PPCGeeks.com has been around for about 5 years and has gone through many changes over those years. We’ve had several staff members come and go and have gone through quite a few style changes on the forums. We also have several ROM chefs, theme makers, kitchen developers and even application developers who are very active on the site.
Some say there isn’t much development for Windows Mobile anymore. That’s not the case here. If you’re looking to have some fun with your WM phone and don’t already know about us, you have a lot to learn. If you still have WM and are already a member of our site, we appreciate it and hope you enjoy every bit of what you learn while you’re here.
We will give you a few names of WM developers here at PPCGeeks in case you don’t already know. Be sure to check out their work here on the site in the Windows Mobile section or just click on their names listed below. Keep in mind some of them may have moved on to other platforms, but most are still supporting their WM ROM’s.
Here at PPCGeeks, we have O.a.T, Ptfdmedic, Cmonex, 2Bunny, vin255764 , chris1683, zone23, gguruusa, ImCoKeMan, sharkie405, olipro and also tinkerbell. You will see a Q&A with Tinkerbell and the others very soon! Those are just a small amount of the ROM developers I am very familiar with. There are a hand full of others, it’s just hard to keep up. Forgive me for leaving anyone out!
Thanks for taking the time to read this and understanding that PPCGeeks has always been the home to Windows Mobile fans and ROM developers. We appreciate all the wonderful comments and support we get from our users and staff. Windows Mobile users, get to flashing!
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It’s nice to see that development ha not stopped for WM. I got my start here when the first kitchens were out for the PPC6700 and this site, with it’s great staff and developers helped me to get the most out of every WM phone I owned. Kudos to those still developing!!
winmo will always have a place in my heart.
I echo guitardoc’s sentiments. I started with the PPC6700 a few years ago and didn’t realize what it could do until a friend pointed me to PPCGeeks. I don’t know what I’d do without my Touch Pro2 that has been enhanced several times, thanks to the wizards here. I hope the great work continues. Thanks, all!
That’s nice to hear. I was beginning to wonder if they were gonna change the name of the site to “AndroidGeeks” or “ApplePhoneGeeks” or somethin’, LOL!
Sorry to always point these out, but “chefs” is spelled wrong ☺.
For the rest of everyone, if you have a Diamond, come on down to the Diamond upgrades section of the forum. All the chefs could use some more people to download and flash their ROMs and provide feeback. I know those pesky Sprint contracts may have already come to a close and you may be eligible for an upgrade to that every fancy Touch Pro 2 (which is still an excellent WM choice) or that “cool” Android device, but we need as many people as we can on the Diamond for as long as possible.
Thanks for your support.
- 2 Bunny
I agree with you guys, I started my WinMo days with the APACHE (PPC6700) and I have now the TP and TP2. I have also bought Android phones but WinMo will always be with me… It taught me so much and the posibilities are endless… I want WP7 and will have the arrive but… I will never part from my TP (I think I can live without the TP2 but the TP has a dedicated CTRL key and TAB key…) jejeje
I’ve moved to Android and whilst I’ll never touch a WP7, WM will always be special to me and I hope that it’s developed for, for many years to come.
@Frogger,
I’ve moved on to Android too over a year ago, but there isn’t a day that I still don’t reminisce about the good ol WM days on here. I been using WM phones since I got my first one back in 2004 (Motorola MPX200), & when I left Cingular for Sprint, got the PPC6700, but didn’t know about this site until I got my Vogue back in ’08. Learned a whole lot over the past 3 years and PPCGeeks is to thank for that!
Wow!!! Thank you for the great article Courtney1985!! It is so good to hear that those of us that still love these devices will have a place here at ppcgeeks! Woo!!!
After a few comments on this site and even how I personally feel, I think something like this needed to be said and thanks Courtney !
I was also feeling it too, where This beloved Windows Moible site changed and really started catering more towards Android and iPhone users and seemed to almost forget about Window Mobile.
Everyone who moved on and likes to flame WM, PPCGeeks= PocketPC Geeks, AKA Windows Mobile Geeks. PocketPC was the name before Windows Mobile.
If it was not for Windows Mobile/PocketPC, this site would not even exist. Keep that in mind before you start flaming on the Windows Phone 7 threads.
Do you mean WM and WP are not the same?
@chong67,
Windows Mobile and PocketPC are the same thing. 6.5 can be call Windows Phone but, Windows Phone 7 is a different child all together
I think we all started out with WM in the past, however, I am not going to lie, WM sucked. The only reason we used it was because at the time we had no choice in smart phones until iOS and Android finally set us free. I remember having to reset my WM phones almost everyday because it would lock up or something would go wrong with it. Even playing a few mp3′s would cause issues with it. I barely even got to use my phone, it seemed all I was doing was installing new ROMs from Mighty Mike or Energy. I think thats the reason I discovered PPCGEEKS and XDA, it was because the WM phones sucked so bad that I look for help to fix issues.
All I can say is thank God for alternatives, I sure wouldn’t want to go back to those days. Its like going from a Windows 7 to DOS.
I will miss many things about the WM system.
Mostly Garmin! LOL
I am very disappointed that WP7 seemd to throw all the GOOD away in favor of being more like Apple.
And one day I expect MS will learn from it and bring themselves back into the Smartphone world.
If Motorola can do it so too could MS.
Just not going to mhappen with WP7
I do however miss my Kitchen!
Long live Mighty Mike!! The true KING of Windows Mobile Development!!
I guess everyone forgot about the original Window Mobile developers
Why don’t someone do research into the HTC Vogue and what put WM and HTC at the top for awhile.
Mighty Mike came about 2 years after us. None of the developers today matched any of the talent we had back then.
Make me extremely sad to see that people don’t know the history… :’(
@Whosdaman,
Some of us do!
But then again we are all old farts now and our memory sometimes gets affected by Oldheimers disease!
LOL
Some of us know the history bro, and we appreciate everyone who helped make our WM phones truly usable back in the day!
I will miss WM because of TomTom, Garmin and Igo8. 3 GPS on my phone. Now when WP7 will have this, then its forgiven.
I know there are a few that still remember the good ole times. But now you have all these Might Mike fanboys.
Remember the WDM Diamond Themed ROM? Or before that was my infamous funny name ROMs that everyone loved.
Or DHarvey’s Vista ROM? JD’s clean ROMs? OMJ’s ROMs? VetVitto’s ROMs?
Or what about the last great developer, NFSFAN? His ROMs revolutionized Windows Mobile.
@Whosdaman, OMJ’s 6.1 ROM was the very first ROM I ever flashed on a phone (Vogue) cause Sprint was BS’n with the official update & I wanted GPS ASAP, & I still think you had the best Vogue ever man! Also we can’t forget No2Chem and all he did for the Mogul, & the most important, Helmi C, for he made all of this even possible! Good memories man, good memories =)
@piscesjoey, definitively. n2c did amazing work on Mogul/Titan
Vetvito’s ROMS were clean man… and so were (and still are) NRGZ28 ROMS… Mighty Mike was cool… NFSFAN’s came out with the MANILA LOCK SCREEN SLIDER first in his ROM… that was AWESOME!!!
I miss those devices… cant wait to start tearing apart the new ones… jejeje
@mapaz04, Me too!! Come on Verizon!! =]=]
well, i remember the good old days when i started off with the Palm III as my pda and the moved to the IPAQ. In those days WinCE was not as OPEN as it is today. the platform was pretty much locked down as wp7 is today.
Microsoft did something no one else thought to do and that was going with a color screen. palm was busy perfecting the cabbage colored screen. Then came the palm 500 series with color.
Since then i have had the palmOS (all versions), wince (all versions), webOS, Ipod touch (IOS) and Android. Nothing has been more productive than WM in my opinion when it comes to running my business.
I look forward to the porting of wp7 to my EVO or Sprint coming out with a slab wp7 device with a minimum 4″ screen.
thank you, come again!
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