If you and your Sprint PPC-6700 or Verizon XV6700 (HTC Apache) have been feeling a little left out in the cold while all those other handsets get that sought-after Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional upgrade, buck up little buddy! ppcgeeks forum user Helmi_c has finally finished cooking his own WM6 ROM for said handsets. Helmi_c will…
AT&T goes live with Motorola RAZR2 V9 – now available on AT&T website
With Big Red and Sprint already having launched their own versions of the Motorola RAZR2 V9, it’s about time AT&T got with the program. The AT&T-branded MOTORAZR2 V9 is actually ahead of schedule (early September) and looks to be going for $299.99 (after a $450 web discount). Nope, that wasn’t a mistake. This little “mahogany”…
Hardware unlocking effort results in exploded Apple iPhone – hardware hack makes iPhone go BOOM!
You know what they say. “If you’re not willing to brick your iPhone, don’t try the iPhone hardware unlocking hack.” Well, that’s more like something that we just said, but you get the picture. Apparently, an enterprising hacker on the Hackint0sh forums wanted to give geohot’s hardware unlock hack a go on a locked iPhone.…
Free SMS text messaging from your web browser – also sends to your mobile phone, does mass messaging, replies
Granted, there’s nothing new about a free web-based SMS text messaging service – there are plenty of similar websites out there. But Joopz breaks from the crowd by offering some incredible features and integration with your mobile phone. Thanks to the good folks over at Joopz, you can send SMS text messages straight from your…
HTC announces HTCmail for all HTC smartphones – based on Microsoft Hosted Exchange
With HTC’s recent product launches, we couldn’t imagine their portfolio getting any more amazing. So it’s a good thing we didn’t have to imagine the new HTCmail service from, well, HTC. It looks like the smartphone manufacturing powerhouse is getting into the email-game to help promote the mobile productivity of their smartphone lineup. We missed…
The cheapest GPS phone that you’ll never ever get to use
As if to make up for all those trademark shirking, innovation lacking knock-off factories in China, we find this Chinese GPS phone that doesn’t even have a name. This thing doesn’t purport to be any sort of name-brand phone – it’s just a run-of-the-mill Chinese phone, but with GPS. Oh, and it only costs about…
Could these really be spy pics of the Sony Ericsson K900 Cybershot?
Could these be actual live spy pictures of a Sony Ericsson K900 Cybershot cameraphone? We certainly hope so, this thing is as sleek and sexy as it is, well, sleek and sexy. And, with a Cybershot camera packed in there, the SE K900 will be a definite winner. Now, if only those pictures below weren’t…
Not so new news: T-Mobile Germany confirms ongoing negotiations with Apple for iPhone exclusivity
This isn’t going to come as much of a shock to most, but T-Mobile Germany has confirmed that they have indeed been in talks with Apple over the upcoming European (specifically, German) release of the iPhone. Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile Germany, said that they “have held talks with Apple but have nothing more to…
Sync your Apple iPhone with two different computers – get multiple iTunes’ music onto the iPhone
We love the iPhone’s ability to easily and quickly transfer music from our iTunes’ library. There’s nothing like a little plug and click simplicity to take any and all inconvenience out of make accessing your music a breeze. But, there’s just one little catch – you can only synchronize the music from a single computer’s…
Vodafone Germany gets jiggy with Visual Voicemail too – kind of
Vodafone Germany must be feeling a little left out of the iPhone party that’s sweeping through Europe right now. With T-Mobile Germany rumored to be getting exclusive dibs on the iPhone in the land of hefeweizen and sauerkraut (oh, and bratwurst and the Autobahn – can’t forget those!), Vodafone Germany must be thinking that the…