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Samsung Announces Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge and Samsung Pay
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He was referring to the sides and the bottom if you watched the video. I'm sorry, but it's a blatant copy of of the iPhone in this regard, they even have the charging port and speakers and headphone sockets in the same locations
Ok. Nice eye roll. We can also discount the fact that Samsung has made similar rounded edges/sides in the past.
But ultimately - who cares? I guess I'm not one that takes things like the tech industry copying/borrowing/getting inspired/whatever-you-want-to-call it personally and just buy the device that will get MY job done.
hahaha seriously
the apple galaxy s6.. oh wait its samsung... oops my bad i couldn't tell, round edges glass back, no removable battery no sd card slot, finger print scanner, samsung pay... guess its like they say if you can't beat them copy them. the edge seems more gimmick then useful but at least its something different however when they showed the black s6 on the table i was hard pressed to notice it wasn't a iPhone 6...
the apple galaxy s6.. oh wait its samsung... oops my bad i couldn't tell, round edges glass back, no removable battery no sd card slot, finger print scanner, samsung pay... guess its like they say if you can't beat them copy them. the edge seems more gimmick then useful but at least its something different however when they showed the black s6 on the table i was hard pressed to notice it wasn't a iPhone 6...
Yes, I have chips in about half my cards, but few merchants have turned them on. I think I've done one PIN transaction so far in the U.S. That should change in October when liability shifts to retailers for fraud relating to transactions involving magnetic swipe transactions.
durr...the S5
That's it, it looks just like the older S5. I'm really liking the new ear buds too I wonder if I can buy those separate.
Apologies, I figured we were talking curved display in the sense that this thread pertains to.
Continuum has nothing to do with OS X/iOS Continuity. Read up on it.
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This is what it comes down to in the end. Apple always finds a way to reduce everything to 1 step.
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True Cisco is another very profitable company with billions of cash on hand.
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That's $18 billion in revenue, not profits. I don't see the online ad revenue increasing to $40 billion any time soon. Google's profits are already plateauing, there is not much more space for ads. They still can't figure out a 2nd major profit engine.
If by "elsewhere in the world" you mean the UK and Western Europe, perhaps.
However, according to EMVCo (the backers of Chip & PIN), over 70% of the world's card present transactions are still NOT done using a chip.
That includes 99% of US store transactions, 80% in Asia, 50% in Eastern Europe, 25% in Africa and the Middle East, 17% in Canada and Latin America.
Yes, one could argue that it's all relatively "short" term until everyone goes chip. It's just that "short" means at least a decade or more. So yes, it could benefit people all over the world for quite some time to come, at least wherever there's a magswipe terminal.
Samsung Pay would easily be quicker than Apple Pay in stores like Walmart, CVS, Target, Publix, Best Buy, Ikea, etc.
Ditto at most flea market vendors using headphone jack card swipers.
I.e. places where NFC is turned off or missing altogether.
You gotta be an idiot to buy an iPhone 6 for the same price you can get a Galaxy S6 and it has so much more to offer. But sheeps will be sheeps no doubt.
Actually an iPad charger does speed up the charge that the iPhone 6 can receive. It's fast. It works well with my iPhone 6 Plus.
All those stores you mentioned are adopting
Pay at break-neck speed. Pay is the only mobile payment option currently advertised on TV with credit card companies. I just saw it the other day with a Mastercard commercial.
"Lol"lipop. Lol.
I dread the day Apple moves to 16MP to compete on specs. Hopefully, by the time they do, sensor technology will be far, far ahead of where it is now.
I dread the day Apple moves to 16MP to compete on specs. Hopefully, by the time they do, sensor technology will be far, far ahead of where it is now.
All those stores you mentioned are adopting
It's one thing to say that Apple Pay is adopting at break-neck speed but it impressive that Samsung can say over 90% right now.
All those stores you mentioned are adopting
All those stores are part of the MCX group, which have turned off their NFC readers. Only magnetic swipes will work at this time.
Not sure why anyone's trying to compare Samsung's and Apple's wallets anyway. Neither one runs on the other one's devices, so the two wallets don't directly compete.
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Apple didn't rush anything, Apple pay is exactly what they wanted it to be and it's more than what samsung mobile payments can do. Apple pay isn't just about mobile payments, it's about in app and website payments too.
They are nailing their own coffin!
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Ya thats true.
But in this particular case i don't think Samsung has copied instead they aligned themselves to the trend, which everybody does, even Apple (though in Apple's case they set the trend in most of the things). If one has finger print sensor other will have it, i don't think its copying, its aligning to the current trend requirement. Same will happened with 64bit processors, then pressure sensitive screen and so on...
I love how when apple named everything iThis and iThat. Samsung named everything sThis and sThat. Now that new Apple products are being named Apple this and that Samsung is now doing th same.
I hope they introduce newer technology rather then just increase the megapixel. Saw the patent about moving lens inside a mobile device, that can be used for optical zoom in the phone. I would rather appreciate that instead of 16 Megapixel, if they give both i'll be more happy.