

HTC also revealed what could prove the surprise package of this year’s MWC conference: the HTC Vive, a virtual reality headset developed in conjunction with Valve Software. You can read our first impressions of the HTC One M9 in our hands-on review, and find out how it stacks up against the Samsung Galaxy S6 in our head-to-head versus piece.

Oh, and the brand new Snapdragon 810 processor, of course. It’s evolution rather the revolution, in other words – the biggest departure seems to be the replacement of the M8’s 4MP UltraPixel camera with a more traditional 20MP snapper. The third iteration of the One, it sports the same familiar aluminium unibody exterior as its predecessors and overall seems to be a fine-tuning of last year’s M8. HTC’s MWC2015 kicked off with the unveiling of its new top-of-the-range smartphone, the long-predicted HTC One M9.
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And second, it unveiled Samsung Pay, a system which will allow Samsung device users to make payments using NFC and fingerprint verification – and unlike Apple Pay, it’ll work with point-of-sale terminals that are usually compatible only with traditional magnetic strip cards. First, it announced that the Gear VR headset will work with both the S6 and S6 Edge (previously it was only compatible with the Galaxy Note 4), which is good news for virtual reality enthusiasts and Samsung fans. While the new brace of phones was the centrepiece of its launch event, Samsung had a couple of other things to share with the world.

We’ve been hands-on with both phones – check out our thoughts about the Galaxy S6 here and the Galaxy S6 Edge here – and we’ve made a quick list of all the things you should know about them here. The big difference comes in the shape of the phones’ 5.1in 2K Super AMOLED screens: the vanilla S6’s display is flat, while the S6 Edge’s curls around the sides as well as covering the front – a first for a smartphone. The new models share a lot in terms of features and specifications and both outshine their predecessors when it comes to build quality. Because there are two: the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. As expected, Samsung “unpacked” its new flagship smartphone on the day before MWC2015 officially began.
