Month: March 2010

  • Dell’s Aero Lands On AT&T

    AT&T will be the carrier of choice for Dell when it releases it’s first Android-powered smartphone for the US market later this year. Given the name Aero, it’s skinned home screen is distinct from any other Android device currently on the market. There is no word on specifications or features, or even a release date…

  • CTIA: Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus headed to AT&T in the coming months

    Palm is expected to showcase  the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi plus headed to the AT&T’s network in the coming months. The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus will be available for $149.99 and $49.99 for new subscribers ($100 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract). The Palm Pre will be similar to the Verizon Wireless version…

  • T-Mobile and Clearwire May Share Their Toys

    T-Mobile and Clearwire sitting in a tree: S-P-E-C-T-R-U-M-I-N-G First comes 3G, then comes 4G, then comes the Spectrum sharing! While this may appear ludicrous at first sight (Sprint owns majority of Clearwire, T-Mobile is looking at LTE for 4G while Clearwire builds it’s competing Wi-Max 4G network), it may be possible. The CEO of T-Mobile…

  • [PPCG Review] SanDisk 16Gb microSDHC Card

    I had the opportunity to review the SanDisk 16Gb microSDHC Class 2 memory card. In case you’re not aware, the class of a card refers to the read/write speed. The higher the number, the faster the card should perform. So, a class 2 is the slowest while a class 4, 6, or even 10 should…

  • Radioshack to carry the HD2!

    Ladies and gents, the word is out! Thanks to the work of JQuill and Jbearamus, we have confirmed Radioshack to be one of the carriers to carry the T-Mobile HD2 upon, or around release. According to SKU lists, the device will be held from sales until the 24th, this coming week, but its confirmed by…

  • The PPCGP is OUT! 03/18/2010

    The PPCGP, All the Mobile News You’ll Ever Need! Episode 15, for 03/18/2010!

  • Sprint Touch Pro2 WM 6.5 ROM Officially Released

    Sprint has released the WM 6.5 ROM update for the HTC Touch Pro2. Sense UI? Yes! WM 6.5.3? No!

  • No OTA 2.1 for Motodroid Owners Today

    Good grief, not again?!  For the second time, Motorola Droid users have been ‘officially’ promised the 2.1 update and for the second time, that promise has not come to fruition. The guys over at Engadget did some digging after 12 noon came and went without a single report from the Droid community of the ROM…

  • 03/18/10 The Pocket PC Geeks Podcast!

    The PPCGP, All the Mobile News You’ll Ever Need! Episode 14, for 03/18/2010!

  • WiMAX-enabled HTC Supersonic rumored to debut on Sprint at CTIA

      The latest buzz on the street is that Sprint plans to unveil the HTC Supersoinc, the fist handset compatible with Sprint’s 4G data network, at the CTIA next week. The device will be running on Sprint’s new WiMax network, which is claimed to offer speeds up to 10 times faster than its current network.…

  • Sprint News Release : Nexus One Coming To Sprint

    Well what do we have here? It looks like every carrier is jumping on the Nexus One bandwagon lately, Sprint being the latest. In a Sprint news release today, Sprint has announced that the Google Nexus One device will be arriving on the Sprint network, although a release date has not been decided upon. Sprint,…

  • Official: Android 2.1 Update Now Available

    The first phone to be officially upgraded to the Android 2.1 operating system is the Samsung Galaxy Spica (also known as the Galaxy Portal). The upgrade is available in Germany and Samsung has detailed that it will be gradually rolled out to other European markets, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Asia, Africa and rest…

  • HTC HD2 on Tmobile March 24th?

    An image popped up on TMONews.com this evening which shows the HTC HD2 with a launch date of March 24th on Tmobile.  The image outlines it will be available with a launch price of $199.99 when signing 2 year contract on a qualifying plan with data.  This is substantially less than the Touch Pro2’s current…

  • Updated: Official Sprint WM6.5 Update For TP2 Coming March 19th

    Although most of you are probably running a cooked Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM from our forums, some of you will be happy to hear that a Sprint brochure shows that the Touch Pro 2 will be upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5 in March. Our user platin465 was kind enough to post an image of the…

  • Apple -vs Google gets heated: ‘Steve Jobs simply hates Eric Schmidt’

    Image Credit: Daniel Adel, New York Times And so the saga continues…………..   What once seemed as a beautiful friendship and had many in the Washington DC Administration worried with Google and Apple working so closley together in harmony to prevent Microsoft from dominating the Smartphone industry has turned into a bitter rivalry. According to the…