It started with Google Wallet which then turned into Android Pay and then it was facing competition from Apple Pay but then Samsung wanted to get in with the action, so it bought a startup and released Samsung Pay and then LG had to give mobile payments a try because
if chaebol number one can do it, why not number two, but then hold on a second, Walmart's here to be its own beacon and now what, Target?
Not exact matches
That will obviously not happen, but
if Samsung delays in - screen fingerprint recognition tech adoption, there's nothing holding the
chaebol back from releasing the Note 9 «as early as July or August.»
So far, we've only seen two stars in the
chaebol's Galaxy sport so - called «Infinity Displays» (three,
if you want to get technical), both crazy expensive and uncompromising in terms of overall specs.
Even
if the physical home button is out of the equation, the
chaebol could opt for a similarly «conventional» scanner positioned on the back of the dual - curved next - gen flagship phone.
One of the latest whispers we got was that the
chaebol was tracking down how its rival's spring flagship, the LG G6, performed in the market to see
if it needed to rush sales.
If that wasn't bad enough, the same East Asian publication says Apple will most likely succeed in implementing the technology on the iPhone 8 this fall, which isn't going to reflect well on the
chaebol's reputation or that of high - profile partners like CrucialTec, the world's largest manufacturer of optical trackpad mobile input devices.
If you've been following the news, rumors and conflicting recent media reports on LG's next high - end smartphone release, you may worry the name of the
chaebol's upgraded V30 will be a bit of a head - scratcher.
First shipments should be moving to mailboxes today,
if not already and the
chaebol is reminding us that you should probably buy some accessories for that new $ 800 + phablet you're getting.