Do you wish you had an easy way to quickly access all of your email accounts on your Android phone in one place, whether they’re Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo? Well you’re in luck — Google has now made the stock Email application that you find on its own Nexus phones available to download for free. The app supports all IMAP, POP3 and Exchange accounts, so it’s a great way for you to get all your emails on your phone without having to log into separate web portals or use separate apps. You can download the app from Google Play right now, although it won’t work on the HTC One (M7) or the Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition.

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If there’s one reason to remember the Philips W6618 Android phone, it’s the amazing 5,300 mAh battery it packs under the hood — although the handset itself isn’t the 2014 flagship smartphone you’d like to buy. Instead, it’s an otherwise lackluster mid-range device. However, there’s now another Android beast that smartphone buyers should check out, and this one sports high-end specs on top of a positively gigantic battery.

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You might not have been able to attend E3 2014, but you can now watch one of the best demos available on the show floor. In the latest episode of Kojami Station, Hideo Kojima and a few members of his team sat down to run through the 30 minute demo of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain that we saw at E3, complete with all the horse riding, guard neutralizing and sheep capturing you missed out on last week.

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BlackBerry has been showing some much needed signs of life lately and now the company is preparing to release the devices that it hopes will win you back from iOS and Android. CrackBerry has snapped some pictures of two new devices that BlackBerry CEO John Chen showed off at the company’s shareholders meeting on Thursday: The BlackBerry Classic and the BlackBerry Passport.

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Anxious to get that full Start menu back? Well, you may have a while to wait for that but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other good Windows 8.1 updates coming in the near future. Neowin’s sources say that the next major update to Windows 8.1, which will likely be called Windows 8.1 Update 2, is likely coming in either August or September. This lines up with earlier reports we’ve read about the next major Windows update coming in late summer, although it seems that Microsoft has now scrapped its original plans to bring back the Start menu with the next release.

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Last month, we combed through the Moto 360 design competition in order to find a few concepts worth highlighting. With the Design Face-Off, Motorola gave its fans a chance to show off their own vision of Android Wear on the upcoming smartwatch, competing for the grand prize of a free Moto 360.

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Smartphone theft has been a growing problem in recent years but apparently a key feature that Apple introduced last year is helping to stop it dead in its tracks. The New York Times reports that law enforcement officials in London, New York and San Francisco have all credited the addition of the Activation Lock feature in iOS 7 with leading to a sharp drop in smartphone thefts in their cities. In all, police found that iPhone robberies dropped by 38% in San Francisco and by 24% in London in the six months after Apple introduced the new feature.

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Shares of HTC stock have lost 90% of their value since hitting an all-time high in 2011. But that’s not why investors are angry. The struggling smartphone vendor’s revenue has continued to plummet in 2014, even after it launched its new HTC One (M8) flagship phone. But that’s also not why investors are angry. According to a report on Thursday from The Wall Street Journal, investors at HTC’s shareholder meeting were fuming… because HTC wouldn’t give them free phones.

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Halfbrick is one of the most consistently great iOS game developers in the industry, so you’d be foolish to pass up on this limited time offer. As of this week, every Halfbrick game has gone temporarily free on the App Store, from the classic Fruit Ninja to the recently released Colossatron. The other free titles include Shrek crossover Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots, endless runner Monster Dash, the sea creature-tossing Fish Out Of Water and the bullet-riddled Age of Zombies.

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