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| Why do you need a rotating bezel on a smartwatch when it has a touch screen and two buttons? That's the question we asked ourselves before picking up Samsung's Gear S2 (available in early October). But when we spun the thing around, the design started to make sense. Instead of swiping on forever, as Android Wear requires, you can turn the dial on this Tizen-powered watch (which works with any Android 4.4 or newer phone) to check notifications, launch widgets or change watch faces. The Gear S2 doesn't have a price or launch date yet, but based on our hands-on time with the smartwatch, it's clear that Samsung is stepping out of Android Wear's shadow in mostly a good way.
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| A true Apple Watch challenger, a smartphone with a jaw-dropping 4K screen and a water-cooled gaming laptop were among the exciting innovations at this year's IFA 2015 event in Berlin.
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| The smartphone display race has a new resolution leader. The Sony Xperia Z5 offers a powerful, versatile camera, but even more noteworthy is that one version has a full 4K display: a first for a smartphone.
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| | If the Galaxy S6 Edge proved one thing, it's that phone shoppers are willing to pay more for a sleeker design. In fact, Samsung couldn't make enough of them initially to meet demand. Now there's a bigger version in the S6 Edge Plus ($780 for 32GB version on T-Mobile, or $32.50 per month), which is both a direct competitor to the iPhone 6 Plus ($750) and an alternative to the new productivity-focused Galaxy Note 5 ($700). Samsung's pricey 5.7-inch phablet adds an extra gig of RAM for more performance and makes the Edge screen more practical, but let's be honest – that's not why you'll really want this phone.
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