AppleMagazine - August 21, 2015 USA.pdf

Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge phones,
which are closer in size to the regular iPhone 6,
came out in April.
The Note 5 will cost $696 to $740 without a
contract, depending on the carrier. The Edge
Plus will cost about $75 more. The iPhone 6 Plus
sells for about $750. T-Mobile is throwing in a
year of Netflix with both phones, while Sprint is
giving away a low-end Samsung tablet with a
two-year contract. Advance orders begin in the
U.S. on Thursday.
Samsung Electronics Co. also said its Samsung
Pay mobile payment service will debut in its
home country of South Korea on Aug. 20.
Testing in the U.S. will begin Aug. 25, with a
formal launch on Sept. 28.
Although there’s competition from Apple Pay
and Google’s upcoming Android Pay, Samsung
is hoping its payments system will catch on
with the inclusion of a technology that mimics
the old-school, magnetic signals from creditcard
swipes. That allows it to work with a wider
range of merchants, though it still won’t work
everywhere cards are accepted.
Samsung also teased an upcoming smartwatch,
the Gear S2. It will have a round face, rather
than the rectangular design in Apple Watch
and previous Samsung watches. A video from
Samsung suggests snazzy graphics to rival
Apple Watch. More details will come at the IFA
tech show in Berlin next month.
As for the phones, Samsung is looking to play to
its strengths.
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