Category: General

  • HTC Evo View 4G: Used To Announce 2011 BET Award Winners

    HTC Evo View 4G: Used To Announce 2011 BET Award Winners

    With this being the year of the Tablets, BET Awards went along with the trend. The presenters used the HTC Evo View 4G from Sprint to reveal the winners rather than the traditional envelopes of yesteryear. BET worked its way into a major social media rampage leading up to Sunday night’s BET AWARDS 2011, with…

  • Check out our EVO3D Forums!

    Check out our EVO3D Forums!

      Hey Geeks! For Those of you owning or considering an EVO3D this summer, nows your chance to get in the loop! Join the Conversation  in our EVO3D Forums! Check out our EVO3D Forums, where the users are chatting up the latest news and information on the brand new HTC Device on the Sprint Network.…

  • Nokia Windows Phone 7: First Look

    Nokia Windows Phone 7: First Look

    Fellow PPCgeekers and readers, we present you to the very first Nokia WP7 device. Introduced by no other than Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia. Ex-Microsoft employee Elop, paused his presentation to ask the crowd of bloggers and journalists to “put away their cameras” as he was going to show them something “super confidential.” Despite his…

  • Verizon To Expand Florida’s 4G Market

    Verizon To Expand Florida’s 4G Market

    Verizon Wireless announced today that their advanced 4G LTE wireless network will be available to customers in the major areas of Sarasota and Bradenton in 2011. Florida region president of Verizon Wireless Pam Tope stated, “Florida customers already have a lot of wireless power in their hands with 4G LTE, and this announced expansion in…

  • PPCGeeks Q & A – Week 1

    PPCGeeks Q & A – Week 1

        Well ‘geekers, it’s time to start this thing up.  There were some tough questions here but the team has spent some time to try to get some answers for you guys.  Take a look and see what you think.  Also remember to stay tuned for week 2 and some more upcoming interviews from…

  • Verizon 4G blankets more locations, July 21st

    Verizon 4G blankets more locations, July 21st

    Verizon has been making great efforts, to cover our states with as much 4G as they can, in a fairly short period of time. They remain well on track to meet their goal of adding 4G LTE to 175 markets by the end of the year. Starting July 21st, they are again adding another new…

  • Firefox 5 for Android arrives

    Firefox 5 for Android arrives

    Only a few short months after Mozilla released the final build of Firefox 4 for Android, we now have Firefox 5, just added to the Android Market for the taking. Mobile web browsers can often be a little disappointing, but Mozilla is making great efforts into bringing its Firefox browser up to the desktop edition’s…

  • How Is Your Data? Mine’s Up!

    How Is Your Data? Mine’s Up!

    So no big surprises here guys Smart Phone Data is up! It is to rise a huge amount over the next few years with 4G becoming more popular. The real problem here is unlimited accounts are being eliminated. Sprint is really the last carrier to offer true unlimited data. T-Mobile has even switched to tiered…

  • Adobe updated Flex and Flash 4.5: Blackberry and iOS now supported

    Adobe updated Flex and Flash 4.5: Blackberry and iOS now supported

    On April 11th 2011, Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the release of Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5. Today Adobe has released the updates to the Flash Builder and Flex 4.5 framework including all new tooling and framework support that will enable developers to reuse most or all of their code across applications that target…

  • UPDATE: VZW Internal Doc: Verizon Tiered Data: pricing and start date revealed

    UPDATE: VZW Internal Doc: Verizon Tiered Data: pricing and start date revealed

    Currently, Verizon Wireless smartphone users with family plans are required to pay $29.99 per line for cellular data. Non-family-plan smartphone customers can purchase unlimited mobile data (with a 5GB allowance) for the same monthly price. That is all about to change when the free hotspot promo ends. Tiered pricing is now set to begin the…

  • Jailbreak your WP7 with ChevronWP7 Team and Microsoft’s support

    Jailbreak your WP7 with ChevronWP7 Team and Microsoft’s support

    There’s a bit of good news coming from the ChevronWP7 team, it seems it’s been a while since we have heard much from them. Well, now they have made a pretty big Windows Phone announcement, completely backed by Microsoft. The specific Blog post on their site confirmed a forthcoming low-cost alternative to Developer Unlocking your…

  • Thunderbolt update coming June 30th: Gingerbread in tow

    Thunderbolt update coming June 30th: Gingerbread in tow

    Verizon HTC Thunderbolt owners have been frustrated about random reboots, battery life, and GPS lock times, along with other issues, since release. The first update cured some of these issues, but some still remain. Well there are now some new signs pointing to an update for June 30th and with Gingerbread in tow. At least…

  • LG Gelato Q (Optimus II) hits the FCC with Verizon bands

    LG Gelato Q (Optimus II) hits the FCC with Verizon bands

    It appears that a Verizon variant of the LG Optimus II aka Gelato Q handset, known as the VS700 — has just been cleared by the FCC, making this the third operator associated with the upcoming handset.

  • The Pocket PC Geeks Podcast for 6/15/11!

    The Pocket PC Geeks Podcast for 6/15/11!

    The PPCGP, All the Mobile News You’ll Ever Need! Season 2, Episode 24 for 06/15/2011! See us on both ZUNE Marketplace & iTunes! Also, got  a minute? REVIEW the podcast and tell us what you think! Be sure to follow us on twitter! Host: Laos101 AKA Joshua Sherman Guests: Our Newsies! Lives2Learn, and News Manager Jason Fieldz Topics: Patents!…

  • Verizon to get 3 new devices from RIM, by years end

    Verizon to get 3 new devices from RIM, by years end

    A recent interview with Verizon Chief Marketing Officer Marni Walden provides some information on what the future holds for BlackBerry devices at Verizon Wireless. This interview confirms the upcoming arrival of three new RIM devices with the carrier later in the year.