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Samsung's Wallet application was launched on Tuesday at the MWC show in Barcelona and joins Apple and Google in the market of electronic archiving and scanning tickets, membership cards and discount coupon from a smart phone. This presentation comes just two days after Samsung announced that it has entered into a global agreement with Visa which will integrate the Visa payWave application on their mobile devices that support NFC technology.

Although every smartphone has some drawbacks, according to test results made by FixYa; Apple's smartphone has the least of them. Apple's device therefore beat Samsung, Nokia and Motorola on FixYa reliability test based on the 7225 trouble tickets received from users and information company StatCounter's market share.

The screenshot below shows the results of NenaMark2 benchmark that was performed on a device named Samsung SCH-I545. Connoisseurs of these benchmarks will know that the Galaxy S III arrived on the market labeled SCH-I535, so this is for all lovers of rumors and leaked information on the Internet more than clear evidence of how the device labeled SCH-I545 indicates that it is actually the new Galaxy S IV.

Last month, LG unveiled the Optimus Pro G for the Japanese market. It is a smartphone with a five inch diagonal which screen comes with a resolution of 1,920x1,080 pixels. It was promising device, but now they decided to improve it a bit.

The web portal Gizchina have released a few interesting pictures that are supposed to be from a Foxconn factory (probably in China). These photos allegedly show some mobile devices that could possibly be an iPhone 5S. It looks pretty much the same as the iPhone 5 which is expected and furthers the rumors that it will be just a slight improvement regarding hardware specs.

Many of us are eagerly await the launch of Samsung's next top model from the Galaxy S line, called as expected the Galaxy S IV. Although it is evident that the launch of this device will come soon; the site SamMobile claim to know the exact date; from unofficial sources, of course, familiar with the plans of the company. [The launch of the S IV was talked about last year and many thought that Samsung would shot it off at CES 2013 and not wait until after the Mobile World Congress – Ed]

If you thought that Apple invented the slide-to-unlock move that unlocks the display of cell phones and portable devices, you're not alone. Until recently the U.S. Patent Office also thought so, but now they have reconsidered. According to the latest decision, the patent belongs to Micron and it is described as a “system and method for managing and accessing electronic device.”

ZTE has unveiled a tablet bearing the mark V81. It is a device based on Android with an eight inch diagonal screen and a 4:3 aspect ratio. It looks like they won’t let Samsung be the only major company with an 8 inch tablet on the market.

If you never thought that Copyright was out of hand then you might be interested to know that Copyright laws are being use to stomp on your right as a consumer to choose the mobile carrier you want and take any devices that you might own with you. The mobile phone industry (hand in hand with the carriers) is trying to put the baseband locks on a phone into the realm of copyrighted material. The way they are doing this is by claiming that the locks protecting the baseband are the same as those found on a DVD or Blu-ray disk. Since they have convinced the US lawmakers that this is so we now find that unlocking your phone (any phone) is illegal and punishable by a minimum of $2,500.

Huawei finally decided to enter the high end smartphone market. After the Ascend P1 made fairly good success they are now bringing something more powerful to compete with Galaxy S3, iPhone 5 and company.