Back in December last year, Samsung said that its mobile payments service Samsung Pay will launch in China “as soon as early 2016”. Now, the South Korean company has announced that the launch will happen in the month of March, although no specific date was mentioned.

The China launch will be followed by rollout in Australia, Brazil, Singapore, Spain and, the UK later this year. The company has also added Canada to the launch roadmap. For those who missed, recently-leaked promotion material revealed that the service will also be available in Russia soon.

Samsung also revealed that around five million registered Samsung Pay users processed over 500 million dollars in the first six months. The mobile payments service is currently available in the company’s home country as well as the United…

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Back in October last year, Motorola announced a list of devices that the company said will receive the Android Lollipop update. The list included the DROID Ultra/Mini/Maxx. However, it has now been announced that these handsets won’t be receiving the update.

The announcement was made by Motorola’s senior director of software product management David Schuster on Google+. “We know how important software upgrades are to our customers, and we’re very sorry that we are unable to provide the upgrade,” he said in the post.

Schuster, however, said that the company is compensating for this by offering DROID Ultra/Mini/Maxx users discounts on the Droid Turbo 2 and Maxx 2 – the former will be available for $524 ($100 off), while the latter will cost $334 ($50 off).

The offer expires on Thursday, May 19, and the promo code must be redeemed by Thursday, June 2. For more details, head to the Source 2 link below.

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Naturally, just a few days before the unpacked event, the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge pose for many more angles and shots for our eyes to feast upon.

Moreover, the physical appearance of the Galaxy S7 is not too different from its predecessor. The curves that the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge make are more pronounced and round than those of the S6 or iPhone.

The bump has definitely shown changes with some shrinkage. As well, a new rumor has surfaced pertaining its still a little difficult to confirm a possible drop in the pixel count of the camera sensor from the S6’s 16MP camera to a possible 12.1MP.

Head over to the source link at Android Headlines to check out the butt-load of photos of the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge.

There are close-ups of the camera setup, all 4 edges, front, rear, and some views of the software information found on the Galaxy S7. There are also shots of the phone next to a ruler to better gage the actual size.

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Facebook’s Messenger app for Android has been updated to officially allow users to manage more than one chatting account.

Facebook had been undergoing testing for a bunch of new features in the past couple of months, with some of these features slowly pushed out to few users around the world.

Facebook wants families to be able to potentially be able to use Facebook Messenger while sharing the same device. Switching between accounts will require the password of the account you are switching to so there’s no need to worry about your housemates seeing your messages from a shared device.

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