Gmail's latest update brings unified inbox

Gmail bring unified inbox, smart search, conversation view to IMAP/POP accounts and more with the latest Gmail app update.Google has finally brought the combined inbox feature, a long awaited feature, to its Gmail app. The feature is pretty simple and looks well executed as it combines all your linked email accounts to give you a combined inbox.

If you have IMAP or POP accounts (like Yahoo and Outlook) linked in your Gmail app, emails from those accounts will also show up in your combined inbox as well.

The latest update to Gmail brings conversation view to IMAP and POP accounts. This functionality was limited to your Gmail accounts till now.

So, now all your non-Gmail accounts will also show up as stacked conversations.Other new features include a better smart search for faster searches, more responsive animations, larger attachment previews and single tap save to drive functionality.

The update is now available and will be rolling out gradually. Users will be getting the new update in the coming weeks.

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MediaTek unveils Helio series of SoCs for high-end smartphones

MediaTek has introduced a new series of chipsets called Helio. The new MediaTek processor is for the high end phones and is expected to compete with Samsung's Exynos and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series.The first MediaTek Helio chipset will be a 'X10' series, featuring 64-bit support based on eight Cortex A53 cores and clocked at 2.2GHz. The SoC supports display refresh rates at 120MHz, and slo-mo videos at 480 fps. Another Helio P series is set to launch later this year. Smartphones running MediaTek's Helio chipsets are expected to be available by second quarter of this year.

MediaTek has a strong presence in the budget and mid-range segments, however the top end smartphone segment is dominated by Qualcomm. Samsung also puts its Exynos chipsets in its flagships. MediaTek is expected to tap the top end segment with its new Helio series.

Recently, reports had emerged that MediaTek was working on processors with 10 or 12 cores. A Chinese blog claimed that MediaTek is exploring 8-core CPU solutions and could venture their research into 10 and 12 core CPU territory.Earlier this year at the MWC 2015, the company unveiled new technology solutions. The new announcements included Crossmount, SoC 8173 ARM tablet and a multimode wireless charging chipset.

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Snapdragon 808 powered LG G4 to be unveiled on April 28

LG has started sending out invites to the media for an event, to be held on April 28. The event is likely the launch of the company’s next flagship, LG G4. The smartphone, which was recently leaked on the XDA Developers Forum, has been expected for a while now. According to leaks and rumours, the device will come with a stylus, similar to Samsung’s S Pen and will feature a quad-HD display with a hexa-core 64-bit SoC.

LG’s invitation though doesn’t give much away. It simply says ‘See The Great, Feel The Great’. The event will be held simultaneously in New York, Paris, Singapore, London, Istanbul and Seoul.

The 64-bit hexa core SoC of the LG G4 is said to have four ARM Cortex A53 cores and two ARM Cortex A57 cores, along with the Adreno 418 GPU for gaming and other purposes. In case you’re wondering, this is the Snapdragon 808 processor from Qualcomm. LG seems to have reserved the Snapdragon 810 for its G Flex 2 and rumoured G Note smartphones, say reports.

LG had recently announced its new G Flex 2 smartphone along with the LG Watch Urbane smartwatch in India, at the LG Tech Show held in Delhi. The company also brought its 5K 105 inch television to the country at the same event. The LG G4 should also be announced in India by late April or early May.

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South Korea maintains highest internet speed of 22.2 Mbps : Akamai

Cloud services provider Akamai has published its State of the Internet report, revealing the top 10 countries with highest Internet speeds.Broadband speeds around the world have gone up by 20 percent year-on-year, while mobile data traffic has grown by 54 percent in the last year, says a recent report by Akamai, an US-based cloud services provider.

Akamai has published its latest State of the Internet report, which reveals that over the last year average internet connection speeds increased in 132 countries. South Korea still boasts of the fastest connections in the world with an average speed of 22.2 Mbps. Hong Kong followed by Japan were in second and third place, with average internet speeds of 16.8Mbps and 15.2Mbps respectively. Sweden was fourth with Internet speeds of 14.6 Mbps followed by Switzerland with 14.5 Mbps speed.

Hong Kong peak connection speeds were even higher than South Korea at 87.7Mbps on average, followed by Singapore with 84Mbps peak speeds and South Korea at 75.4Mbps.Overall, the global average internet connection speed rose a nominal 0.7% quarter-over-quarter to 4.5 Mbps, says the report. India, which has reportedly overtaken US as the world's second biggest internet nation, recorded peak internet speed at 14.5 Mbps and the average connection speed was 2.0 Mbps, with a growth of 2.1% quarter-over-quarter and 28% year-on-year.

David Belson, editor of the report stated, "Over the course of 2014, we've seen healthy global growth across all of our key metrics for Internet connectivity, broadband adoption and 4K readiness. The positive trends make an interesting contrast to a recent study that found 4.4 billion people around the world do not go online, indicating a strong need for continued efforts to improve and de

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 815 could be based on quad Cortex A72 and Cortex A53 cores

Fresh rumors about the next-gen Qualcomm Snapdragon 815 SoC point at big.LITTLE combination of quad Cortex A72 and Cortex A53 cores.The upcoming Snapdragon 815 will be similar to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 620 which is already launched, with quad-core Cortex A72 and A53 cores using the favorite big.LITTLE technique. According to reports, the processor will have the next generation Qualcomm Adreno GPU and will be manufactured using the new FinFet process.

Sources stated that Qualcomm may tweak the cores to boost performance and will have all the features that you can expect from a top-end Snapdragon 800 series chipset. Other rumored specifications of the 815 SoC indicate that it would include LDDR4 RAM and MDM9X55 LTE-A Cat.10 modem.Earlier details had emerged that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset was overheating and a big customer had dropped the processor due to issues.

Qualcomm has reportedly solved the issue and had recent conducted a test internally that shows that the Snapdragon 815 runs cooler than both the Qualcomm 810 and Qualcomm 801 chipsets.Sources state that Qualcomm has delayed the launch of Snapdragon 815 mainly because the company doesn’t want to hurt the sales of the 810 powered smartphones in the market such as the HTC One M9, LG G Flex 2, LG G4, etc.

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Asus Zenfone 2 coming to India in last week of April

Concrete reports of when the Asus Zenfone 2 will come to India are finally available. The company has announced that the Zenfone 2 will be coming to India in the last week of April, although a date hasn’t been provided yet. The device has been much talked about since it was first unveiled at the CES 2015 in Las Vegas, back in January this year.

That said, while Asus has confirmed that the Zenfone 2 will be coming to India at the above mentioned time, it hasn’t said if both the 4GB and 2GB RAM variants will be launched together. Earlier, in an interview with Peter Chang, Region Head for Asus, we had learned that the Zenfone 2 would be available in ‘different skews’. Rece
The Zenfone 2 was earlier said to be launching on April 13, but the company had rubbished those rumours. Now, Asus has givent reports though have claimed that the variant with 4GB RAM will indeed be available.
n an official confirmation on the phone’s release date in India.

The Asus Zenfone 2 is the first smartphone to come with 4GB of RAM and runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box. The phone will presumably take the vacant position of Asus’ flagship smartphone, joining the likes of the Zenfone C, Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 6.

Further, the Zenfone 2 runs on the 2.3 GHz Intel Z3580 SoC and has a 13MP rear and 5MP front camera. It also has a 5.5 inch 1080p display along with with 16/32/64GB internal storage options.

Asus has done well with its Zenfone line of smartphones, especially the Zenfone 5. We recently asked for your take on the company’s Zenfone 5 and got a very good response for the device. The Zenfone 2 should be an improvement on the Taiwanese company’s earlier devices, being much more powerful than all of them.

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