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IN THIS ISSUE DAY ONE • MONDAY 2ND MARCH

ANALYSIS: 4G

GSMA INTELLIGENCE CLAIMS THERE WERE HALF A BILLION 4G-LTE
CONNECTIONS ACROSS 350 NETWORKS WORLDWIDE IN 2014.
PAGE 36

ANALYSIS: SMARTPHONES

FROM FEATURE PHONES TO SMARTPHONES, GSMA INTELLIGENCE
TRACKS THE ROAD AHEAD. PAGE 38

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS SHANGHAI FEATURE

JOSEPH WARING PREVIEWS THE GSMA’S BIG JULY SHOW
TARGETING THE WORLD’S LARGEST MOBILE MARKET. PAGE 58

Samsung Mozilla teams

unveils Galaxy with operators
S6 smartphones on new Firefox
device range

and Samsung Pay

By Steve Costello acknowledged in a statement. processors for the flagship devices in supported are both WPC- and PMA- By Richard Handford
“By listening to our customers, favour of its own silicon, the company certified wireless charging technology.
Samsung unveiled its latest said the S6 line features “the world’s Mozilla has lined up with
flagship devices at an event and learning from both our success first 14nm mobile processor with 64- Also announced was the anticipated leading operators KDDI,
here in Barcelona last night, and mis-steps, we continuously bit platform, new LPDDR4 memory Samsung Pay service, to rival Apple LG U+, Telefonica and
with its Galaxy S6 joined by Galaxy push forward new technologies and system and UFS 2.0 flash memory”, Pay, which was unveiled by the Verizon Wireless on what it’s
S6 edge – a smartphone with a ideas,” said JK Shin, CEO and head providing higher performance and iPhone-maker late last year. billing as a new category of
curved display on both sides. of the IT & Mobile Communications enhanced memory speed with lower Firefox OS phones, with a planned
division at the company. power consumption. Set for launch in the US during the launch date of 2016.
The “dual flagship” approach second half of 2015, the company Cont. on P3 f
follows September’s unveiling of the Among the features the company The smartphones are also built said that it will be “compatible with
vendor’s Note 4 and Note Edge highlighted were “premium device on an upgraded version of more locations than any competing
phablets, the latter of which features aesthetics”, as the company looks Samsung’s KNOX secure mobile offering in a single application.”
a curved screen on one side. to defend its position in the high- platform, “offering defence-grade
end segment against the ever- features for real-time protection Following Samsung’s recent
While remaining the dominant strong Apple and its iPhone line. from potential malicious attacks”. acquisition of LoopPay, the service
player in the Android space, will support Magnetic Secure
Samsung did not have an easy ride Following well-documented news Both devices feature a 5.1-inch Transmission (MST) technology as
in 2014 – something the company that Samsung had dropped quad-HD (2560x1440) screen, 16MP well as the NFC technology
Qualcomm as a supplier of main and 5MP front-facing cameras, supported by Apple Pay.
and come with 32GB, 64GB and
128GB storage options. Also This, Samsung said, will make it
“device, merchant and card issuer
agnostic”.

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