On Thursday morning at a live Unpacked event in New York City, Samsung unveiled its latest slate of phablets: the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 edge+. These two large devices will supplement the S6 and S6 edge which released in the spring, giving Samsung a sizable lineup to stock on store shelves over the holiday season.
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Let’s just begin with the conclusion: Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 5 is the best Android phablet the world has ever seen. The hardware is exquisite, the software is improved in every way compared to last year’s model, and the newly enhanced S Pen stylus makes it remarkably easy to be productive.
And now, the problem: I’m not sure any of that will matter when it comes to stopping Samsung’s current sales decline.
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The Galaxy S6 edge is a curious phone. Some people don’t understand why Samsung even released the handset to begin with, so I did my best to explain it in a recent article. Long story short, the S6 edge offers differentiation in a market full of boring phone designs that look nearly identical. Samsung also enjoys wider margins with the edge, which is crucial since Samsung’s smartphone margins are quite low.
According to Samsung, demand for the Galaxy S6 edge was so strong that the company couldn’t even build the phone fast enough to keep up with demand. Curiously, however, the company dropped prices on the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge right after it made that claim.
For Samsung’s sake, I hope that demand was indeed strong, because the company now plans to release what is essentially the same exact phone, but a bit bigger.
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It’s not exactly a secret at this point: Samsung is about to unveil its brand new Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ phablets. The company went back to the drawing board with its Galaxy S lineup earlier this year and designed the Galaxy S6 from scratch. Well, OK, so maybe it had a little inspiration. But the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge marked the first time Samsung launched phones with sleek designs and premium materials to match their class-leading displays and killer performance.
Now, its time to see if Samsung plans to be just as original with this year’s flagship phablets as it was with its flagship smartphones.
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Good morning, free iPhone app fans! Today we’ve compiled a list of eight terrific paid iOS apps that would normally cost you a total of $18 but that are completely free to download right now for a limited time. Check them out below!
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Social networks like Twitter and Facebook are often used for marketing, and many accounts hold contests to generate buzz around a product or event. Anyone can enter them and win the prizes, but one man took it upon himself to create a Twitter bot that would automatically enter every contest it could find, without raising any flags.
The robot entered 165,000 contests over the course of nine months, and it won prizes 1,000 of them.
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One of the main concerns with Microsoft’s Windows 10 platform concerns privacy. The operating system has various features that need to access your private data to work properly. At the same time, Microsoft wants to deliver you better Bing search results and ads. In its defense, the company makes it clear in its terms of service that it’s tracking you, and there are ways to stop all the tracking without compromising your Windows 10 experience. But what if the privacy-infringing settings you thought you just turned off aren’t off?
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As more unofficial information about Google’s rumored 2015 Nexus devices hits the web, designers are imagining what the next Nexus handset might look like. That’s exactly what one Reddit user did with the new LG Nexus 5, creating a series of images based on previous 3D renders and recently leaked information.
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Come on, Apple. Are you really doing this to us again? A purported iPhone 6s benchmark posted by blog Ringer Blue Men shows that the new device only has 1GB of RAM, or just as much as last year’s iPhone 6 had. If accurate, this would be a major disappointment.
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