Samsung Pay may soon spread as promised to lower-end devices

Samsung’s pretty satisfied with its new mobile payments system that it’s worked hard at putting together. Money’s been trading hands at a good clip. The company’s Injong Rhee has been rallying retail support in the US. But one of the big stumbling blocks that appears in contrast with

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HTC One A9 leaked as mid-ranger with Snapdragon 617, not Helio X20

The slow burn and churn at HTC has produced a series of rather disappointing results seemingly for both the consumer and, as the effect to the cause, the company itself. This so-called “Aero” project that CEO Cher Wang has been touting as the autumn “hero” (no, not that Hero) to save the Taiwanese OEM from ...

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LeTV claims it has sold one million smartphones faster than any other new OEM

Achievements with caveats come quite often in this industry. While not on Apple levels of spectacular, these numbers do look good, though. For comparison, Xiaomi, which kicked into life in 2011, sold 400,000 units on its first year in the market.

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The ASUS ZenFone 2 shouldn’t be six phones

The ASUS ZenFone 2 is the best smartphone in the company’s lineup right now and, arguably, one of the boldest smartphones in the mid-range market. Or, you could say the ASUS ZenFone 2 is a mediocre device that’s trying too hard to be the best in the lower end market. Or, the ASUS ZenFone 2 sounds kinda like the other phones I talked about just now, but somewhere in between.Well, I can say that the ASUS ZenFone 2 is actually all of the above. Our Editorial Director Michael Fisher

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Why do so many smartphone makers seem to be banking on mid-rangers?

I’m a Power User, I always have been. Back in the days of the Apple Newton, the MessagePad 2000 wasn’t enough for me. I had to upgrade it to the 2100 (technically the 2000U, but who’s counting?). My desktop computer is sporting 8 cores (though it’s really only four hyperthreaded cores). Although my Nexus 5 suited me just fine, I had to get the Nexus 6. Generally speaking, whenever you see me I’ll be running the latest and greatest tech. I had always imagined that ...

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