Posts in the ‘General’ Category

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Verizon brings 4G LTE service to 19 more cities this Thursday

Today, Verizon Wireless made an announcement that it would be adding 19 more U.S. cities to its continually growing list of locations with its’ well sought after 4G LTE data service. This increases its’ existing number of major cities up to a total of 74. Over half of their goal of 145 cities for 2011. …

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Congratulations to our SEIDIO CONVERT Winners!

Congratulations to O.A.T, GREGJUICE, BPC420, mdphoenix, and xveggiex! You guys have each earned your very own Seidio CONVERT Case! Pick from one of many compatible devices as you are now ready to experience any environment – corporate to construction, rugged to recreation – the SEIDIO CONVERT has you covered! Click HERE for a list of …

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HTC requests parts from chassis manufacturer “Chenming”

According to sources from component manufacturers, the Taiwanese manufacturer of chassis for mobile handsets, “Chenming Mold Industrial” especially recognized for its latest chassis technology by combining metal and plastic, has received orders from HTC for their new lineup of handsets. Chenming points out that most manufacturing of metal frames that is done by CNC lathe …

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IM+ Pro Android Review

There seems to be no shortage of Instant Messaging apps in the Android market these days. A simple search will come up with apps like eBuddy, Meebo, IMO, IMEasy etc. Well, IM+ is yet another instant messaging app. IM+ from Shape Services has to be the most extensive messaging app that I have had the …

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The Pocket PC Geeks Podcast For 06/08/11!

The PPCGP, All the Mobile News You’ll Ever Need! Season 2, Episode 23 for 06/08/2011! 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! Mr. Hoodracer, and News Manager Jason Fieldz Topics: …

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Congratulations to our V.I.P. Tablet Winner!

PERASITE! To our non-VIPS left in the dark, sorry! As you all know, we’ve been giving away a myriad of great stuff for the past month and a half as a celebration to our five years as a site. We already gave one of our tablets to AZTECHKA who won our contest earlier this month …

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iOS 5 Features and Goodies!

  Since iOS 5 has come out in beta for developers some new features have come to light which not only seem to obviate jailbreaking to a certain extent, but also bring the OS to a new level of social network integration and features that the more advanced iOS users have been clamoring for.  Some …

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The FCC Questions Carriers about ATT T-Mobile Merger

Many have heard about the ATT and T-Mobile merger and the debate around it. Well it seems all this dispute has brought on new action from the FCC. They are now hitting up the other carriers for their opinions on the deal. Before we get to the details, let’s look at what has already happened …

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T-Mobile HTC HD7 Free, with 2 Yr. Contract

Beginning today, T-Mobile has announced that they will be making the HD7 available for free with a two-year contract.This is a Web-only offer — now thru Thurs, 6/9/2011 The HTC HD7 is a Windows Phone 7 handset designed to bring what you care about, to one central place. The most noticeable feature about this device …

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Windows Phone Chief “feels Flattered” over iOS5 design.

Steve Jobs stole the WWDC 2011 conference this year with iOS5, iCloud, and the new functions of the iPhone. But I want to point something out. The things that Apple announced as their new features Microsoft ALREADY DID 8 months AHEAD of Apple. Yes folks – Let’s just see who is copying who!

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T-Mobile Giving $100 Credit to New Customers

Say What?!?! Yeah T-Mobile, the company tring to be bought by AT&T, is giving all new customers that come to them from Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon till June 17th. Even though they are being bought (or trying to be bought) they are still independent of AT&T, and must keep their customers number up. Since the announcment of a merger with AT&T Mobility, they have lost a net total of 99,000 customers in the first quarter, including 471,000 net postpaid subscriber losses in the quarter.

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MOTO DROID Bionic – New Images

Some nice shots of the new Motorola Droid Bionic have turned up online. These photos were fairly impressive and show us some of the new features confirmed recently about the redesign of this device. The Droid Bionic is confirmed to have a massive 4.5 inch qHD display, the latest version of Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, as …

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And the Viewsonic gTablet Winner Is…

AZTECHKA! in the short few weeks we let users compete to earn points, Aztechka blew everything away and earned over 2127 points! We’ll be contacting him shortly with details on how to claim his prize. For everyone else, do not fret! We will be announcing our Seidio Case giveaway winners shortly, as well as some awesome other opportunities …

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Is Microsoft going to become the NEW Apple?

There are strong rumors that Microsoft is looking into purchasing Nokia for the nice round number of about $19 billion. While we don’t have an announcement from either Microsoft or Nokia, there is some strong evidence to back up this rumor.

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26 NEW Android Malware Programs Released!!!

As PPCGeek tries to protect it’s users I bring you this important message for Android users. It seems that a company has found over 26 more mal-ware programs in the Android Marketplace. It is suspected of infecting over 100,000 Android users. Lookout Mobile Security made the discovery over the weekend, and believes that the rogue software was likely created by the same persons who created the ‘DroidDream’ malware that was discovered in dozens of Android apps a couple of months back.