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Sprint HTC Evo 4G First Impressions
Well everyone, today is the big day lots of you have been waiting for. The Sprint HTC Evo 4G is finally available in stores! There’s been plenty happening in our Evo forums here, but we want your feedback! What has your experience been like with the Evo? Was ordering and purchasing smooth? Are you happy…
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Sprint HTC Evo 4G Teardown
Now that the Sprint Evo 4G is getting into people’s hands, its come time for someone to do a full teardown of the device, and the folks over at ifixit have done just that. One of the interesting things to note is that it has the Broadcom BCM4329 chip, which is capable of 802.11n, even…
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Samsung i897 Coming To At&t
Time for another high-end Android phone to join the market, this time its by Samsung and reportedly coming to At&t. Back in January, we reported on the Samsung Galaxy, with recent reports showing the Galaxy S is coming to T-Mobile this year. Now there’s another Samsung device, which is very similar to the Galaxy S,…
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LG Fathom WM6.5.3 Coming To Verizon
While most of us are looking ahead to Android Froyo, the Evo 4G, and Windows Phone 7, LG has announced it latest Windows Mobile 6.5.3 phone, the Fathom. While there’s been custom ROMs running WM6.5.3 for a while now, this will be the first US Carrier official release of the operating system, and its coming…
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Froyo First Impressions From A Nexus One User
For those of you that don’t know, Froyo, Android 2.2, has been making its way to Nexus One users since last night. It was first reported by a user at TechCrunch, then someone at Engadget. Twitter was a flutter with users saying they received the OTA update as well. It only took about a half…
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One of our own toys with the EVO!
Well it seems like Sprint is preparing for battle by starting to load up its Sprints stores with the highly anticipated HTC Evo. According to my source deep inside Sprint some sprint stores have begun receiving shipments of the Evo. According to her they will open most stores hours early (hers is opening at 8am…
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Donations For HD2 WP7 Port
While most of us are CDMA users here, this is still for a good cause. As you probably know, XDA has been working on porting the Windows Phone 7 ROM to the HTC HD2. Da_G has done most of the work on this, but he needs a few things before he can get any further.…
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Verizon To Release 3-5 LTE-Compatible Devices By May 2011
By now, we all should know that Verizon’s 4G plans are to go with LTE (Long Term Evolution) instead of WiMAX like Sprint. Sprint’s first 4G-compatible device, the Evo 4G, will be available in a few weeks. Verizon’s CEO, Lowell McAdam, has confirmed that Verizon will be releasing three to five LTE-compatible handsets by May…
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HTC Mondrian Render & Possible Specs
This weekend, the folks at XDA got their hands on a new Windows Phone 7 leaked ROM, which supposedly comes from a device codenamed the HTC Mondrian on Cingular USA. This is a bit strange since Cingular has been long gone and it has been At&t Mobility since 2007. The above image was extracted from…
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HTC Wildfire Announced
HTC has announced its newest Android handset, the Wildfire. Its an entry-level Android 2.1 device with a smaller screen and a slower processor than the Desire and Legend. It features a 3.2″ QVGA capacitive touchscreen, 5MP camera with LED flash and auto-focus, and the usual Bluetooth, GPS, and WiFi. It has the MSM7225 chipset clocked…
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PPCGeeks REVIEW: The HTC Incredible
Hello Users! Courtesy of Verizon Wireless, we here at PPCGeeks.Com took a moment and got in depth with the HTC Incredible, a luxury Android 2.1 smartphone. Since late April, the Incredible has been making eyes bulge and mouths water as they took look at the sleek, light, and FAST device, featuring more RAM and a…
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Google Closing Down Phone Web Store – Changes Coming
We all knew the Nexus One was a project by Google to help change the wireless industry as we know it. They were hoping to make things more open, similar to how GSM operates. By selling an unlocked phone, they were hoping to be able to offer it on every major US carrier, but that…
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Sprint & Verizon Touch Pro 2 WM6.5 Causes ‘Sleep Of Death’
Many of our forum users have reported issues after upgrading to the official Windows Mobile 6.5 release for their Touch Pro 2’s. The one that seems the most common is being referred to as the “Sleep Of Death”. This seems to occur randomly, but what happens is when the phone goes to sleep, after a…
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Sprint’s Samsung Moment Finally Getting Android 2.1 Now
While there’s been no official announcement from Sprint, people are reporting that if you download the update executable from Sprint’s website that you’ll end up with Android 2.1. The download page still shows the update is dated 2/19/2010. There’s some discussions going on in our forums about it too. Have you tried it? What was…
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Ten Bucks for Being EVO-Cool
John Taylor who is a spokesperson for Sprint/Nextel on public policy has clarified through his blog that the $10 monthly charge that is on EVO plans is not because of the 4G; it’s because it’s the most awesome phone ever! “This is specific to the device. It’s not related to whether you are using 3G…
