Evernote with new Fresh UI and many improvements for Android

Evernote has just released a new flavor of their mobile application for smartphones running under Google’s Android operating system, packing it with a fresh look and a range of other enhancements as well.  The new Evernote 4.0 for Android was meant to offer much better performance levels when compared to previous releases, the development team claims. The most important change that users will benefit from, however, affects the interface of most of the application’s menus. “Whether it’s a completely makeover or a simple touch-up, every single screen of the app have been redesigned to be easier to use, faster and more intuitive,” Evernote explains. The Home Screen combines note creation with direct links to notebooks,...

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NTT DOCOMO Announces 16 Android 4.0 Smartphones, including Galaxy S III

Japanese wireless carrier NTT DOCOMO has just unveiled plans to launch no less than 19 new devices this summer, 16 of which are smartphones, all running under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform.  The lineup will also include a new mobile phone “designed for kids,” along with a mobile Wi-Fi router and a new tablet PC, the wireless operator announced. At the same time, the company unveiled that many of these new devices will offer support for its LTE mobile service called DOCOMO Xi (read "Crossy"). Among the planned smartphones, we can count handsets that pack multi-core application processors, which will sport touchscreen displays ranging from 3.7 to 5-inches. The wireless carrier notes that there will...

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KDDI Unveils Spring 2012 Android Roadmap

Japanese carrier KDDI has just announced its upcoming set of Android smartphones, which are expected to arrive this Spring. The most interesting seems to be Fujitsu’s Arrows Z ISW13F. The smartphone is equipped with an Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal memory. In addition, the device is said to boast an impressive 4.6-inch capacitive touchscreen display with HD (720 x 1280 pixels) resolution. A 13-megapixel rear camera is included as well. Another Android smartphone to be launched at KDDI in the following weeks is the HTC J, which was announced several weeks ago. The Kyocera Urbano Progresso is another device that will soon make it to KDDI’s shelves. The smartphone is said to be capable...

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Motorola MOTOSMART MIX XT550 Android Phone Gets Launched in China

Motorola Mobility and Sina have teamed up to offer the MOTOSMART MIX XT550 Android phone in China.  The smartphone will be launched during a ‘Share Music, Share Perspectives’ concert, co-sponsored by Motorola Mobility and Sina Micro Music, which is set to take place on May 30 in Beijing. Some of the most popular music stars will perform live in Beijing, such as Liu Xin, Su Miaoling, Tan Jiexi, Wang Yuexin, and Yang Yang.  Motorola fans are recommended to purchase the MOTOSMART MIX XT550 by visiting the company’s online store, because all those who buy it will be automatically entered into a lucky draw for a chance to win one of the concert tickets. Motorola MOTOSMART MIX XT550 is a music-oriented smartphone,...

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Estonia and Latvia Now in Street View with Almost 100% Coverage

Google has been on a roll lately with Street View, likely making up for all the lost time during the entire WiFi payload data affair. But that's (almost) behind it now and it's started to roll out the service in more and more countries.  Estonia and Latvia join the Ukraine and Israel as the latest countries to have Street View imagery live online.   Google has been to several places in the two country with its Street View cars, has now finished processing the imagery, blurring faces and car number plates, and has now published the images online.  And it's not just one or two places, Google has pretty much covered the entire countries, every nook and cranny. They're not that big, but still, the coverage is greater...

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Baidu Unleashes Changhong H5018 Smartphone in China

As expected, giant search engine Baidu unveiled the Changhong H5018 smartphone powered by its own Cloud Smart Terminal platform.  According to the company, the device has been manufactured by Foxconn and will be available for purchase via China Unicom. Obviously, it won’t be available outside China and it will sell for less than 1,000 RMB (160 USD or 125 EUR) through dedicated channels across the country. Although Baidu wasn’t very specific on the availability of the phone, the company did mention the Changhong H5-18 was expected to hit shelves “in the very near future.” The phone’s main selling point will be Baidu’s Cloud Smart Terminal platform, which packs the core technologies of Baidu Cloud Computing, such...

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HTML5 Desktop Apps Become a Reality with Firefox 15 and the Mozilla Marketplace

Mozilla is rather serious about web apps and it's been working on making its own platform a reality. The Mozilla Marketplace will soon go live for users and Mozilla is highlighting one of the potential uses of the app store and the web platform itself, describing how web apps can be "installed" locally, on Windows and Mac for now. What this means is that web apps can run separately from the Firefox browser, or any other browser that may support them, but they'll still be relying on the browser underneath. "App shortcuts" on the dekstop or in the start menu have been around for ages, both Chrome and Firefox can do it, so it's not much of a big deal. But the ability coupled with the single-focus of most web apps, which do...

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Huawei Ascend D1 Spotted at FCC with Dual-Core CPU and HSPA+

Unveiled a few days ahead of Mobile World Congress 2012 trade fair, Huawei Ascend D1 has yet to make its entrance on the market. While most handset manufacturers already launched their device announced back in February, Huawei is still struggling to debut its Diamond family of smartphones. According to the latest hearsay, the Chinese company plans to release all three Diamond smartphones this summer, though we don’t have any official launch dates yet. However, at least one of them will soon hit shelves in the United States, the Huawei Ascend D1. The guys over at Engadget have just spotted the handset at FCC (Federal Communication Commission) with pentaband HSPA+. Unfortunately, we’re not sure which carrier will offer...

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SONY Intros Powerful VAIO S and Z Series Laptops with External Graphics

Japanese company SONY has just announced the new VAIO S Series and VAIO Z series notebook on its official website.  Unlike the value models we’ve just presented here, the S and Z series come with Ivy Bridge processors and even a Power Media Dock with AMD’s Radeon HD 7670M GPU. Intel’s Core i7-3612QM processor was just launched two weeks ago and comes with a large 6 MB of Level 3 cache and four cores able to handle eight threads at the same time thanks to HyperThreading. The low power frequency of the CPU is just 1200 MHz while the normal speed is 2100 MHz with Turbo option up to 3100 MHz when only one thread requires the most performance, 3 GHz for two cores and 2800 MHz when three or all cores need to show their muscles. The...

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Script: Fast Secure Contact Form

Fast Secure Contact Form is a nice little script that can be installed on your server, and via a nice GUI can help regular and advanced users alike, generate a fully-featured contact form to be integrated within their website. Fast Secure Contact Form comes in two versions, one for stand-alone websites running on PHP and as a plugin for the WordPress platform. In the PHP-based version, for every created form, the script provides a PHP snippet for embedding it in the desired location on the website. For the WordPress version, for every created form, the plugin provides a custom shortcode to be used within posts and pages for showing the created form. Of course, the WP plugin is available in the WordPress plugin repository...

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Lenovo Unveils the Lightest 14” UltraBook

Today, Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo is previewing at the company’s Accelerate Channel Partner Conference in Las Vegas the lightest 14” UltraBook in the industry. It’s called the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and it’s made out of a premium carbon fiber chassis. The new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 UltraBook is packed with premium features such as 3G connectivity and Lenovo’s own RapidCharge technology that guarantees a  near-full battery charge in 30 minutes, along with Intel’s vPro technology packet that allows every security agency to monitor your computer. The processing power is delivered by Intel’s latest generation of Ivy Bridge processors and it will have up to 8 GB of DDR3 RAM to play with. Graphics are displayed on a 16:9...

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Tizen OS Runs Android Apps, Gets Loaded on Galaxy S II HD LTE

Samsung is working on the development of a new mobile operating system, Tizen, which is slowly shaping up as a real-world platform, although many have had a hard time trusting that.  To ensure that the OS will benefit from a good start, Samsung made sure to include it with support for applications developed for other mobile platforms out there as well, including its own bada OS, or Google’s Android operating system. The idea behind this is very simple. Tizen arrives with support for a program called Application Compatibility Layer (ACL), which enables it to run software developed using the bada SDK, as well as Android applications, as can be seen in the first video below (via TheHandheldBlog).  According to Open...

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Samsung Galaxy S III Receives FCC Approval, Lacks LTE Support

Even though earlier this month Samsung confirmed plans to launch its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone in the United States, the company only vaguely hinted to a “summer” release. Obviously, summer could mean that the Galaxy S III is ready to hit shelves as early as June, but we don’t have any official confirmation yet. However, there are speculations that claim Samsung needed to delay the North American launch of the Galaxy S III in order to successfully launch the European version, which doesn’t come with LTE support. Although many previously thought the North American variant will be equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 chipset that features LTE support, it appears that the Galaxy S III will come with HSPA+ only. The...

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AMD Desktop APUs Set for August Launch, Brazos 2.0 in June

With the first Trinity APUs out of the way, we can look to the future and gather up whatever reports exist on the chips still unreleased.  As it happens, we didn't have to look in too many places for data on the Brazos 2.0. CPU World got a lead on them. One of the chips, AMD E1-1200, is a 1.4 GHz entry-level dual-core CPU, while the E2-1800 has 1.7 GHz clock speed. Both use the Bobcat micro-architecture and have ultra-low power consumption. June is when their release is set to occur.  After that, the A-Series desktop APU line will show up: dual-core A4 and A6 units, plus quad-core A8 and A10 processors. For overclockers, there will be both dual-core and quad-core models with unlocked multipliers.  Now...

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Nokia 110 and 112: Dual-SIM Feature Phones with Free EA Games, Facebook, Twitter

As expected, Nokia has just announced the upcoming availability of two new cheap feature-phones, the Nokia 110 and 112. Unveiled at the “Next Billion” event that takes place in Karachi, Pakistan, both handsets are expected to arrive on different markets in the following months. Although both Nokia 110 and Nokia 112 are dual SIM phones, the former will also be available as single SIM versions, Nokia 111 and Nokia 113, with this last one available in Europe and Eurasia only. According to the Finish handset maker, Nokia 110 and its single SIM versions will be available for purchase beginning Q2 for about 35 EUR (45 USD), while the Nokia 112 is expected to hit shelves in Q3 for 38 EUR (50 USD). Both feature-phones come...

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AMD Trinity Powers Arctic MC101 Media Centers

You'd expect us to immediately start listing all the laptops based on the new accelerated processing units (APUs) from Advanced Micro Devices, but that's not what we're going to do. Sure, we've already seen some notebooks here and there, but the landslide is only now about to start, assuming PC makers don't wait until the AMD Fusion Developer Summit (June 11-14). Still, we figured we'd start with something more unusual. Trinity chips really are good for a wide variety of products. Arctic has made the official introduction of the MC101 Series all-in-one entertainment centers. One might say they qualify as computers as much as they fit the definition of media players. Design-wise, they are class-brushed silver-colored...

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