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Many Infuse owners have been waiting for this day for a long time. The Samsung Infuse 4G was released in May 2011 and was promised to be upgraded to Gingerbread, however the update from AT&T was delayed and the device continued to operate on Android 2.2 through the end of the year. Those who own …
Ever since our humble beginnings in 2006, PPCGeeks has been a community about free information and free technology. What made PPCGeeks (and our parent company Infitech Media) so amazing was what we built ourselves upon: the foundation of an amazing mobile phone, and the dedication to make it something better. For over five years, we’ve …
We have finally come into a position to pay a little money for some hard work and are currently seeking News Writers for PPCGeeks. I (tsowen) will be taking over as the News Administrator/ Editor in Chief. We have a few slots that are available and we are looking for serious applicants that are serious for writing for us.
The NFL announced that NBC will stream the 2012 Super Bowl live, for free, to the web and Verizon smartphones. This is nothing new for the network, either. It already streams its “Sunday Night Football” telecasts online and to Verizon phones. NBC expects a hearty response for the Feb. 5 showdown in Indianapolis. NBC will also …
Today, HP decided to drop an early Christmas present for WebOs loyalists and development. A few month prior things looked bleak for HP after spending $1.2 billion on Palm only to have their Tablets collect dust and carriers refusing to carry their devices. It almost seemed like an end to WebOS when BesyBuy and other distributors decided …
A security researcher Trevor Eckhart has posted a video detailing hidden software installed on smart phones that logs numerous details about users’ activities. In a 17-minute video posted Monday on YouTube, Trevor Eckhart shows how the software – known as Carrier IQ – logs every text message, Google search and phone number typed on a …
Do you want the good news, or the bad news first? The bad news is that one-click fraud has, at long last, arrived on smartphones. The good news (unless you live in Japan) is that the frauds are focused on Japanese language users of mobile phones. According to Joji Hamada, a security expert with Symantec, …
Taiwanese phonemaker HTC says its recent poor stock market performances are not “so serious”, and points to its plans to release “better and more competitive” handsets for the U.S. market in 2012. HTC has been facing a double whammy in patent infringement lawsuits and a dwindling of its product competitiveness, sources in the handset …
Dabble, the hottest new word game for Android smartphones — has come to the tablet! This HD edition is optimized for display on 7″ tablets. Now, you can play the fast-thinking game that everyone is talking about on an Android smartphone or tablet device. From the crisp and clear high-definition graphics to the addicting game-play, …
Last month HTC officially announced which deviced would receive the android 4.0 upgrade and when, well today it was LG to publish its list of what devices would receive the ice cream sandwich update and when. According to the information shared, the Optimus 2X, the Optimus Black, the Optimus 3D and the Optimus LTE will be …
Android started pushing the source code for v4.0.1 (which is the version that will be shipping on the Galaxy Nexus) last night. They note that this is a large push and not to sync just yet because it would probably be corrupt until their push is complete. This means that we could start seeing AOSP ROM developers coming out with ICS soon. Read more…
Adobe announced today via their blog that, after the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry Playbook, they will no longer develop Flash Player for mobile devices. Instead they are going to refocus their development efforts to better support the newly adopted HTML5 standard. From their blog: “Adobe is all about enabling designers …
HTC announced today via its Facebook Fan Page that it plans to update a number of its smartphones to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in early 2012. “HTC knows how excited our fans are to get their hands on Google’s latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, so we’re thrilled today to announce the …
At this point, if you’re like me you probably have lost track of who is suing who over what. Everyone wants to be king and claim, “I thought of it first. It’s mine I tell ya, ALL MINE!” Can’t we all just be cool like a bunch of Fonzie’s? Currently Samsung is suing Apple Inc., …
Developer Steve Troughton-Smith has managed to get Siri to run on iPhone 4 and fourth generation iPod Touch. Throughton-Smith says Siri runs just as fast and smooth on the iPhone 4 as it does the iPhone 4S. The iPod Touch has some problems due to the inferior microphone, requiring you to talk very loudly but the actual Siri software runs flawlessly.
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