The S6 Edge. Photo: Samsung

If you’ve been saving your hard-earned cash in anticipation of the upcoming Samsung S6 Edge, it could be well worth it for its performance alone. Early benchmarks indicate the device will the most powerful smartphone we’ve seen so far.

Motorola’s new Moto E is here, and it ships with Android 5.0 Lollipop pre-installed for under $100. Adopters also get fairly decent specifications for such an affordable price tag, including a Snapdragon 200 processor and 1GB of RAM.

Samsung may be beating a tactical retreat. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac

Things aren’t looking too rosy for Samsung at the moment. Having seen profits slip due to its falling mobile sales, the flailing South Korean tech giant is reportedly considering throwing in the towel altogether in Japan, where it’s struggling more than elsewhere.

Samsung currently represents a miniscule 4 percent of the Japanese smartphone market, which puts it in sixth place. According to sources with Samsung, staying in Japan is actually losing rather than gaining the company money.

While Samsung hasn’t traditionally been a top-seller in Japan, here in 2015 it’s doing worse than ever: with the company’s favorite metric, marketshare, shrinking from 17 percent two years ago to low single digits today.

Samsung and Microsoft have finally ended their contract dispute. Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Samsung today released a brief press release to announce that its contract dispute with Microsoft has ended in the U.S. Court. 

LG’s answer to Gear VR will cost $200 less. Photo: LG

Need a reason to pick LG over Samsung when buying your next smartphone? Here’s a great one.

While Samsung will charge you $200 for its Gear VR add-on for the Galaxy Note 4, LG is set to give all G3 buyers its new virtual reality headset free of charge. The device will be based on the blueprint for Google Cardboard, but it will be built to last using plastic.