WM6.5.3 for a while now, this will be the first US Carrier official release of the operating system, and its coming to Verizon Wireless. Read more for the specs and press release…
For those of you that don’t know, Froyo, Android 2.2, has been making its way to Nexus One users since last night. It was first reported by a user at TechCrunch, then someone at Engadget. Twitter was a flutter with users saying they received the OTA update as well. It only took about a half a day, but the users at XDA and MoDaCo finally got a system dump from someone and was able to put together some some updates for us to use. Read on for more details.
Sprint likes to advertise that it is leading innovation by starting the nation’s first 4G network with WiMAX, but now it appears that they’re second guessing themselves. With the other three major U.S. carriers confirming they’re going with LTE as their 4G solution, Sprint is probably getting worried about their decision to go with WiMAX, which would leave them the only carrier with that technology as of now. On Wednesday, Sprint issues a Request For Proposal (RFP) from 4G equipment manufacturers, which included LTE. Read more…
Google’s putting on the largest developer event of the year, May 19th-20th 2010, The Google I/O 2010. While they’ll be discussing various Google apps such as Google Chrome, the Google API’s, GWT, App Engine, and open web technologies, we’re mainly interested in Android. This year there will be about 80 sessions, more than 5,000 developers, and over 100 demonstrations. Some big announcements are expected relating to Android, such as Froyo (Android 2.2) and Flash support. Read more for the notes as we find them…
Well it seems like Sprint is preparing for battle by starting to load up its Sprints stores with the highly anticipated HTC Evo. According to my source deep inside Sprint some sprint stores have begun receiving shipments of the Evo. According to her they will open most stores hours early (hers is opening at 8am where the normal time is 10am) and are anticipating selling out that day. Make sure you guys know exactly where you plan on getting your Evo’s on June 4th they are anticipating to sell out. Best Buy is taking pre-orders for a $50 deposit and The Shack aka RadioShack is supposedly taking pre orders soon.
Here are some pics I took while playing with the phone.
While most of us are CDMA users here, this is still for a good cause. As you probably know, XDA has been working on porting the Windows Phone 7 ROM to the HTC HD2. Da_G has done most of the work on this, but he needs a few things before he can get any further. As most developers know, its difficult to work on something without actually having a device to test it on. So, XDA has started a donations thread for this to try to get Da_G a HD2 and a Trace 32 tool so he can find the JTAG. These are estimated to be about $1400. As of now, the donations total about $630. This is no guarantee that he’ll be able to get a fully working port, but he can’t get any further without these tools. Read more for the links…
Didiom was founded by Ran Assaf who has spent years working in the communications industry. His work was soon joined with Peng Li and Lindsey Liao to develop the Didiom software
Didiom is a music streaming program for Windows Mobile Professional and Blackberry devices. Didiom streams the music from your internet connected PC directly to your phone with minimal setup and comes in two varieties: Didiom, which allows you to stream five tracks at the standard 64kbs and Didiom Pro allows you to stream unlimited audio files. Pro will cost either $0.99/month or $9.99/year
Ever wonder what’s great about Didiom Pro? Read on to find out, and you can also have a chance to win one of TEN Didiom Pro Keys!
By now, we all should know that Verizon’s 4G plans are to go with LTE (Long Term Evolution) instead of WiMAX like Sprint. Sprint’s first 4G-compatible device, the Evo 4G, will be available in a few weeks. Verizon’s CEO, Lowell McAdam, has confirmed that Verizon will be releasing three to five LTE-compatible handsets by May 2011. He wasn’t able to confirm which manufacturers will produce those devices, but he said “all the major manufacturers we’re talking to today are making the transition to LTE”.
This weekend, the folks at XDA got their hands on a new Windows Phone 7 leaked ROM, which supposedly comes from a device codenamed the HTC Mondrian on Cingular USA. This is a bit strange since Cingular has been long gone and it has been At&t Mobility since 2007. The above image was extracted from oemavatar.cab. This could either be a generic image being used as a placeholder, or it could actually be the Mondrian, which has been referenced throughout the ROM. In addition to that image, they believe it has a 4.3″ WVGA display from Optrex and a 1.3GHz QSD8650A/B Snapdragon (the new 45nm) processor.
Most of us probably recall watching a demo video of what the original NVIDIA Tegra chip was capable of since it had most of us drooling over the graphics. There’s only been a couple of phones that have used this chip, the newest being Microsoft’s Kin One and Kin Two. During NVIDIA’s financial report, their CEO said that their upcoming Tegra 2 chip would be available in Android-powered devices. He said it should be available by the third version of Android, which should be around the end of the year. Read more…
HTC has announced its newest Android handset, the Wildfire. Its an entry-level Android 2.1 device with a smaller screen and a slower processor than the Desire and Legend. It features a 3.2″ QVGA capacitive touchscreen, 5MP camera with LED flash and auto-focus, and the usual Bluetooth, GPS, and WiFi. It has the MSM7225 chipset clocked in at 528MHz with 384MB of RAM and 512MB of ROM. Its almost like a miniature HTC Desire with the optical trackpad. Read more for hands-on video.
Hello PPCGeeks Readers! What’s come through the mailbox is BIG, and we mean Real Big!
Through an anonymous contact, we’ve received several PDFs that include special Windows Phone 7 Development, Usage, and Customization Content.
The content is very large and includes a wide amount of information we have yet to completely unravel and detail upon, but some of the exterior facts are VERY promising.
for all of our staff mobile IMing needs!