Mobile Nations Weekly: Seven squaredA new iPhone 7 and a Galaxy Note 7 walk into a bar and things get a little heated.
It happens every year — Apple announces a new iPhone and the tech world comes to a halt. This year is was for the iPhone 7 — it's faster, more water resistant, and sporting better cameras than ever before. But it's also not radically different-looking than the previous iPhone and controversially has dropped the as-old-as-time headphone jack. But... it's already selling out in pre-orders world-wide and will doubtless sell in the millions and millions.
The Galaxy Note 7 recall keeps looking worse for Samsung, with the company now advising that owners turn their phones off and return them to the store immediately. Non-exploding replacements are starting to filter out, so hopefully Samsung will be able place this ordeal behind them. Needless to say, the timing couldn't be worse.
But things are burning down everywhere on the Android front — Samsung's closest competitor (in a very literal sense) rol...
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Mobile Nations Weekly: Seven squared
