Sprint’s new Total Equipment Protection Application

Sprint recently announced a new Total Equipment Protection application that is very useful for smartphones if you pay for the TEP insurance plan. If you lose your phone you can locate, lock, clear and restore it all with this application. To give you peace of mind you can restore your information once you recover your handset so don’t think everything is gone forever. This is something Verizon and AT&T have already been successful with so maybe Sprint will be as well.

Sprint and LightSquared in discussion to share cell sites

Sprint and LightSquared Inc. are in discussion to share cell sites equipment, helping build out each others network. The deal, if it goes through, would allow LightSquared to roll out its network faster and cheaper then their current thought of methods. With Sprint planing to spend $5 billion in infrastructure upgrades in the near future, this would leave Sprint with extra capacity in which they can offer to LightSquared is what’s being said.

[DISCUSSION] Android Task Killers – Are they needed or not?

Let me just start by saying Android is not Windows Mobile. I’ve seen too many previous Windows Mobile owners treating Android the same way they did WM and this doesn’t have to be this way. I’ve also seen several new smartphone users who went straight to Android from a dumb phone and believe they have to rely on a task killer only because of what they have seen or heard themselves. You may agree or disagree at this point but continue reading to see why I am a firm believer in no task killer at all.

Sprint’s HTC Arrive – A hands on video of the copy & paste update

Available March 20th, this device is known as a Windows Phone 7 HTC 7 Pro in Europe and the HTC Arrive in the U.S. We just want to make sure you understand that first.

It sports a QWERTY tilt-o-matic keyboard, a 3.6″ WVGA display, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5 mega-pixel camera with flash and 720p video recording and 16GB’s of internal storage all for only $199.99 on a two-year contract, after a $100 mail-in rebate.

The PhoneFusion Visual Voicemail application pulled from the Android Market

Recently Google pulled one of the most popular Visual VoiceMail applications from Android Market, PhoneFusion. The reason is because they were said to be citing a violation of the developer payment rules. Basically, they were targeted for not processing application payments through Google Checko

First 3D Android smartphone in the world – LG Optimus

This is the first 3D Android powered smartphone in the world, in case you didn’t already know or hear about it. This 3D beast sports a dual-lens 3D camera, glasses-free LCD display and an HDMI / DLNA for sharing on 3D TV sets. This allows you to film your own 3D videos with the dual cameras on the back followed by watching them on your 3d TV.

HTC Arrive – Coming Soon to a Sprint Store Near You!

Today Sprint has announced its own edition of the HTC Pro 7, the HTC Arrive, making them the very first on the WP7 block for the CDMA market.

Get a keyboard on your iPhone 4 with Boxwave’s Keyboard Buddy case

The latest product found at Boxwave is a Keyboard Buddy case for the iPhone 4. This provides your iPhone with a physical keyboard through a blue-tooth connection, something most users want while others may not be interested. These cases are available now so read more to learn how to get one.

Some third-party retailers will no longer be offering AT&T’s products

A few third- party retailers such as Wirefly.com and LetsTalk.com have recently made announcements that soon they will no longer offer AT&T products. They will begin removing products now and by March you will no longer see AT&T devices on their websites. This isn’t their decision as far as we understand, it’s AT&T’s.

March 2nd – Apple will announce the iPad 2

Tired of your iPad yet? If so, the second one will be announced very soon so maybe you will see new features and updates. If you aren’t tired of yours that’s great, keep it. Apple is holding a special media event on March 2nd, 2011 in San Francisco, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Like Angry Birds? Try Stupid Zombies!!!

Most Android users have become addicted to the popular Rovio Mobile’s Angry Birds game, some still play and some have given up the addiction. Which ever category you fall under still leaves room to at least try this new game that’s out: Stupid Zombies with over 240 levels for Android 2+ or iPhone OS.

[Q&A] PPCGeeks Spotlight: zone23 – EVOzone ROM series

Hello Geeks and welcome to another edition of the PPCGeeks Spotlight where we get enlightening perspectives and great insight from well known community members, developers and leaders. In this edition we highlight a highly respected, well known and talented HTC EVOzone ROM series developer here at PPCGeeks.com, zone23.

Take a moment and review the following biography and q&a to get a taste of how PPCGeek members, developers and staff, together, make this an awesome forum.

AT&T’s Inspire 4G – Not 4G Speeds!?!?!

We’ve all seen the announcements where AT&T claimed the Inspire would be on of the first 4G (HSPA+) devices coming this year. Well, apparently they put the 4G name on it but forgot the network to go with it.

WINNER: The Powermat Kit for EVO!

WINNER: Congrats to Thacounty! Enjoy your EVO Powermat, we’ll be contacting you for address information!

Minor Windows Phone 7 Update Rolling Out Today

Now before you start jumping for joy, this is not the update we’re all waiting for. Its not NoDo, or the update that contains the performance enhancements and copy/paste, but instead, this is a minor update to the device infrastructure that helps improve the whole update process. Some of you Zune users out there might have seen an update to the Zune software that was pushed out a couple of weeks ago. This is probably inline with that. So now we’re just one step closer to getting NoDo! Read more…