A new report from Bloomberg has reported that Samsung Pay is being adopted very quickly compared to Apple Pay did when it first launched. “Samsung has signed up 5 million users and processed more than $500 million in transactions since debuting in the U.S. in September.”

Samsung has differentiated itself from the other mobile payment solutions with its acquisition of Loop Pay. This technology simulates the magnetic strip on a credit card and does not require an NFC terminal.

Basically, Samsung Pay is accepted anywhere a regular card swipe can be accepted which dramatically increases the number of merchants who accept Samsung Pay.

In Samsung’s latest ad, actor and comedian Hannibal Buress takes his Galaxy phone to a Deli in New York City, (a city with many places that only accept cash and barely even take credit cards) he baffles employees in the deli when he taps his phone and the card goes through.

As said in the report, there has to be something better for the consumer to embrace mobile payments vs traditional cash and credit card transactions made with plastic cards. Something really needs to take the mobile payment industry by storm in order to see an even wider adoption.

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The XDA community is always hard at work. From reviving older phones to run the latest Android versions to providing the most feature-rich ROMs for all kinds of phones to building a bounty fund for rooting Verizon devices, XDA is home to some of the best Android developers and ROM builders for our (free) flashing pleasure.

Mokee ROM for the Galaxy S5 has finally added support for the built-in fingerprint scanner on an AOSP ROM nonetheless.

The news is that Cyanogenmod, among the biggest names in aftermarket ROMs, will include fingerprint scanner support on future Cyanogenmod 13 nightlies for the Galaxy S5 thanks to the Mokee ROM developers.

For those of you who like to flash your Galaxy S5, expect to see more AOSP ROMs adopting this scanner support.

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If you hadn’t known it before, the Huawei Watch has a built in speaker that has been completely ignored for a long time, even the company did not acknowledge its existence when the smart watch was first released.

Thanks to a new update for the watch itself, the Huawei Watch will be updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow where the internal speaker will be enabled on Huawei’s watch to allow users to make and receive calls with audio routed directly through the watch.

Over the next few days, users should start seeing the update pop up on their Huawei Watches.

The new update brings new support for sending messages through the watch for WhatsApp, WeChat, Viber, Telegram, and Nextplus, new gestures for navigating the watch, battery life improvements, Ability to play sounds on watches with speakers, and more language options in Mandarin, Cantonese, Indonesian, Polish, Dutch and Thai.

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