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March 1, 2015, 2:15 PM

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Meet The New Samsung Galaxy S6 And S6 Edge, Arriving April 10 — Samsung has indeed revealed its new flagship smartphone today, but there are actually two: The Galaxy S6, and the Galaxy S6 edge. The company's latest premier smartphones are mostly similar on the inside …

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Samsung bundles Microsoft apps on its new Galaxy S6

More: Android Authority and Android Police

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Samsung Pay Takes On Apple Pay This Summer With LoopPay's MST Tech

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Aaron Souppouris / Engadget:

Samsung announces updated Gear VR headset for Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge

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Vlad Savov / The Verge:

HTC Grip is iOS and Android compatible, GPS enabled fitness tracker developed in partnership with Under Armour and available for $199 this spring — HTC announces Grip, its first wearable fitness tracker — The wait for HTC's first wearable device has come to an end …

More: BetaNews, Android Police, Engadget, Android Authority, The Next Web, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, BGR, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal and ShinyShiny

Chris Hall / Pocket-lint:

HTC One M9 hands-on: excels in design, improved specs, may look too much like its predecessor

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Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid:

HTC announces One M9 with 5" 1080p display, 20MP back and 4MP UltraPixel front camera, Snapdragon 810 CPU, 3GB of RAM, available mid-March

More: Android Police, The Verge, Engadget and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @fjeronimo

Chris Hall / Pocket-lint:

HTC partners with Valve to launch Vive VR headset and VR Controllers by the end of this year

More: PC World, The Next Web, The Verge, USA Today, Engadget, GeekWire, CNET, BBC, Phandroid and Yahoo Tech

Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

Apple Watch will have low energy Power Reserve mode that will display only time — Apple's New Job: Selling a Smartwatch to an Uninterested Public — SAN FRANCISCO — For Apple, the hard part — making a smartwatch — is nearly over. — Soon it will be time for the harder part …

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CNET:

Acer announces Liquid M220, a €79 Windows Phone coming to select European markets in April with a 4" display and 1.2GHz dual-core CPU — Acer's Liquid M220 offers Windows Phone on a budget (hands-on) — If you're curious about Windows Phone but don't want to spend much to check it out …

Aaron Souppouris / Engadget:

Acer announces €79 fitness tracker Liquid Leap+ with 1" OLED touchscreen and changeable straps, compatible with iOS, Android, and Windows Phone — Acer wants to sell you a touchscreen fitness tracker for less than $90 — This is Acer's latest play for your wrist, the Liquid Leap+.

More: Gigaom, Re/code, Electronista, Ubergizmo, PhoneArena, The Wearable Stuff, Expert Reviews, ShinyShiny, Android Authority and TechnoBuffalo

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Huawei launches Talkband B2 activity tracker and N1 earbud hybrid — Huawei has today announced two new wearable devices, the B2 and N1, just ahead of the start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. — The B2 is the successor to last year's B1 activity tracker, and comes with upgraded functionality and 6-axis tracking.

CNET:

Huawei Watch unveiled at MWC, first Android Wear watch with a sapphire crystal display — Huawei on Sunday announced a new premium Android Wear watch at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Huawei Watch is the first Android Wear watch that features a scratch-proof sapphire crystal display.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, BBC, GSMArena.com, Liliputing, Engadget, Mobile News Online, Technology Personalized, What Hi-Fi?, Connected Digital World, stuff.tv, ShinyShiny, Thai Tech, The Wearable Stuff and AndroidHeadlines.com

Julian Sanchez / Cato Institute:

NSA Director fails to understand the dangerous long-term consequences of crypto backdoors in real world software — What NSA Director Mike Rogers Doesn't Get About Encryption — At a New America Foundation conference on cybersecurity Monday, NSA Director Mike Rogers gave an interview that …

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Researchers rate backdoors to cryptographic systems based on effectiveness, detectability, ease of use, and other factors

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Hands-on with WebOS-based LG Watch Urbane LTE and Android Wear-based LG Watch Urbane — Our first look at LG's new webOS and Android Wear smartwatches — LG has kicked off Mobile World Congress this Sunday morning in Barcelona by showing off its two Watch Urbane smartwatches for the first time.

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Ben Woods / The Next Web:

ZTE launches Grand S3 with 5.5″ 1080p display and Eyeprint ID biometric security — ZTE has today lifted the lid on its latest flagship handset to hit the market, and this time around it comes with an upgraded screen and better camera capabilities. — Key specs of the device include …

More: PC World and CNET

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Mozilla bringing Firefox OS to flip phones and sliders, coming to US via Verizon in 2016 — Mozilla to open first-world front in Firefox OS war — A partnership with Verizon and other carriers is aimed at bringing the browser-based operating system to wealthy countries.

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, InfoWorld and The Mozilla Blog

Jonathan Libov / Whoops:

How innovations in messaging interfaces could fundamentally improve how we interact with computers — Futures of text — A review of all the current innovation in text as a medium — When the weather is bad I take a bus to work. I'm forever grateful to the person at the bus stop …

More: YourStory.com. Tweets: @cdixon, @codinghorror, @om and @hunterwalk

Mark Scott / New York Times:

The Netherlands' two-year-old net neutrality rules provide a good case study for the US — Dutch Offer Preview of Net Neutrality — THE HAGUE — When Bruno Leenders takes the 50-minute train ride to Amsterdam, he likes to stream blues and funk music through his smartphone.

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