Category: General

  • Motorola highly recommends buying an HTC?

    Motorola responds to their frustrated Milestone customer base by encouraging them to buy a phone made by another manufacturer: “We understand there is a community of developers interested in going beyond Android application development and experimenting with Android system development and re-flashing phones. For these developers, we highly recommend obtaining either a Google ADP1 developer…

  • The Pocket PC Geeks Podcast for 03/04/10!

    The PPCGP, All the Mobile News You’ll Ever Need! Episode 14, for 03/04/2010!

  • ***CONTEST*** WIN A $25 ZAGG GIFT CARD!!!!

    Hello Geekers! We wanted to just let you know we just did a installation guide / review of the ZAGG InvisibleSHIELD over @ Youtube: http://bit.ly/PPCGZAGG We also wanted to thank ZAGG greatly for their efforts and offering us the review models, and the contest they have provided goods for! You could win a TWENTY FIVE…

  • Photon – The Old WM7 Interface

    We all remember the leaked images of Windows Mobile 7 (some pictured above) that looked like a glorified Windows Mobile 6/6.5. According to Microsoft MVP Brandon Miniman and some members at XDA, the current Windows Phone 7 interface that we know as MetroUI is only about 18 months old. This would explain why the version…

  • Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement

    There was a big news story today that involved two of the biggest phone manufacturers in the world, HTC and Apple. As the morning went on, the story kept developing, so we finally have the details for you. Apple is suing HTC over “20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and…

  • The Pocket PC Geeks Podcast for 02/25/10!

    The PPCGP, All the Mobile News You’ll Ever Need! Episode 14, for 02/25/2010!

  • Welcome To The New PPCGeeks!

    If you haven’t noticed, PPCGeeks has changed out style throughout the site. We’ve were rocking the old style for about 6 months, but we weren’t completely satisfied with it, so over the past month, we’ve been working hard and bringing you something hopefully everyone will enjoy. We will try to go over all of the…

  • The Pocket PC Geeks Podcast! 02/25/2010!

    Mobile News You Need! For Februray 18th, 2010 Episode 12

  • New Bluetooth headset is world’s first to supports apps

    Bluetrek has raised the bar for all Bluetooth headset manufacturers and may have just changed the way that consumers look at Bluetooth headsets in general, with the release of the latest in their long line of headsets, the Bluetrek Crescendo. The Crescendo comes with many of the typical features and also utilizes Bluetrek’s NoiseLock technology, which promises…

  • Google Earth is Pretty on Nexus One (and the Occasional Droid)

    Google Earth, the world map on steroids has been released for Android-powered smartphones, well, one of them, kinda sort-of (more on this later on). The application is now available on the Android Marketplace for phones sporting 2.1 or above; IE: the Nexus One and Rooted/Modded phones.

  • Windows Phone 7 1 Chassis Option At Launch?

    Rumor has it that there will be very few chassis designs available for Windows Phone 7 Series, with only 1 being available at launch. At the big announcement at MWC, Microsoft did say they were going to put more hardware restrictions on the manufacturer. Chassis 1 has a full touchscreen, gigahertz processor, and dedicated graphics…

  • Windows Phone 7 at Games Development Conference

    When you hear of Games Development Conference, you probably think of XBox, PS3, Wii, and PC game manufacturers. While Microsoft is behind they XBox brand, they are planning on spending about 25% of their time at the conference talking about Windows Phone 7. The conference is on March 10th, which is before the much talked…

  • Android Market offers highest percentage of free apps

    Recently, at the Mobile World Congress, Dutch analytics company Distimo gave a special presentation called “Mobile Application Stores – State of Play.” Distimo tracks and trends app purchases and downloads from app stores for the six largest mobile operating systems.

  • PocketGear Acquires Handango

    Today, PocketGear announces its acquisition of Handango, making it the world’s largest cross-platform app store. It now supports over 2,000 devices and every major OS platform. It reaches users in over 175 countries with over 140,000 free and paid apps.

  • Google Shopper: Android for Frugal

    Google Shopper is the recently unleashed shopping application from Google Mobile Labs for Android-powered phones. It promises to easily lookup specifications, find reviews and compare prices based on product searches.