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ZTE Blade Vec 3G and Vec 4G smartphones rock 5-inch 720p screens

This has been a big week for new smartphones, tablets, and other products to debut with IFA 2014 underway in Germany. Among the products that have debuted are a pair of new smartphones from ZTE including the Blade Vec 3G and the Blade Vec 4G. I'm sure you can guess from the names what the major difference between the two devices is.



The Vec 3G smartphone supports 3G data speeds while the Vec 4G supports faster 4G LTE connectivity, other than the speed of the data network supported the smartphones are very similar. Both rock a 5-inch HD resolution display and have the same thin 7.8mm profile.


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The operating system under the hood of both devices is Android 4.4 KitKat. Other features include Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi, GPS, and 1GB of RAM each. The Vec 4G smartphone has 16GB of storage, a quad core Snapdragon 400 processor running at 1.2GHz, 2MP front camera and a 13MP rear camera.


The Vec 3G has an 8MP rear camera and a 5MP front camera. It uses a MTK6582 quad-core 1.3GHz ARM Cortex-A7 processor and has a microSD card slot for storage expansion. It's unclear if the Vec 4G has that same microSD card slot. Pricing and launch details are unavailable at this time.


SOURCE: SlashGear





Acompli arrives on Android to curate your email for you

Managing our email has now become a race against time as everyday, an avalanche of new messages sometimes hit our personal and business inboxes. We’ve tried labels, filters, not reading them at all and going straight to delete, but all those seem to barely help us (no, we cannot delete our email account at all). Email app Acompli has now arrived for Android devices and they’re claiming they’ve found the solution to this problem: they’ll manage your email for you.



According to the app developers, they’ve done exhaustive research on how to help users deal with their email influx. Industry analysts have predicted that the volume will not decrease at all but will in fact get higher and more and more we will be relying on mobile devices to deal with them. Those are the insights that they used to create their “Focused Inbox” that will not just triage or delete unnecessary ones. Instead, it will separate it into just two categories: “Focused” and “Others”. Through a beta test using thousands of users, they were able to refine the algorithms to determine which emails go into which category. But in case they get it occasionally wrong, you can easily switch the emails from the one category to another.


Aside from its Focused Inbox, Acompli also “tightly” integrates your calendar with your email, although other email apps have been doing this too. If you work on your mobile, it is also assumed that most of your files are in the cloud and so Acompli makes it much easier to attach files from your Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive. And you can even send large files even if you haven’t downloaded them on your phone.


Other email apps like Gmail, Mailbox, Blue Mail, etc have also been tinkering with how we can eventually solve that pesky problem of too many emails. If you want to try and see if Acompli’s method is effective for your personal and business needs, you can download it for free through the Google Play Store.


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SOURCE: Acompli


Chrome Browser v37 now has Google’s material design

It’s taking them slowly but surely to roll it out, but Google is continuing to apply its Material Design to its products. The latest to have been updated to this new look is something that most Android users probably have on their devices: the Chrome Browser. Version 37 of one of the most popular mobile browsers sees a new look, a simplified sign-in system and more bug fixes and improvements which is always a welcome update.



Of course if you’ve been on Chrome Browser Beta, then you’ve already been enjoying these updates for some time now, since it has been there for almost two months already. But for the more cautious ones who prefer the more “stable” version of Chrome, then you can now finally officially say that you’ve been “materialized”. In preparation for Android L, Google has been changing the design of its products, previously with I/O 2014 and then just a few days ago, its News and Weather app. Now you can see it in the “flatness” of your tabs and icons on the Chrome Browser.


If you’re a heavy Google user, then the good news with this update is that you just have to sign in to your Google account on your Chrome Browser and all other Google websites you visit will be automatically logged in. It also works if you have multiple Google accounts, but not yet with third-party sites that use your Google account to log in. While this is easier if you’re the type to still constantly forget your password, it also means anyone holding or borrowing your phone will be able to access your Google sites if they’re using the Chrome Browser.


By this time, the updates should have rolled out to all Android devices. If you still don’t see the changes, you can head on to Google Play Store and manually update your Chrome Browser.


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Evernote 6 for Android: easier note creation, new design

For people who cannot live without their Evernote app professionally and personally, the new Android update will make you giddy. Not only does it have a brand new design (well, as brand new as their look could ever be), but it brings new ways of integrating your favourite productivity app with your Android smartphone. Now you have easier note creation, better web clipping from your mobile browser and faster notebook sharing.



In an entire day, you would probably use the “add new note” option more than twice. The update has now made it even easier with a floating New Note button at the lower corner of your app. When you click it, a whole slew of type of notes springs up: handwriting, audio, reminder, attachment, camera and of course, old school text. When you want to view your different notebooks, notes and tags, you just have to swipe left from your screen and it will display all those and your shortcut as well.


One of the favourite things we do with Evernote is to clip stuff from the web directly onto the app. While this has been present for some browsers before, tapping the elephant icon when you share something is now easier, as you can choose which notebooks to save them to, what tags to add and you can do other stuff while it’s saving (if the site is heavy) because it does it in the background. If you use Evernote to collaborate with other people, you can now easily share your notebooks with other users by clicking on the person icon at the top. You can even set different permissions like “can edit and invite”, “can edit” and “can view” only.


The search function has also been redesigned for easier access. If you have both business and personal Evernote, you can also now switch between yoru two accounts. Evernote has so many features and functions that it’s hard to learn them all at once. There is now an Explore Evernote section in your Navigation Drawer where they put features that they think you should know and learn how to use. The update for Evernote 6 in the Google Play Store has been slowly rolling-out so it should be there in your device when you read this.




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SOURCE: Evernote





CAT Phones outs the S50 for the rugged smartphone market

Caterpillar is synonymous to the construction industry – the world of power vehicles, heavy industrial tools, and heavy work boots (which at some point in time most people wanted a pair of). CAT Phones, a subsidiary of Caterpillar, has been outing rugged smartphones over the years, and this year, at the IFA 2014 in Berlin, it has announced a new rugged smartphone – the Cat S50.



The Cat S50 is probably one of the more advanced rugged phones out in the market – in terms of features and software. Most ruggedized and industry-standard devices will rely on hardware features as their selling points, while trading software advancement. The Cat S50 comes with Android KitKat out of the box, and over 1000 handpicked apps pre-installed for industry, outdoor, and rugged usage.


Underneath the armor is a Snapdragon 400 Quad-core processor turning at 1.2GHz. It sports a 4.7-inch IPS HD 1280x720 screen made of scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass 3, and can be used even with wet fingers. It is backstopped by 2GB of RAM and has 8GB of internal storage, expandable to 64GB via microSD. The battery is a 2,630mAh one, probably pretty weak for an outdoor phone, the S50’s one chink in its armor.


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Speaking of rugged defense, the phone is US military certified (Mil Spec 810G) for physical integrity, IP6X dust-proof, IPX7 water-resistant – which means you can take it underwater (1 meter deep) for 30 minutes. The phone also gives you 4G connectivity along with rack of internal connectivity features. The Cat S50 will start selling at USD$499.


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SOURCE: CAT Phones





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