How well is the Galaxy S6 selling for Samsung? Pretty well… but nowhere near as well as Apple’s iPhone 6. Counterpoint Research released new data on Tuesday suggesting that while the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge were together outselling last year’s Galaxy S5, they still trailed both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in monthly sales in April 2015… despite the fact that Apple’s newest iPhones had been out for more than six months at that point.
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Samsung’s Galaxy S6 edge is my favorite Android phone. People who don’t appreciate design or differentiation will tell you that the edge display is silly or useless, but more discerning smartphone users want something beautiful that separates them from the pack. And of course, the Galaxy S6 edge can walk the walk as well as it talks the talk, as benchmark performance tests have repeatedly shown that the S6 and S6 edge are the most powerful smartphones on the market.
As it turns out though, there may be a bigger, better version of the Galaxy S6 edge on the horizon.
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Samsung’s marketing team is normally first rate but every once in a while they produce an ad that’s… baffling. Not as baffling as HTC’s godawful Robert Downey Jr. ads, mind you, but baffling nonetheless. For example, its new “GIF-powered” ad features a woman unboxing the Galaxy S6 and then using it to make lots and lots of GIFs for no apparent reason. It seems to be a Samsung ad that’s aimed exclusively at teenage girls, although we’d be wary of letting them watch the ad if they’re prone to having seizures.
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Leaked a few days ago, Windows 10 prices have already been confirmed just as Microsoft started taking reservations for the free updates.
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An undercover operation conducted by Homeland Security Red Teams revealed that TSA security checks are far from working like they’re supposed to, with airport officials failing to discover mock explosives and banned weapons in 95% of the trials.
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Northern California’s largest all Ford event now has drag racing, autocross and a car show.
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No matter how bad you mess something up, you’ll probably never screw up anything as badly as Jay Z and company have screwed up the launch of Tidal. Last week, we saw reports saying that Tidal was in danger of losing the rights to stream artists from Sony’s catalog — including the songs of Jay Z’s wife and flagship Tidal artist Beyoncé — unless it forked over a big advance that the company was having trouble finding money to pay. Music Business News has filled in some more of the details on this story and it looks like Tidal still hasn’t come up with the cash to pay off Sony.
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Intelligence agencies in the U.S. won’t be able to use some of their highly sophisticated spying programs on Americans as easily as before, as certain portions of the Patriot Act have just expired on Sunday just before midnight, after the U.S. Senate decided not to extend them.
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Forget about the gargantuan screens of today’s modern smartphones, if you want to play video games on a mega screen, you’ve got to check out the Game Boy XXL.
As the name implies, Game Boy XXL is a fully functional and absolutely gigantic Game Boy that can play all of your favorite Game Boy games of yore, from Tetris to Dr. Mario and everything in between. Even better, because the device is one gigantic emulator (powered by software from the retropie project), it can also play ROMs from other console systems, including the original NES, Atari, and Sega.
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Last week, we brought you word of an incredibly cool hidden Android M feature: Multi-window support that will let you have two apps open at once side by side. However, Android Police has been playing around with this new feature and has found that Google has kept it hidden for a reason — namely, because it needs a lot more work.
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